Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 5 (heats) August 6 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	31 from 20 nations
Medalists
Forrest Towns United States   Don Finlay Great Britain   Fritz Pollard United States

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		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		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place on August 5 and August 6. The final was won by American Forrest Towns.

Results

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tom Lavery	South Africa	15.0
2	Larry O'Connor	Canada	15.1
3	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	15.2
4	Svend Aage Thomsen	Denmark	15.3
5	Juul Bosmans	Belgium
6	Yasuharu Furuta	Japan

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.7
2	John Thornton	Great Britain	15.0
3	Johann Langmayr	Austria	15.1
4	Willi Welscher	Germany	15.2
5	Huang Yingjie	China

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.7
2	Tadashi Murakami	Japan	15.3
3	Jim Worrall	Canada	15.6
4	Darcy Guimarães	Brazil
5	Ludvík Kománek	Czechoslovakia

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roy Staley	United States	15.0
2	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	15.1
3	Ashleigh Pilbrow	Great Britain	15.5
4	Ioannis Skiadas	Greece
5	Lin Shaozhou	China

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Forrest Towns	United States	14.5
2	Erwin Wegner	Germany	15.1
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	15.3
4	René Kunz	Switzerland
5	Kotaro Shimizu	Japan

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.9
2	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	15.1
3	Gianni Caldana	Italy	15.1
4	Alf Watson	Australia	15.1
5	Miguel White	Philippines

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Forrest Towns	United States	14.1	=WR
2	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.5
3	John Thornton	Great Britain	14.7
4	Roy Staley	United States	14.8
5	Tadashi Murakami	Japan	15.1
6	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	15.6

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.5
2	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.6
3	Larry O'Connor	Canada	15.0
4	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	15.2
5	Erwin Wegner	Germany	15.3
6	Tom Lavery	South Africa	15.6

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Forrest Towns	United States	14.2
	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.4
	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.4
4	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.4
5	John Thornton	Great Britain	14.7
6	Larry O'Connor	Canada	14.8

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 110 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-29.