Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

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Men's 110 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
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Gold medalist Hansle Parchment (shown at 2015 World Championships)
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates3 August 2021
(round 1)
4 August 2021
(semifinals)
5 August 2021
(final)
Competitors40 from 29 nations
Winning time13.04
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hansle Parchment  Jamaica
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Grant Holloway  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ronald Levy  Jamaica
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The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 3 and 5 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium.[1] Approximately forty athletes were expected to compete; the exact number was dependent on how many nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 40 qualifying through time or ranking (1 universality place was used in 2016).[2] 40 athletes from 29 nations competed. Hansle Parchment of Jamaica won the gold medal, the nation's second consecutive victory in the event. His countryman Ronald Levy took bronze. American Grant Holloway earned silver, placing the United States back on the podium in the event after the nation missed the medals for the first time in Rio 2016 (excluding the boycotted 1980 Games).

Summary[]

Coming in to the Olympics, Grant Holloway was the clear favorite. He was undefeated and tickled the world record with a 12.81 to win the US Trials, the #2 time in history. He was the only athlete under 13 seconds all year. His closest competitor on the yearly list was defending champion Omar McLeod from the heats of the Jamaican Olympic Trials. But McLeod failed to qualify for the Olympics from the strong field in those trials. McLeod tried to appeal to change the team makeup, but which deserving athlete would be left home to make room for him? His appeal failed. As expected, Holloway had the fastest times in the heats and the semis. 2012 bronze medalist Hansle Parchment was also in contention.

In the final, the script looked the same. Holloway was first out of the blocks, first over the first hurdle and had a clear lead over the closely matched wall of athletes behind him. By the fourth hurdle, Holloway had close to a metre lead, Ronald Levy then Andrew Pozzi emerged in second and third. Devon Allen and Hansle Parchment were close behind. Over the next three hurdles, Parchment made a big move to separate from the others, still a metre down on Holloway. Over the final three hurdles, Holloway lost his momentum. Parchment and the wall gained steadily. Holloway was still first over the last hurdle, but the thundering herd was approaching. Parchment went by with 10 metres to go. The next was Levy but Holloway executed a better lean at the finish, officially credited with .01 advantage over Levy to take silver. Two of the three people who beat McLeod at the Jamaican trials ended up on the podium.[3]

Background[]

This was the 29th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics.

Comoros and Hong Kong competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles for the first time. The United States made its 28th appearance, most of any nation (having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games).

Qualification[]

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's 110 metres hurdles event if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard is 13.32 seconds. This standard was "set for the sole purpose of qualifying athletes with exceptional performances unable to qualify through the IAAF World Rankings pathway." The world rankings, based on the average of the best five results for the athlete over the qualifying period and weighted by the importance of the meet, will then be used to qualify athletes until the cap of 40 is reached.[2][4]

The qualifying period was originally from 1 May 2019 to 29 June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period was suspended from 6 April 2020 to 30 November 2020, with the end date extended to 29 June 2021. The world rankings period start date was also changed from 1 May 2019 to 30 June 2020; athletes who had met the qualifying standard during that time were still qualified, but those using world rankings would not be able to count performances during that time. The qualifying time standards could be obtained in various meets during the given period that have the approval of the IAAF. Only outdoor meets are eligible. The most recent Area Championships may be counted in the ranking, even if not during the qualifying period.[2][5]

NOCs can also use their universality place—each NOC can enter one male athlete regardless of time if they had no male athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the 110 metres hurdles.[2]

Entry number: 40.

Qualification standard No. of athletes NOC Nominated athletes
Entry standard – 13.32 3  France Wilhem Belocian
Aurel Manga
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde
3  Jamaica Ronald Levy
Hansle Parchment
Damion Thomas
3  Japan Shunsuke Izumiya
Taio Kanai
Shunya Takayama
3  United States Devon Allen
Grant Holloway
Daniel Roberts
2  Brazil Gabriel Constantino
Eduardo de Deus
2  Spain Asier Martínez
Orlando Ortega
1  ROC Sergey Shubenkov
1  Barbados Shane Brathwaite
1  Belarus Vitali Parakhonka
1  Belgium Michael Obasuyi
1  China Xie Wenjun
1  Cyprus Milan Trajkovic
1  Finland Elmo Lakka
1  Great Britain Andrew Pozzi
1  Italy Paolo Dal Molin
1  South Africa Antonio Alkana
World ranking 1  Australia Nicholas Hough
1  Brazil Rafael Henrique Pereira
1  Chinese Taipei Chen Kuei-ru
1  Germany Gregor Traber
1  Great Britain David King
1  Greece Konstantinos Douvalidis
1  Hungary Valdó Szűcs
1  Italy Hassane Fofana
1  Kuwait Yaqoub Al-Youha
1  Poland Damian Czykier
1  Switzerland Jason Joseph
Universality places 1  Comoros Fadane Hamadi
1  Hong Kong Chan Chung Wang
1  Mauritius Jérémie Lararaudeuse
Total 40

Competition format[]

The event continued to use the three-round format used previously in 1908–1956, 1964–1984, and since 2012.[6]

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.

World record  Aries Merritt (USA) 12.80 Brussels, Belgium 7 September 2012
Olympic record  Liu Xiang (CHN) 12.91 Athens, Greece 27 August 2004
Area Time (s) Wind Athlete Nation
Africa (records) 13.11 +1.8 Antonio Alkana  South Africa
Asia (records) 12.88 +1.1 Liu Xiang  China
Europe (records) 12.91 +0.5 Colin Jackson  Great Britain
North, Central America
and the Caribbean (records)		 12.80 WR +0.3 Aries Merritt  United States
Oceania (records) 13.29 +0.6 Kyle Vander Kuyp  Australia
South America (records) 13.18 +0.8 Gabriel Constantino  Brazil

Schedule[]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The men's 110 metres hurdles took place over three consecutive days.[1]

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:00 Round 1
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 9:00 Semifinals
Thursday, 5 August 2021 9:00 Final

Results[]

Round 1[]

Qualification Rules: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Heat 1[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 4 Ronald Levy  Jamaica 13.17 Q
2 6 Jason Joseph  Switzerland 13.31 Q, SB
3 9 Valdó Szűcs  Hungary 13.50 (13.496) Q
4 2 Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain 13.50 (13.500) Q
5 5 Gabriel Constantino  Brazil 13.55 q
6 8 Michael Obasuyi  Belgium 13.65
7 7 Louis François Mendy  Senegal 13.84 SB
— 3 Wilhem Belocian  France DQ

Heat 2[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 7 Asier Martínez  Spain 13.32 Q
2 5 Daniel Roberts  United States 13.41 Q
3 8 Damion Thomas  Jamaica 13.54 Q
4 2 Milan Trajkovic  Cyprus 13.59 Q, SB
5 9 Vitali Parakhonka  Belarus 13.61
6 4 Shane Brathwaite  Barbados 13.64
7 3 Yaqoub Al-Youha  Kuwait 13.69 SB
8 6 Hassane Fofana  Italy 13.70

Heat 3[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 9 Grant Holloway  United States 13.02 Q
2 7 Hansle Parchment  Jamaica 13.23 Q
3 3 Nicholas Hough  Australia 13.57 Q
4 5 Damian Czykier  Poland 13.61 Q
5 4 Gregor Traber  Germany 13.65
6 2 Shunya Takayama  Japan 13.98
7 1 Jérémie Lararaudeuse  Mauritius 14.03 PB
8 8 Fadane Hamadi  Comoros 14.99
— 6 Sergey Shubenkov  ROC DNS

Heat 4[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 8 Aurel Manga  France 13.24 Q, =PB
2 6 Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan 13.28 Q
3 4 Rafael Henrique Pereira  Brazil 13.46 Q
4 2 Xie Wenjun  China 13.51 Q
5 3 Chen Kuei-ru  Chinese Taipei 13.53 q, SB
6 1 David King  Great Britain 13.55 q
7 9 Eddie Lovett  Virgin Islands 14.17 SB
8 7 Chan Chung Wang  Hong Kong 14.23
— 5 Orlando Ortega  Spain DNS

Heat 5[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 5 Devon Allen  United States 13.21 Q
2 3 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France 13.37 Q, SB
3 7 Taio Kanai  Japan 13.41 Q
4 8 Paolo Dal Molin  Italy 13.44 Q
5 6 Elmo Lakka  Finland 13.48 q
6 4 Antonio Alkana  South Africa 13.55 SB
7 2 Konstantinos Douvalidis  Greece 13.63 SB
8 9 Eduardo de Deus  Brazil 13.78

Semifinals[]

Qualification Rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) advance to the final.

Semifinal 1[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Reaction Time Notes
1 7 Ronald Levy  Jamaica 0.154 13.23 Q
2 4 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France 0.155 13.25 Q, SB
3 6 Asier Martínez  Spain 0.150 13.27 q, PB
4 8 Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain 0.148 13.32 q
5 5 Daniel Roberts  United States 0.195 13.33
6 2 Damian Czykier  Poland 0.152 13.63
7 9 Nicholas Hough  Australia 0.163 13.88
8 3 Gabriel Constantino  Brazil 0.159 13.89

Semifinal 2[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Reaction Time Notes
1 5 Devon Allen  United States 0.121 13.18 Q
2 6 Aurel Manga  France 0.151 13.24 Q, =PB
3 8 Damion Thomas  Jamaica 0.135 13.39
4 9 Paolo Dal Molin  Italy 0.133 13.40
5 4 Jason Joseph  Switzerland 0.135 13.46
6 2 Chen Kuei-ru  Chinese Taipei 0.146 13.57
7 3 Elmo Lakka  Finland 0.139 13.67
8 7 Taio Kanai  Japan 0.127 26.11

Semifinal 3[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Reaction Time Notes
1 4 Grant Holloway  United States 0.130 13.13 Q
2 6 Hansle Parchment  Jamaica 0.145 13.23 Q
3 7 Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan 0.141 13.35
4 9 Valdó Szűcs  Hungary 0.140 13.40
5 8 Xie Wenjun  China 0.154 13.58
6 5 Rafael Henrique Pereira  Brazil 0.154 13.62
7 2 David King  Great Britain 0.141 13.67
8 3 Milan Trajkovic  Cyprus 0.147 14.01

Final[]

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Reaction Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 Hansle Parchment  Jamaica 0.130 13.04 SB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Grant Holloway  United States 0.136 13.09
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Ronald Levy  Jamaica 0.146 13.10
4 6 Devon Allen  United States 0.133 13.14
5 8 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France 0.120 13.16 SB
6 2 Asier Martínez  Spain 0.155 13.22 PB
7 3 Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain 0.140 13.30
8 9 Aurel Manga  France 0.151 13.38
Wind: -0.5 m/s

References[]

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  2. ^ a b c d "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Athletics" (PDF). IAAF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Parchment outguns Holloway to win men's Olympic 110m hurdles gold". France 24. 5 August 2021. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  4. ^ "IAAF to follow other sports with world ranking system for athletes". BBC Sport. 7 March 2018. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
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