Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (heats & semifinals) August 1 (final)
Medalists
Sydney Atkinson   South Africa   Steve Anderson   United States   John Collier   United States

Official Video

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between July 31 & August 1.

Results

Heats

The first two finishers in each heat moved on to the Semi-Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gabriel Sempé	France	15.0
2	Otakar Jandera	Czechoslovakia
3	Armand Lepaffe	Belgium
4	Lothar Albrich	Romania
AC	Valerio Vallania	Argentina	DQ

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Carl Ring	United States	15.0
2	Johannes Viljoen	South Africa
3	Ludwig Vesely	Austria
4	Arie Kan	Netherlands
5	Otto Schop	Romania

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	George Weightman-Smith	South Africa	14.8
2	Robert Marchand	France
3	Albert Andersson	Sweden
4	Wilfred Kalaugher	New Zealand

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Steve Anderson	United States	15.0
2	Eric Wennström	Sweden
3	Alister Clark	Ireland
4	Douglas Neame	Great Britain

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Leighton Dye	United States	15.0
2	Sid Atkinson	South Africa
3	Erik Kjellström	Sweden
4	Arie van Leeuwen	Netherlands

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bernard Lucas	Great Britain	15.2
2	Hans Steinhardt	Germany
3	Alfredo Ugarte	Chile
4	René Joannes-Powell	Belgium

Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Collier	United States	15.0
2	Bengt Sjöstedt	Finland	15.0
3	Giacomo Carlini	Italy	15.9
4	Jan Britstra	Netherlands

Heat Eight

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Fred Gaby	Great Britain	15.2
2	Sten Pettersson	Sweden
3	Alf Watson	Australia
4	Evangelos Moiropoulos	Greece	15.6
5	Louis Lundgren	Denmark	15.7
6	Wojciech Trojanowski	Poland	16.0

Heat Nine

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Yoshio Miki	Japan	15.4
2	David, Lord Burghley	Great Britain
3	Lau Spel	Netherlands
4	Abdul Hamid	India
5	José da Costa	Portugal

Semifinals

The first two finshers in each race moved on to the Final Round.

Semi-Final Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Leighton Dye	United States	14.8
2	Fred Gaby	Great Britain	14.9
3	Eric Wennström	Sweden	14.9
4	Hans Steinhardt	Germany	15.3
5	Johannes Viljoen	South Africa	15.4
6	Yoshio Miki	Japan

Semi-Final Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Steve Anderson	United States	14.8
2	Sid Atkinson	South Africa	14.9
3	David, Lord Burghley	Great Britain	15.0
4	Bengt Sjöstedt	Finland	15.1
5	Robert Marchand	France
6	Otakar Jandera	Czechoslovakia

Semi-Final Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	George Weightman-Smith	South Africa	14.6
2	John Collier	United States	14.8
3	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	15.0
4	Carl Ring	United States
5	Gabriel Sempé	France
6	Bernard Lucas	Great Britain

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Sydney Atkinson	South Africa	14.8
	Steve Anderson	United States	14.8
	John Collier	United States	14.9
4	Leighton Dye	United States	14.9
5	George Weightman-Smith	South Africa	15.0
6	Fred Gaby	Great Britain	15.2

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's 110 m hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-03.