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110 metres Hurdles, Men

Date	3 – 5 September 1960
Status	Olympic
Location	Stadio Olimpico, Roma
Participants	36 from 21 countries

The defending champion, Lee Calhoun, was considered the favorite, having tied the world record of 13.2 only a few weeks before the Olympics. But the record he tied was set by Germany’s Martin Lauer, the 1958 European Champion, who was expected to challenge Calhoun. But that never occurred. In the final Calhoun had the best start and was never caught. Willie May (USA) closed throughout, finishing only 1/100th back at the line. Calhoun defended his gold medal, winning the two races by a combined margin of 0.04 seconds. Hayes Jones completed the US sweep, as Lauer finished fourth. This was the fourth consecutive medal sweep in the high hurdles for the US, a feat only accomplished three other times at the Olympics. Norway swept the medals in Nordic combined skiing from 1924-36, and American divers swept both the men’s and women’s springboard diving medals at six consecutive Olympics.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	QF	SF	Final
1	413	Lee Calhoun	USA	14.3 (1 h4)	14.1 (1 h1)	13.7 (1 h2)	13.8 (1)	Gold
2	415	Willie May	USA	14.0 (1 h3)	13.8 (1 h3)	13.7 (1 h1)	13.8 (2)	Silver
3	414	Hayes Jones	USA	14.2 (1 h2)	14.1 (1 h4)	14.1 (2 h1)	14.0 (3)	Bronze
4	280	Martin Lauer	GER	14.3 (1 h1)	13.9 (1 h2)	14.0 (2 h2)	14.0 (4)
5	99	Keith Gardner	WIF	14.3 (1 h5)	14.3 (2 h2)	14.2 (3 h1)	14.4 (5)
6	563	Valentin Chistyakov	URS	14.3 (2 h3)	14.3 (2 h4)	14.3 (3 h2)	14.6 (6)
4 h1 r3/4	604	Nereo Svara	ITA	14.9 (3 h5)	14.4 (3 h4)	14.3 (4 h1)	–
4 h2 r3/4	118	Ghulam Raziq	PAK	14.6 (3 h4)	14.4 (3 h2)	14.3 (4 h2)	–
5 h1 r3/4	77	Jean Baptiste Okello	UGA	14.4 (2 h1)	14.3 (2 h1)	14.4 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r3/4	316	Stanko Lorger	YUG	14.4 (2 h5)	14.4 (3 h3)	14.5 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r3/4	564	Nikolay Berezutsky	URS	14.3 (2 h2)	14.4 (3 h1)	14.6 (6 h1)	–
AC h2 r3/4	562	Anatoly Mikhaylov	URS	14.4 (1 h6)	13.9 (2 h3)	– (DNF h2)	–
4 h1 r2/4	606	Giovanni Cornacchia	ITA	14.6 (3 h1)	14.5 (4 h1)	–	–
4 h2 r2/4	476	Edmond Roudnitska	FRA	14.4 (2 h4)	14.5 (4 h2)	–	–
4 h3 r2/4	74	Aggrey Awori	UGA	15.2 (4 h6)	14.8 (4 h3)	–	–
4 h4 r2/4	527	Roman Muzyk	POL	14.8 (3 h6)	14.5 (4 h4)	–	–
5 h1 r2/4	639	Peter Hildreth	GBR	14.8 (4 h4)	14.6 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r2/4	317	Milad Petrušić	YUG	14.6 (3 h2)	14.6 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r2/4	281	Klaus Gerbig	GER	14.7 (4 h3)	14.8 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r2/4	640	Bob Birrell	GBR	14.7 (3 h3)	14.6 (5 h4)	–	–
6 h1 r2/4	282	Karl-Ernst Schottes	GER	14.8 (2 h6)	14.6 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r2/4	605	Paolo Zamboni	ITA	14.7 (4 h2)	14.9 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r2/4	641	Vic Matthews	GBR	14.9 (4 h5)	15.0 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r2/4	475	Marcel Duriez	FRA	14.7 (4 h1)	15.0 (6 h4)	–	–
5 h1 r1/4	177	Seraphino Antao	KEN	15.0 (5 h1)	–	–	–
5 h2 r1/4	15	John Chittick	AUS	14.7 (5 h2)	–	–	–
5 h3 r1/4	50	Saka Oloko	NGR	14.9 (5 h3)	–	–	–
5 h4 r1/4	332	Georgios Marsellos	GRE	14.8 (5 h4)	–	–	–
5 h5 r1/4	693	Jagmohan Singh	IND	15.2 (5 h5)	–	–	–
5 h6 r1/4	477	Jacques Deprez	FRA	17.1 (5 h6)	–	–	–
6 h1 r1/4	665	Çetin Şahiner	TUR	15.6 (6 h1)	–	–	–
6 h3 r1/4	25	Nazzar Al-Jamali	IRQ	15.8 (6 h3)	–	–	–
6 h4 r1/4	388	Pétur Rögnvaldsson	ISL	15.2 (6 h4)	–	–	–
6 h5 r1/4	119	Abdul Malik	PAK	15.4 (6 h5)	–	–	–
AC h2 r1/4	5	Abdul Wardak	AFG	– (DNF h2)	–	–	–
AC h4 r1/4	61	Isaac Elie	SUD	– (DNF h4)	–	–	–
DNS	188	Eef Kamerbeek	NED	– (DNS h6)	–	–	–

Round One (3 September 1960 — 9:00)

Top four in each heat advanced to the quarter-finals.

Heat One

Wind	0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	6	Martin Lauer	GER	14.3	14.45	Q
2	5	Jean Baptiste Okello	UGA	14.4	14.59	Q
3	2	Giovanni Cornacchia	ITA	14.6	14.77	Q
4	4	Marcel Duriez	FRA	14.7	14.90	Q
5	3	Seraphino Antao	KEN	15.0	15.13
6	1	Çetin Şahiner	TUR	15.6	15.75

Heat Two

Wind	0.4 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	4	Hayes Jones	USA	14.2	14.32	Q
2	3	Nikolay Berezutsky	URS	14.3	14.50	Q
3	5	Milad Petrušić	YUG	14.6	14.74	Q
4	6	Paolo Zamboni	ITA	14.7	14.82	Q
5	2	John Chittick	AUS	14.7	14.86
DNF	1	Abdul Wardak	AFG	–	–

Heat Three

Wind	0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	5	Willie May	USA	14.0	14.16	Q
2	3	Valentin Chistyakov	URS	14.3	14.45	Q
3	1	Bob Birrell	GBR	14.7	14.82	Q
4	4	Klaus Gerbig	GER	14.7	14.87	Q
5	6	Saka Oloko	NGR	14.9	15.04
6	2	Nazzar Al-Jamali	IRQ	15.8	15.99

Heat Four

Wind	0.9 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	5	Lee Calhoun	USA	14.3	14.37	Q
2	2	Edmond Roudnitska	FRA	14.4	14.53	Q
3	1	Ghulam Raziq	PAK	14.6	14.68	Q
4	6	Peter Hildreth	GBR	14.8	14.90	Q
5	7	Georgios Marsellos	GRE	14.8	14.92
6	4	Pétur Rögnvaldsson	ISL	15.2	15.38
DNF	3	Isaac Elie	SUD	–	–

Heat Five

Wind	0.9 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	6	Keith Gardner	WIF	14.3	14.46	Q
2	4	Stanko Lorger	YUG	14.4	14.56	Q
3	5	Nereo Svara	ITA	14.9	15.03	Q
4	1	Vic Matthews	GBR	14.9	15.07	Q
5	3	Jagmohan Singh	IND	15.2	15.34
6	2	Abdul Malik	PAK	15.4	15.52

Heat Six

Wind	0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	4	Anatoly Mikhaylov	URS	14.4	14.53	Q
2	5	Karl-Ernst Schottes	GER	14.8	14.90	Q
3	3	Roman Muzyk	POL	14.8	14.94	Q
4	6	Aggrey Awori	UGA	15.2	15.36	Q
5	2	Jacques Deprez	FRA	17.1	17.24
DNS	1	Eef Kamerbeek	NED	–	–

Quarter-Finals (3 September 1960 — 18:10)

Top three in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	413	Lee Calhoun	USA	14.1	14.16	Q
2	77	Jean Baptiste Okello	UGA	14.3	14.48	Q
3	564	Nikolay Berezutsky	URS	14.4	14.57	Q
4	606	Giovanni Cornacchia	ITA	14.5	14.68
5	639	Peter Hildreth	GBR	14.6	14.78
6	282	Karl-Ernst Schottes	GER	14.6	14.81

Heat Two

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	280	Martin Lauer	GER	13.9	14.06	Q
2	99	Keith Gardner	WIF	14.3	14.45	Q
3	118	Ghulam Raziq	PAK	14.4	14.51	Q
4	476	Edmond Roudnitska	FRA	14.5	14.66
5	317	Milad Petrušić	YUG	14.6	14.71
6	605	Paolo Zamboni	ITA	14.9	15.02

Heat Three

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	415	Willie May	USA	13.8	13.92	Q
2	562	Anatoly Mikhaylov	URS	13.9	14.02	Q
3	316	Stanko Lorger	YUG	14.4	14.56	Q
4	74	Aggrey Awori	UGA	14.8	14.94
5	281	Klaus Gerbig	GER	14.8	14.97
6	641	Vic Matthews	GBR	15.0	15.12

Heat Four

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	414	Hayes Jones	USA	14.1	14.19	Q
2	563	Valentin Chistyakov	URS	14.3	14.51	Q
3	604	Nereo Svara	ITA	14.4	14.59	Q
4	527	Roman Muzyk	POL	14.5	14.68
5	640	Bob Birrell	GBR	14.6	14.78
6	475	Marcel Duriez	FRA	15.0	15.19

Semi-Finals (5 September 1960 — 15:15)

Top three in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One

Wind	0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	4	Willie May	USA	13.7	13.87	Q
2	6	Hayes Jones	USA	14.1	14.22	Q
3	2	Keith Gardner	WIF	14.2	14.32	Q
4	5	Nereo Svara	ITA	14.3	14.50
5	3	Jean Baptiste Okello	UGA	14.4	14.59
6	1	Nikolay Berezutsky	URS	14.6	14.69

Heat Two

Wind	0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	1	Lee Calhoun	USA	13.7	13.88	Q
2	4	Martin Lauer	GER	14.0	14.13	Q
3	3	Valentin Chistyakov	URS	14.3	14.46	Q
4	5	Ghulam Raziq	PAK	14.3	14.49
5	2	Stanko Lorger	YUG	14.5	14.83
DNF	6	Anatoly Mikhaylov	URS	–	–

Final (5 September 1960 — 16:45)

Wind	0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)	Time (A)
1	2	Lee Calhoun	USA	13.8	13.98
2	1	Willie May	USA	13.8	13.99
3	6	Hayes Jones	USA	14.0	14.17
4	3	Martin Lauer	GER	14.0	14.20
5	4	Keith Gardner	WIF	14.4	14.55
6	5	Valentin Chistyakov	URS	14.6	14.71