2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles


The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.

Summary

The returning champion was David Oliver, while world leader in 2015 Orlando Ortega is ineligible after switching his nationality to Spain. World record holder Aries Merritt was here, just days before a scheduled kidney transplant.
The heats will be remembered for the false start disqualification of Ronnie Ash. Similar to Jon Drummond's incident in 2003, Ash refused to accept the disqualification and took several minutes before being convinced to leave the track.
In the finals, Oliver was the first to the first hurdle, and he hit it badly. Dimitri Bascou was the next to show a microscopic lead which only lasted until he clobbered the third hurdle, giving world #2 Omar McLeod three steps in the lead until he flipped the fourth hurdle. Merritt and Sergey Shubenkov were the next leaders. Merritt seemed to be running too close to the hurdles and had to slow to compensate giving Shubenkov a slight edge. Hansle Parchment built up speed and even though he hit the tenth hurdle, had more speed to the finish.
His late rush passed Merritt to earn silver and make for a challenge to Shubenkov for the gold. Shubenkov's 12.98 was a new Russian National Record.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record12.80Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012
Championship record12.91Stuttgart, Germany20 August 1993
World Leading12.94Saint-Denis, France4 July 2015
African Record13.24Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012
Asian Record12.88Lausanne, Switzerland11 July 2006
North, Central American and Caribbean record12.80Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012
South American Record13.27Guadalajara, Mexico28 October 2011
European Record12.91Stuttgart, Germany20 August 1993
Oceanian record13.29Gothenburg, Sweden11 August 1995

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat and the next 4 fastest advanced to the Semifinals. Heats were held on 26 August.
Wind:
Heat 1: -1.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.2 m/s, Heat 3: -1.0 m/s, Heat 4: -0.7 m/s, Heat 5: -1.2 m/s
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
137David Oliver13.15
257Aries Merritt13.25
319Shane Brathwaite13.28
454Dimitri Bascou13.29
558Sergey Shubenkov13.31
644Hansle Parchment13.33
748Matthias Bühler13.35,
725Pascal Martinot-Lagarde13.35
946Aleec Harris13.41
942Greggmar Swift13.41
1143Jhoanis Portilla13.43
1133Garfield Darien13.43
1124Andrew Riley13.43
1114Omar McLeod13.43
1517Xie Wenjun13.44
1528Gregor Traber13.44
1736Balázs Baji13.45
1852Sekou Kaba13.46
1915Yidiel Contreras13.48
2022Artur Noga13.49
2134Johnathan Cabral13.55
2239João Vítor de Oliveira13.57
2338Konstadinos Douvalidis13.58
2455Lawrence Clarke13.61
2553Antonio Alkana13.63
2632Yordan O'Farrill13.64
2759Eddie Lovett13.65
2847Nicholas Hough13.69
2949Ben Reynolds13.72
3029Ronald Forbes13.78
3127Jonathan Mendes13.86
3245Milan Ristić13.89
3331Bano Traoré13.91
3411Éder Antônio Souza13.96
3512Jamras Rittidet14.00
3616Welington Zaza14.56
3735Xaysa Anousone14.74
13Mikel ThomasR168.7
18Alexander JohnR162.7
23Ronnie AshR162.7
26Petr SvobodaR162.7
56Zhang Honglin

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat and the next 2 fastest advanced to the [|final].
Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.2 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
125Aries Merritt13.08,
216Sergey Shubenkov13.09
326Omar McLeod13.14
415Hansle Parchment13.16
436Dimitri Bascou13.16,
634David Oliver13.17
624Pascal Martinot-Lagarde13.17
814Garfield Darien13.25
918Aleec Harris13.29
1017Shane Brathwaite13.31
1135Matthias Bühler13.34
1222Johnathan Cabral13.37
1229Gregor Traber13.37
1232Artur Noga13.37
1527Xie Wenjun13.39
1637Andrew Riley13.43
1728Greggmar Swift13.44
1812João Vítor de Oliveira13.45
1939Balázs Baji13.51
2033Lawrence Clarke13.53
2138Yidiel Contreras13.57
2219Sekou Kaba13.58
2311Petr Svoboda13.67
2423Konstadinos Douvalidis13.79
13Jhoanis Portilla

Final

The final was held at 21:20.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
7Sergey Shubenkov12.98
8Hansle Parchment13.03
4Aries Merritt13.04
42Pascal Martinot-Lagarde13.17
55Dimitri Bascou13.17
66Omar McLeod13.18
79David Oliver13.33
83Garfield Darien13.34