Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metre hurdles

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Athletics at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 110 metre hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 43 competitors, with six qualifying heats (43 runners), four second-round races (32) and two semifinals (16) before the final (8) took place on Monday September 26, 1988.

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[edit] Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
United States Roger Kingdom
United States (USA)
Great Britain Colin Jackson
Great Britain (GBR)
United States Tonie Campbell
United States (USA)

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record 12.93 Flag of the United States Renaldo Nehemiah Zürich (SUI) August 19, 1981
Olympic Record 13.20 Flag of the United States Roger Kingdom Los Angeles (USA) August 6, 1984

Roger Kingdom at first set a new Olympic record with 13.17 seconds in the quarter-finals. In the final he again set a new Olympic record with 12.98 seconds.

[edit] Final

RANK FINAL TIME
Image:Med 1.png United States Roger Kingdom (USA) 12.98
Image:Med 2.png Great Britain Colin Jackson (GBR) 13.28
Image:Med 3.png United States Tonie Campbell (USA) 13.38
4. Soviet Union Vladimir Shishkin (URS) 13.51
5. Great Britain Jonathan Ridgeon (GBR) 13.52
6. Great Britain Tony Jarrett (GBR) 13.54
7. Canada Mark McKoy (CAN) 13.61
8. United States Arthur Blake (USA) 13.96


[edit] Semi Finals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1. Soviet Union Vladimir Shishkin (URS) 13.46
2. United States Tonie Campbell (USA) 13.47
3. Great Britain Colin Jackson (GBR) 13.55
4. Great Britain Jonathan Ridgeon (GBR) 13.68
5. France Stéphane Caristan (FRA) 13.71
6. Spain Carles Sala (ESP) 13.85
7. Belgium Alain Cuypers (BEL) 13.92
8. Jamaica Richard Bucknor (JAM) 13.98


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1. United States Roger Kingdom (USA) 13.37
2. United States Arthur Blake (USA) 13.52
3. Canada Mark McKoy (CAN) 13.54
4. Great Britain Tony Jarrett (GBR) 13.56
5. Czechoslovakia Jiri Hudec (TCH) 13.73
6. China Yu Zhicheng (CHN) 13.94
7. France Philippe Tourret (FRA) 13.96
8. Finland Mikael Ylöstalo (FIN) 14.09



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