Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates	24–27 August
Competitors	48 from 34 nations
Winning time	12.91 =WR
Medalists
Liu Xiang   China   Terrence Trammell   United States   Anier García   Cuba

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Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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100 m		men		women
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400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
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Pole vault		men		women
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Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
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Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The men's 110 metre hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 24 to 27.

The top four runners in each of the initial six heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next eight fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. Those 32 runners competed in 4 heats in the second round, with the top three runners from each heat and the four next fastest runners qualifying for the semifinals. There were two semifinal heats, and only the top four from each heat advanced to the final.

Ladji Doucouré was the leader in all of the preliminary rounds, but in the final, Liu Xiang led from the gun, running a flawless race to take the Olympic record and match Colin Jackson's world record with an identical 12.91.^[1][2] Behind him, returning silver medalist Terrence Trammell had a slight lead despite touching virtually every hurdle. As the attrition from dragging each weighted barrier slowed him more and more, Staņislavs Olijars appeared to edge ahead. But when Olijars hit the sixth hurdle he slowed out of contention. Coming back from an abysmal start, Doucouré became the next to edge ahead, looking like a lock for silver until he demolished the final hurdle, leaving Doucouré to stumble across the finish in dead last. A wall of Trammell, Olijars, Maurice Wignall and defending champion Anier García desperately leaning from 5 metres out, all hit the finish line at almost the same time. Trammell's perfectly timed dip edged García, to give him his second successive silver.^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Colin Jackson (GBR)	12.91 s	Stuttgart, Germany	20 August 1993
Olympic record	Allen Johnson (USA)	12.95 s	Atlanta, United States	29 July 1996

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Result	Record
27 August	Final	Liu Xiang	China	12.91	=WR

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's 110 metres hurdles, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 13.55 seconds or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 13.72 seconds or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 24 August 2004	09:35	Round 1
Wednesday, 25 August 2004	22:15	Quarterfinals
Thursday, 26 August 2004	21:00	Semifinals
Friday, 27 August 2004	21:30	Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: The first four finishers in each heat (Q) plus the next eight fastest overall runners (q) qualified.^[4]

Heat 1

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	8	Ladji Doucouré	France	0.205	13.18	Q, NR
2	4	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	0.154	13.27	Q
3	5	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	0.128	13.39	Q, NR
4	3	Márcio de Souza	Brazil	0.162	13.43	Q, SB
5	7	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	0.168	13.46	q, NR
6	1	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	0.113	13.47	q, PB
7	2	Jerome Crews	Germany	0.178	13.83
8	6	Nenad Lončar	Serbia and Montenegro	0.157	14.02

Heat 2

Wind: +1.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	1	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	0.169	13.39	Q, SB
2	4	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	0.176	13.41	Q
3	8	Chris Pinnock	Jamaica	0.192	13.42	Q, SB
4	2	Todd Matthews-Jouda	Sudan	0.170	13.47	Q, NR
5	3	Terrence Trammell	United States	0.185	13.51	q
6	5	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	0.164	13.52	q
7	6	Damjan Zlatnar	Slovenia	0.132	13.66	q, =NR
8	7	Jurica Grabušić	Croatia	0.166	13.87

Heat 3

Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Liu Xiang	China	0.128	13.27	Q
2	6	Charles Allen	Canada	0.149	13.35	Q, PB
3	7	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	0.179	13.47	Q
4	5	Igor Peremota	Russia	0.142	13.54	Q
5	2	Masato Naito	Japan	0.162	13.56	q, SB
6	1	Serhiy Demydyuk	Ukraine	0.163	13.80
7	3	Park Tae-kyong	South Korea	0.179	13.96
8	8	Luís Sá	Portugal	0.177	14.01

Heat 4

Wind: −1.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Paulo Villar	Colombia	0.193	13.44	Q, NR
2	5	Matheus Inocêncio	Brazil	0.157	13.45	Q, =SB
3	2	Allen Johnson	United States	0.176	13.45	Q
4	1	Evgeny Pechonkin	Russia	0.150	13.64	Q
5	7	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	0.186	13.65	q
6	8	Shi Dongpeng	China	0.156	13.68
7	6	Robert Newton	Great Britain	0.176	13.85
8	3	Edy Jakariya	Indonesia	0.188	14.11	NR

Heat 5

Wind: +0.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	2	Anier García	Cuba	0.158	13.24	Q, SB
2	4	Duane Ross	United States	0.162	13.39	Q
3	7	Mike Fenner	Germany	0.160	13.53	Q, SB
4	6	Stephen Jones	Barbados	0.184	13.56	Q, NR
5	1	Sergey Chepiga	Russia	0.160	13.59	q
6	8	David Ilariani	Georgia	0.168	13.72
7	3	Levente Csillag	Hungary	0.148	13.74
8	5	Andy Turner	Great Britain	0.155	13.75

Heat 6

Wind: +1.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	6	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	0.160	13.30	Q, =SB
2	6	Richard Phillips	Jamaica	0.138	13.39	Q, PB
3	6	Jackson Quiñónez	Ecuador	0.167	13.44	Q, NR
4	6	Yuniel Hernández	Cuba	0.151	13.48	Q, =SB
5	6	Sultan Tucker	Liberia	0.181	13.76
6	6	Tarmo Jallai	Estonia	0.150	13.77
7	6	Mubarak Ata Mubarak	Saudi Arabia	0.134	13.81
	6	Redelén Melo dos Santos	Brazil		DNS

Round 2

Qualification rule: The first three finishers in each heat (Q) plus the next four fastest overall runners (q) qualified.^[5]

Heat 1

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	3	Ladji Doucouré	France	0.198	13.23	Q
2	4	Charles Allen	Canada	0.149	13.30	Q, PB
3	8	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	0.154	13.39	Q, SB
4	5	Duane Ross	United States	0.155	13.50	q
5	1	Evgeny Pechonkin	Russia	0.151	13.53
6	7	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	Madagascar	0.210	13.64
7	6	Jackson Quiñónez	Ecuador	0.163	13.67
	2	Damjan Zlatnar	Slovenia		DNS

Heat 2

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	5	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	0.169	13.26	Q
2	4	Anier García	Cuba	0.159	13.28	Q
3	3	Richard Phillips	Jamaica	0.161	13.44	Q
4	2	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	0.154	13.48	q
5	8	Mike Fenner	Germany	0.128	13.53	=SB
6	7	Stephen Jones	Barbados	0.227	13.85
7	6	Allen Johnson	United States	0.190	DNF
8	1	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	0.238	DNF

Heat 3

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	6	Liu Xiang	China	0.202	13.27	Q
2	4	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	0.200	13.29	Q, SB
3	7	Terrence Trammell	United States	0.220	13.34	Q
4	3	Chris Pinnock	Jamaica	0.195	13.47	q
5	2	Márcio de Souza	Brazil	0.165	13.54
6	1	Masato Naito	Japan	0.157	13.54	SB
7	8	Igor Peremota	Russia	0.130	13.64
8	5	Paulo Villar	Colombia	0.176	14.03

Heat 4

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Matheus Inocêncio	Brazil	0.140	13.33	Q, PB
2	3	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	0.157	13.39	Q, =SB
3	6	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	0.157	13.39	Q
4	1	Yuniel Hernández	Cuba	0.137	13.46	q, SB
5	7	Sergey Chepiga	Russia	0.190	13.55
6	2	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	0.156	13.62
7	5	Satoru Tanigawa	Japan	0.147	13.70
8	8	Todd Matthews-Jouda	Sudan	0.203	13.77

Semifinals

Qualification rule: The first four finishers in each heat (Q) moved on to the final.^[6]

Semifinal 1

Wind: −0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	7	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	0.162	13.17	Q, NR
2	4	Liu Xiang	China	0.151	13.18	Q
3	6	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	0.151	13.20	Q, SB
4	3	Charles Allen	Canada	0.150	13.23	Q, PB
5	8	Duane Ross	United States	0.157	13.30
6	5	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	0.174	13.37
7	1	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	0.124	13.42
8	2	Chris Pinnock	Jamaica	0.196	13.57

Semifinal 2

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	5	Ladji Doucouré	France	0.200	13.06	Q, NR
2	2	Terrence Trammell	United States	0.165	13.17	Q
3	6	Anier García	Cuba	0.172	13.30	Q
4	3	Matheus Inocêncio	Brazil	0.154	13.34	Q
5	4	Dudley Dorival	Haiti	0.162	13.39	=SB
6	7	Richard Phillips	Jamaica	0.143	13.47
7	8	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	0.144	13.52
	1	Yuniel Hernández	Cuba		DNS

Final

Wind: +0.3 m/s^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
	4	Liu Xiang	China	0.139	12.91	=WR
	6	Terrence Trammell	United States	0.154	13.18
	7	Anier García	Cuba	0.169	13.20	SB
4	5	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	0.164	13.21
5	2	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	0.174	13.21
6	1	Charles Allen	Canada	0.139	13.48
7	8	Matheus Inocêncio	Brazil	0.169	13.49
8	3	Ladji Doucouré	France	0.204	13.76

References

1. "Xiang equals hurdles record". BBC Sport. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
2. "Brave Liu Xiang did it! Chinese fans jubilant". Xinhua (China Daily). 28 August 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
3. "Mack sets Olympic record in 1-2 U.S. finish". USA Today. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
4. "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's 110m Hurdles Heats". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
5. "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's 110m Hurdles Quarterfinals". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
6. "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's 110m Hurdles Semifinals". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
7. "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's 110m Hurdles Final". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

External links

• IAAF Athens 2004 Olympic Coverage