Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 3 (heats and quarterfinals) September 5 (semifinals and final)
Medalists
Lee Calhoun United States   Willie May United States   Hayes Jones United States

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
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
20 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 hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 3 and September 5.

Results

Heats

The fastest four hurdlers in each of the six heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.45
2	Jean Baptiste Okello	Uganda	14.59
3	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.77
4	Marcel Duriez	France	14.90
5	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	15.13
6	Çetin Şahiner	Turkey	15.75

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hayes Jones	United States	14.32
2	Nikolay Berezutsky	Soviet Union	14.50
3	Milad Petrušić	Yugoslavia	14.74
4	Paolo Zamboni	Italy	14.82
5	John Chittick	Australia	14.86
-	Abdul Wardak	Afghanistan		DNF

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willie May	United States	14.16
2	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union	14.45
3	Bob Birrell	Great Britain	14.82
4	Klaus Gerbig	Germany	14.87
5	Saka Oloko	Nigeria	15.04
6	Nazzar Al-Jamali	Iraq	15.99

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lee Calhoun	United States	14.37
2	Edmond Roudnitska	France	14.53
3	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.68
4	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.90
5	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	14.92
6	Pétur Rögnvaldsson	Iceland	15.38
-	Isaac Elie	Sudan		DNF

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Keith Gardner	British West Indies	14.46
2	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.56
3	Nereo Svara	Italy	15.03
4	Vic Matthews	Great Britain	15.07
5	Jagmohan Singh	India	15.34
6	Abdul Malik	Pakistan	15.52

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anatoly Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	14.53
2	Karl-Ernst Schottes	Germany	14.90
3	Roman Muzyk	Poland	14.94
4	Aggrey Awori	Uganda	15.36
5	Jacques Déprez	France	17.24

Quarterfinals

The fastest three hurdlers in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lee Calhoun	United States	14.16
2	Jean Baptiste Okello	Uganda	14.48	NR
3	Nikolay Berezutsky	Soviet Union	14.57
4	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.68
5	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.78
6	Karl-Ernst Schottes	Germany	14.81

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.06
2	Keith Gardner	British West Indies	14.45
3	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.51
4	Edmond Roudnitska	France	14.66
5	Milad Petrušić	Yugoslavia	14.71
6	Paolo Zamboni	Italy	15.02

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willie May	United States	13.92
2	Anatoly Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	14.02
3	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.56
4	Aggrey Awori	Uganda	14.94
5	Klaus Gerbig	Germany	14.97
6	Vic Matthews	Great Britain	15.12

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hayes Jones	United States	14.19
2	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union	14.51
3	Nereo Svara	Italy	14.59
4	Roman Muzyk	Poland	14.68
5	Bob Birrell	Great Britain	14.78
6	Marcel Duriez	France	15.19

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willie May	United States	13.87
2	Hayes Jones	United States	14.22
3	Keith Gardner	British West Indies	14.32
4	Nereo Svara	Italy	14.50
5	Jean Baptiste Okello	Uganda	14.59
6	Nikolay Berezutsky	Soviet Union	14.69

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lee Calhoun	United States	13.88
2	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.13
3	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union	14.46
4	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.49
5	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.83
-	Anatoly Mikhaylov	Soviet Union		DNF

Final

wind = 0.1 m/s.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lee Calhoun	United States	13.98
	Willie May	United States	13.99
	Hayes Jones	United States	14.17
4	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.20
5	Keith Gardner	British West Indies	14.55
6	Valentin Chistyakov	Soviet Union	14.71

Key: DNF = did not finish

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 110 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-09.