Men 110m Hurdles Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Wednesday 08.08

Men 110m Hurdles Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Wednesday 08.08 - Gold Medal: Aries Merritt, United States

Final 21:15 Wind -0.3m/s		time		React.	bib
1. Aries Merritt	USA	12.92s	PB	0.143	3236
2. Jason Richardson	USA	13.04s		0.194	3246
3. Hansle Parchment	JAM	13.12s	NR	0.172	2182
4. Lawrence Clarke	GBR	13.39s		0.169	1804
5. Ryan Brathwaite	BAR	13.40s		0.163	1125
6. Orlando Ortega	CUB	13.43s		0.135	1477
7. Lehann Fourie	RSA	13.53s		0.136	2781
-. Dayron Robles	CUB	DQ 168.7b		0.159	1478

Semi-Finals	3	25	08.08 19:15
Round 1	6	53	07.08 12:30

Merritt had ducked under 13 seconds no less than five times prior to the Games, but lost to 2004 champion Liu Xiang 12.87w to 12.96 earlier in the season. The American was appreciably quicker than anyone else in the first round, but Liu hit the first hurdle hard and fell with a dam- aged Achilles. For the second successive Games, he failed to complete one race. Merritt, whose emergence at high world class in 2012 was attributed to his conversion from eight to seven strides at the start of his race, zipped to the fastest ever semi-final time of 12.94. The other races in that round were taken by Richardson (13.13) and the sharp looking Robles (13.10) ahead of Parchment’s Jamaican record of 13.14. In the final Robles and Merritt were fastest away with the Cuban slightly ahead until the third hurdle, when Merritt took charge. Richardson passed Robles at the fourth, but was never able to get close to Merritt, who won in 12.92, more than a metre ahead of Richardson and Parchment – the first Jamaican medallist in the event. Robles pulled up with a leg injury at the eighth hurdle and crossed the line in 42.86, but was disqualified for deliberately knocking over a hurdle. Merritt’s performance capped a series of runs among the best ever seen in the event, with his fastest 10 races up to the Olympic final averaging 12.971.

Semi-Finals

- Wednesday 08.08 19:15 - First 2 and Best 2 progress.

Semi 1 Wind -0.5m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Jason Richardson	USA	13.13s		0.160	3246	3.
2. Orlando Ortega	CUB	13.26s		0.151	1477	6.
3. Lawrence Clarke	GBR	13.31s	PB	0.159	1804	8.
4. Adrien Deghelt	BEL	13.42s	PB	0.142	1136	13.
5. Garfield Darien	FRA	13.48s		0.154	1748	16.
6. Wayne Davis	TRI	13.49s		0.165	3042	17.
7. Konstadinos Douvalidis	GRE	13.77s		0.146	1979	23.
-. Gregory Sedoc	NED	DNF		0.189	2548

Semi 2 Wind +0.1m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Aries Merritt	USA	12.94s		0.147	3236	1.
2. Ryan Brathwaite	BAR	13.23s	=SB	0.159	1125	5.
3. Wenjun Xie	CHN	13.34s	PB	0.158	1363	9.
4. Andrew Turner	GBR	13.42s		0.151	1840	13.
5. Selim Nurudeen	NGR	13.55s		0.153	2572	18.
6. Dimitri Bascou	FRA	13.55s		0.150	1740	19.
7. Paulo Villar	COL	13.63s		0.177	1421	20.
8. Konstantin Shabanov	RUS	13.65s		0.154	2827	21.
-. Richard Phillips	JAM	DNF		0.146	2183

Semi 3 Wind +0.1m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Dayron Robles	CUB	13.10s	SB	0.162	1478	2.
2. Hansle Parchment	JAM	13.14s	NR	0.172	2182	4.
3. Lehann Fourie	RSA	13.28s	PB	0.139	2781	7.
4. Emanuele Abate	ITA	13.35s		0.150	2127	10.
5. Jeff Porter	USA	13.41s		0.153	3245	11.
6. Sergey Shubenkov	RUS	13.41s		0.156	2829	12.
7. Maksim Lynsha	BLR	13.45s	PB	0.167	1162	15.
8. Ladji Doucoure	FRA	13.74s		0.189	1750	22.

Round 1

- Tuesday 07.08 10:10 - First 3 and Best 6 progress.

Ladji Doucoure (FRA) added.

Heat 1 Wind -0.6m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Sergey Shubenkov	RUS	13.26s		0.157	2829	3.
2. Konstadinos Douvalidis	GRE	13.40s		0.163	1979	8.
3. Adrien Deghelt	BEL	13.52s		0.158	1136	17.
4. Garfield Darien	FRA	13.54s		0.171	1748	21.
5. Paulo Villar	COL	13.55s	SB	0.169	1421	22.
6. Matthias Buhler	GER	13.68s		0.157	1894	30.
7. Dongpeng Shi	CHN	13.78s		0.150	1358	37.
8. David Ilariani	GEO	13.90s		0.158	1884	39.

Heat 2 Wind +0.8m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Jason Richardson	USA	13.33s		0.192	3246	6.
2. Lawrence Clarke	GBR	13.42s		0.160	1804	9.
3. Maksim Lynsha	BLR	13.47s	SB	0.168	1162	13.
4. Wayne Davis	TRI	13.52s		0.169	3042	17.
5. Andrew Riley	JAM	13.59s		0.174	2185	24.
6. Joao Carlos Almeida	POR	13.69s		0.116	2707	31.
7. Rohollah Asgari	IRI	13.97s		0.182	2081	40.
8. Ronald Forbes	CAY	14.21s		0.161	1326	43.
-. Enrique Llanos	PUR	DNF		0.174	2744

Heat 3 Wind +1.2m/s		time	React.	bib	Rk.
1. Orlando Ortega	CUB	13.26s	0.158	1477	3.
2. Hansle Parchment	JAM	13.32s	0.145	2182	5.
3. Konstantin Shabanov	RUS	13.63s	0.140	2827	27.
4. Ladji Doucoure	FRA	13.67s	0.170	1750	28.
5. Mikel Thomas	TRI	13.74s	0.135	3050	32.
6. Erik Balnuweit	GER	13.77s	0.152	1890	36.
-. Andrew Pozzi	GBR	DNF	0.143	1829
-. Kame Ali	MAD	DQ f1 162.7	-	2445
-. Shamar Sands	BAH	DQ 168.7b	0.160	1110

Heat 4 Wind +0.1m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Dayron Robles	CUB	13.33s		0.172	1478	6.
2. Lehann Fourie	RSA	13.49s	SB	0.159	2781	15.
3. Jeff Porter	USA	13.53s		0.148	3245	20.
4. Dimitri Bascou	FRA	13.57s		0.149	1740	23.
5. Greggmar Swift	BAR	13.62s		0.150	1128	25.
6. Alexander John	GER	13.67s		0.195	1906	28.
7. Fawaz Al-shammari	KUW	14.00s		0.174	2381	41.
8. Hector Cotto	PUR	14.08s		0.158	2742	42.
9. Ahmad Hazer	LIB	14.82s		0.195	2421	45.

Heat 5 Wind +0.7m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Aries Merritt	USA	13.07s		0.142	3236	1.
2. Ryan Brathwaite	BAR	13.23s	SB	0.166	1125	2.
3. Wenjun Xie	CHN	13.43s		0.143	1363	11.
4. Emanuele Abate	ITA	13.46s		0.146	2127	12.
5. Richard Phillips	JAM	13.47s		0.154	2183	13.
6. Daniel Kiss	HUN	13.62s		0.188	2044	25.
7. Aleksey Dremin	RUS	13.75s	SB	0.151	2805	33.
8. Jeffrey Julmis	HAI	13.87s		0.161	2028	38.
9. Ronald Bennett	HON	14.45s		0.207	2038	44.

Heat 6 Wind +0.4m/s		time		React.	bib	Rk.
1. Andrew Turner	GBR	13.42s		0.159	1840	9.
2. Selim Nurudeen	NGR	13.51s	PB	0.141	2572	16.
3. Gregory Sedoc	NED	13.52s		0.157	2548	17.
4. Jackson Quinonez	ESP	13.76s	SB	0.139	1633	34.
5. Balazs Baji	HUN	13.76s		0.154	2040	35.
-. Shane Brathwaite	BAR	DNF		0.124	1126
-. Xiang Liu	CHN	DNF		0.123	1356
-. Artur Noga	POL	DNF		0.173	2664
-. Moussa Dembele	SEN	DQ 163.6 168.7		0.167	2909