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

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships
The medalists L-R: Merritt, Shubenkov, Parchment
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	26 August (heats) 27 August (semifinals) 28 August (final)
Competitors	42 from 27 nations
Winning time	12.98
Medalists
Sergey Shubenkov    Russia   Hansle Parchment    Jamaica   Aries Merritt    United States
←  2013 2017  →

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. ^[1]

Summary

The returning champion was David Oliver, while world leader in 2015 Orlando Ortega is ineligible after switching his nationality to Spain (after defecting to the USA at the 2013 Championships). World record holder Aries Merritt was here, just days before a scheduled kidney transplant. ^{[2] [3]}

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. ^[4]

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. ^[5] 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. ^[6]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: ^[7]

World record	Aries Merritt  (USA)	12.80	Brussels, Belgium	7 September 2012
Championship record	Colin Jackson  (GBR)	12.91	Stuttgart, Germany	20 August 1993
World Leading	Orlando Ortega  (CUB)	12.94	Saint-Denis, France	4 July 2015
African Record	Lehann Fourie  (RSA)	13.24	Brussels, Belgium	7 September 2012
Asian Record	Liu Xiang  (CHN)	12.88	Lausanne, Switzerland	11 July 2006
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Aries Merritt  (USA)	12.80	Brussels, Belgium	7 September 2012
South American Record	Paulo Villar  (COL)	13.27 A	Guadalajara, Mexico	28 October 2011
European Record	Colin Jackson  (GBR)	12.91	Stuttgart, Germany	20 August 1993
Oceanian record	Kyle Vander Kuyp  (AUS)	13.29	Gothenburg, Sweden	11 August 1995

Qualification standards

Entry standards [8]
13.47

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
26 August 2015	11:20	Heats
27 August 2015	19:05	Semifinals
28 August 2015	21:20	Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the Semifinals. Heats were held on 26 August. ^[9]

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	7	David Oliver	United States  (USA)	13.15	Q
2	5	7	Aries Merritt	United States  (USA)	13.25	Q
3	1	9	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados  (BAR)	13.28	Q
4	5	4	Dimitri Bascou	France  (FRA)	13.29	Q
5	5	8	Sergey Shubenkov	Russia  (RUS)	13.31	Q
6	4	4	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.33	Q
7	4	8	Matthias Bühler	Germany  (GER)	13.35	Q, SB
7	2	5	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	France  (FRA)	13.35	Q
9	4	6	Aleec Harris	United States  (USA)	13.41	Q
9	4	2	Greggmar Swift	Barbados  (BAR)	13.41	Q
11	4	3	Jhoanis Portilla	Cuba  (CUB)	13.43	q
11	3	3	Garfield Darien	France  (FRA)	13.43	Q
11	2	4	Andrew Riley	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.43	Q
11	1	4	Omar McLeod	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.43	Q
15	1	7	Xie Wenjun	China  (CHN)	13.44	Q
15	2	8	Gregor Traber	Germany  (GER)	13.44	Q
17	3	6	Balázs Baji	Hungary  (HUN)	13.45	Q
18	5	2	Sekou Kaba	Canada  (CAN)	13.46	Q
19	1	5	Yidiel Contreras	Spain  (ESP)	13.48	Q
20	2	2	Artur Noga	Poland  (POL)	13.49	Q
21	3	4	Johnathan Cabral	Canada  (CAN)	13.55	Q
22	3	9	João Vítor de Oliveira	Brazil  (BRA)	13.57	q
23	3	8	Konstadinos Douvalidis	Greece  (GRE)	13.58	q
24	5	5	Lawrence Clarke	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	13.61	q
25	5	3	Antonio Alkana	South Africa  (RSA)	13.63
26	3	2	Yordan O'Farrill	Cuba  (CUB)	13.64
27	5	9	Eddie Lovett	U.S. Virgin Islands  (ISV)	13.65
28	4	7	Nicholas Hough	Australia  (AUS)	13.69
29	4	9	Ben Reynolds	Ireland  (IRL)	13.72
30	2	9	Ronald Forbes	Cayman Islands  (CAY)	13.78
31	2	7	Jonathan Mendes	Brazil  (BRA)	13.86
32	4	5	Milan Ristić	Serbia  (SRB)	13.89
33	3	1	Bano Traoré	Mali  (MLI)	13.91
34	1	1	Éder Antônio Souza	Brazil  (BRA)	13.96
35	1	2	Jamras Rittidet	Thailand  (THA)	14.00
36	1	6	Welington Zaza	Liberia  (LBR)	14.56
37	3	5	Xaysa Anousone	Laos  (LAO)	14.74
	1	3	Mikel Thomas	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	DQ	R168.7(b)
	1	8	Alexander John	Germany  (GER)	DQ	R162.7
	2	3	Ronnie Ash	United States  (USA)	DQ	R162.7
	2	6	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic  (CZE)	DQ	R162.7
	5	6	Zhang Honglin	China  (CHN)	DNF

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final. ^[10]

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.2 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Aries Merritt	United States  (USA)	13.08	Q, SB
2	1	6	Sergey Shubenkov	Russia  (RUS)	13.09	Q
3	2	6	Omar McLeod	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.14	Q
4	1	5	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.16	Q
4	3	6	Dimitri Bascou	France  (FRA)	13.16	Q, PB
6	3	4	David Oliver	United States  (USA)	13.17	Q
6	2	4	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	France  (FRA)	13.17	q
8	1	4	Garfield Darien	France  (FRA)	13.25	q
9	1	8	Aleec Harris	United States  (USA)	13.29
10	1	7	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados  (BAR)	13.31
11	3	5	Matthias Bühler	Germany  (GER)	13.34	PB
12	2	2	Johnathan Cabral	Canada  (CAN)	13.37	PB
12	2	9	Gregor Traber	Germany  (GER)	13.37
12	3	2	Artur Noga	Poland  (POL)	13.37	SB
15	2	7	Xie Wenjun	China  (CHN)	13.39
16	3	7	Andrew Riley	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.43
17	2	8	Greggmar Swift	Barbados  (BAR)	13.44
18	1	2	João Vítor de Oliveira	Brazil  (BRA)	13.45	PB
19	3	9	Balázs Baji	Hungary  (HUN)	13.51
20	3	3	Lawrence Clarke	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	13.53
21	3	8	Yidiel Contreras	Spain  (ESP)	13.57
22	1	9	Sekou Kaba	Canada  (CAN)	13.58
23	1	1	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic  (CZE)	13.67
24	2	3	Konstadinos Douvalidis	Greece  (GRE)	13.79
	1	3	Jhoanis Portilla	Cuba  (CUB)	DNF

Final

The final was held at 21:20. ^[11]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Sergey Shubenkov	Russia  (RUS)	12.98	NR
	8	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.03	SB
	4	Aries Merritt	United States  (USA)	13.04	SB
4	2	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	France  (FRA)	13.17
5	5	Dimitri Bascou	France  (FRA)	13.17
6	6	Omar McLeod	Jamaica  (JAM)	13.18
7	9	David Oliver	United States  (USA)	13.33
8	3	Garfield Darien	France  (FRA)	13.34

References

1. "Beijing 2015: Timetable". Beijing 2015. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
2. "Merritt goes for gold ahead of kidney op".
3. Start list
4. "Newser | Headline News Summaries, World News, and Breaking News".
5. "REPORT: MEN'S 110M HURDLES FINAL – IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BEIJING 2015". iaaf.org. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
6. "Russia's Sergey Shubenkopv failt to lift gloom over doping allegations". Guardian. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
7. "Records & Lists – 110 meters hurdles". IAAF . Retrieved 17 August 2015.
8. IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards (PDF), IAAF, 2014, retrieved 17 August 2015
9. Heats results
10. Semifinals results
11. Final results