Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles


The Men's 110 metres hurdles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–8 August.
The qualifying round was notable for who was eliminated. In heat 3, Shamar Sands was in the lead until he hit the sixth hurdle, crashing into the next hurdle and somersaulting into a heap, making him one of three athletes in that heat not to make it to the finish line. In the fifth heat, Aries Merritt ran the fastest qualifying time by far with a 13.07. In the final heat, 2004 gold medalist Liu Xiang reminded viewers of his 2008 performance, failing to clear the first hurdle, and injuring his right achilles. After a minute on the track, Liu got up onto his left leg and hopped off the track. Refusing a wheelchair assist and medical attention, he returned to the track and hopped all the way to the final hurdle. Returning to his assigned lane 4, Liu kissed the top of the tenth hurdle, perhaps signifying the end of his Olympic career. He then hopped across the finish line, where he was assisted off the track by heat winner Andy Turner, Balázs Baji and Jackson Quiñónez.
The semifinal round was again dominated by Merritt running a 12.94. World record holder and defending champion Dayron Robles led Hansle Parchment to the Jamaican national record in 13.14. 13.31 qualified on time.
In the final, Robles and Merritt got the fastest starts but Merritt pulled ahead at hurdle 3, by hurdle 5 Robles was wincing in pain, pushing over the sixth hurdle and holding his leg. Merritt continued to a personal best 12.92 and a.12 win over reigning world champion Jason Richardson. Parchment took another.02 off his national record for the bronze, the rest of the field was not even close, more than a quarter of a second behind.
Merritt moves past Renaldo Nehemiah to become the #7 hurdler of all time.

Competition format

The Men's 110m Hurdles competition consisted of heats, Semifinals and a Final. The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following National record was set during this competition.
Jamaica National Record13.12 s

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time
DateTimeRound
Tuesday, 7 August 201210:10Round 1
Wednesday, 8 August 201219:15
21:15
Semifinals
Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat plus the 6 fastest times qualified.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Sergey Shubenkov13.26Q
2Konstadínos Douvalídis13.40Q
3Adrien Deghelt13.52Q
4Garfield Darien13.54q
5Paulo Villar13.55q, SB
6Matthias Bühler13.68
7Shi Dongpeng13.78
8David Ilariani13.90

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Jason Richardson13.33Q
2Lawrence Clarke13.42Q
3Maksim Lynsha13.47Q, SB
4Wayne Davis13.52q
5Andrew Riley13.59
6João Carlos Almeida13.69
7Rouhollah Askari13.97
8Ronald Forbes14.21
Enrique Llanos

Heat 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Orlando Ortega13.26Q
2Hansle Parchment13.32Q
3Konstantin Shabanov13.63Q
4Ladji Doucouré13.67
5Mikel Thomas13.74
6Erik Balnuweit13.77
Andrew Pozzi
Shamar Sands
Ali Kamé

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Dayron Robles13.33Q
2Lehann Fourie13.49Q, SB
3Jeff Porter13.53Q
4Dimitri Bascou13.57q
5Greggmar Swift13.62
6Alexander John13.67
7Fawaz Al-Shammari14.00
8Héctor Cotto14.08
9Ahmad Hazer14.82

Heat 5

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Aries Merritt13.07Q
2Ryan Brathwaite13.23Q, SB
3Xie Wenjun13.43Q
4Emanuele Abate13.46q
5Richard Phillips13.47q
6Dániel Kiss13.62
7Aleksey Dremin13.75SB
8Jeffrey Julmis13.87
9Ronald Bennett14.45

Heat 6

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Andy Turner13.42Q
2Selim Nurudeen13.51Q, PB
3Gregory Sedoc13.52Q
4Balázs Baji13.76
5Jackson Quiñónez13.76SB
Shane Brathwaite
Liu Xiang
Artur Noga
Moussa Dembélé

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Semi Finals

Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat plus the 2 fastest times qualified.

Heat 1

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.5 m/s
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Jason Richardson13.13Q
2Orlando Ortega13.26Q
3Lawrence Clarke13.31q, PB
4Adrien Deghelt13.42PB
5Garfield Darien13.48
6Wayne Davis13.49
7Konstadínos Douvalídis13.77
Gregory Sedoc

Heat 2

Wind:
Heat 2: +0.1 m/s
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Aries Merritt12.94Q
2Ryan Brathwaite13.23Q, SB
3Xie Wenjun13.34PB
4Andy Turner13.42
5Selim Nurudeen13.55
6Dimitri Bascou13.55
7Paulo Villar13.63
8Konstantin Shabanov13.65
Richard Phillips

Heat 3

Wind:
Heat 3: +0.1 m/s
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Dayron Robles13.10Q, SB
2Hansle Parchment13.14Q, NR
3Lehann Fourie13.28q, PB
4Emanuele Abate13.35
5Jeff Porter13.41
6Sergey Shubenkov13.41
7Maksim Lynsha13.45PB
8Ladji Doucouré13.74

Final