110 metres hurdles
The 110- meter hurdles is an Olympic sport of athletics for men. Here are to be run on a straight 110- meter track ten 1,067 meters high, erected at equal distances hurdles. They are designed so that they can fall over when pushed, which is not considered an error for the competitors, if it is not done intentionally. Started as the 100 -meter run in the crouch start from starting blocks.
The first hurdle is at a distance of 13.72 m from the start line, the following 9 spaces amount to 9.14 m and the final section 14.02 m.
At Olympic Games the 110- meter hurdles is since 1896 in the program. Women ran from 1932 to 1968 on the 80 - meter hurdles track. Then hurdles was converted to 100 meters.
The fastest 110-meter hurdler achieve a time of 13 seconds ( world record: 12.80 seconds). This corresponds to a speed of 8.54 m / s or 30.77 km / h
See also hurdles.
History
In the first hurdle runs to 1830 in England, wooden barriers were placed on a 100 - yards - route. First standards were set in 1864 at Oxford and Cambridge: The track length was 120 yards ( 109.72 meters), it had ten hurdles with a height of 3 feet, 6 inches in height (1.06 meters) situated. Having rounded up in competitions in France from 1888 to 110 meters, so that the obtained up to the present dimensions were largely described. In Germany height were used until 1907 hurdles of 1.00 meters, after which the internationally accepted level of 1.06 meters was recognized.
The massive hurdle constructions of the early days were 1895, first replaced by lighter, T-shape, which could be knocked over. Until 1935 runners were disqualified, the overturning more than three hurdles. Records were recognized only if all the hurdles stood still.
In 1935, the hurdles were replaced in T-shape by such L-shaped, the tip over easily when pushed forward and reduce the risk of injury.
The running technique used up to the present, in which the barrier to lowering the upper body is overrun skipped and instead, each with three steps between the hurdles, turned the first Olympic champion of 1900, Alvin Kraenzlein on.
The first hurdle race in Germany, over the distance of 120 yards, found on August 23, 1891 in Berlin on the velodrome Hallensee.
At the Olympic Games 110 meter hurdle race has been held since 1896. In the women's track and the track was occasionally raced in the early 1920s, without ever having to become increasingly important. From 1926 women were running only about 80 meter hurdles, from 1961 to the test, and finally from 1969 in official competitions over 100 meters.
1900 and 1904 there was also at the Olympics a 200 - meter hurdles. The International Athletics Association IAAF recognized until 1960 in world records for this route.
Milestones
- First officially recognized by the IAAF World Record: 15,0 s, United States 46 Forrest Smithson, 1908
- First run under 15 seconds: 14.8 s, Canada 1868 Earl Thomson, 1920
- First run below 14.5 seconds: 14.4 s, Sweden Eric Wennström, 1929
- First run under 14 seconds: 13.7 s, United States 48 Forrest Towns, 1936
- First run under 13.5 seconds: 13.4 s, United States 48 Jack Davis, 1956
- First run under 13 seconds: 12.93 s, Renaldo Nehemiah United States, 1981
Successful athletes
- Two Olympic medals: United States Lee Calhoun, 1956 and 1960
- United States Roger Kingdom, 1984 and 1988
- United States Allen Johnson, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003 and Olympic Champion 1996
- United States Greg Foster, 1983, 1987 and 1991
Most successful German:
- Germany BR Martin Lauer, world record holder from 1959 to 1972 ( 13.2 s on 7 July 1959 in Zurich )
- Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Thomas Munkelt, Olympic Champion 1980
- German Empire Vincenz Duncker, Olympia Third 1906
- Germany Florian Schwarthoff, Olympic Third 1996
- Germany BR Werner Trzmiel, Olympic Fifth 1968