Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates	July 23 (heats) July 24 (semifinals, final)
Medalists
Harrison Dillard United States   Jack Davis United States   Arthur Barnard United States

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
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 steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games took place July 23 and July 24. The final was won by American Harrison Dillard. Dillard's compatriots, Jack Davis and Arthur Barnard took 2nd and 3rd place.

Results

Heats

The first round was held on July 23. The two fastest runners from each heat qualified to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harrison Dillard	United States	13.9	=OR
2	Sergey Popov	Soviet Union	14.8
3	Olivier Bernard	Switzerland	15.1
4	Erdal Barkay	Turkey	15.2
5	Edmundo Ohacho	Chile	15.4
6	Olli Alho	Finland	15.4

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yevhen Bulanchyk	Soviet Union	14.4
2	Edmond Roudnitska	France	14.9
3	Estanislao Kocourek	Argentina	15.0
4	Risto Syrjänen	Finland	15.4
5	Juan Lebron	Puerto Rico	15.4
6	Fouad Yazgi	Egypt	16.1

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Davis	United States	14.0
2	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.8
3	Samuel Anderson	Cuba	15.1
4	Wolfgang Troßbach	Germany	15.1
5	Téofilo Davis	Venezuela	15.7

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ken Doubleday	Australia	14.5
2	Jack Parker	Great Britain	14.8
3	Gordon Crosby	Canada	14.8
4	Teófilo Colón Molinaris	Puerto Rico	15.2

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ray Weinberg	Australia	14.4
2	Väinö Suvivuo	Finland	14.9
3	Jörn Gevert	Chile	15.2

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arthur Barnard	United States	14.4
2	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.7
3	Michitaka Kinami	Japan	15.0
4	Ingi Þorsteinsson	Iceland	15.6
5	Jacques Dohen	France	15.7
6	Johny Fonck	Luxembourg	16.1

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on July 24. The three fastest runners advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harrison Dillard	United States	14.0
2	Arthur Barnard	United States	14.2
3	Ken Doubleday	Australia	14.5
4	Sergey Popov	Soviet Union	14.7
5	Edmond Roudnitska	France	14.9
6	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.9

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Davis	United States	14.4
2	Yevhen Bulanchyk	Soviet Union	14.4
3	Ray Weinberg	Australia	14.5
4	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.6
5	Väinö Suvivuo	Finland	14.9
6	Jack Parker	Great Britain	15.0

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (automatic)	Notes
	Harrison Dillard	United States	13.91	OR
	Jack Davis	United States	14.00
	Arthur Barnard	United States	14.40
4	Yevhen Bulanchyk	Soviet Union	14.73
5	Ken Doubleday	Australia	14.82
6	Ray Weinberg	Australia	15.15

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 110 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-11-19.