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1956 Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia - Men's 110 m Hurdles

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Category: 1956 Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia - (Athletics)
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Host City: Melbourne, Australia Format: Top three in each heat advanced to the final.
Date Started: November 27, 1956 Format: Top three in each heat advanced to the final.
Date Finished: November 28, 1956
(Competitors: 24; Countries: 15; Finalists: 6)
Venue(s): Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria
Overview by IAAF  1956_melbournestadium.jpg
In 1952 Dillard and Davis had been in a different class from the opposition, and in Melbourne the superiority of the top two was even more emphatic. Davis ran an unratified 13.3y just before the Games, and had set a world record of 13.4 in the US Championships, but was only just favoured over Calhoun, with whom he had tied for first in the US Olympic Trials. The rivalry between the two men was bitter after Davis had stated that Calhoun was “a flash in the pan” and wouldn’t be able to go the distance outdoors. In the heats Davis and US third string Shankle ran 14.0, while Calhoun and the talented Lauer ran 14.1. All three Americans ran 14.0 in the semi-finals, with Lauer next fastest (14.4). Calhoun and Lorger were fastest off the blocks in the final, and by the second hurdle it was clearly a duel between the two star Americans. The margin scarcely varied from the 30cm Calhoun took at the start and Davis was never able to get closer. The two men flashed across the line in 13.70 and 13.73 respectively, remarkable running on a soft cinder surface into a strong headwind. Experts considered that on a good hard surface and with no wind, the time would have been three or four tenths faster.
Summary by Sports-reference.com
At the US Olympic Trials, Lee Calhoun had tied for first with 1952 silver medalist Jack Davis. Davis was likely a slight favorite, as the world record holder, set in winning the 1956 AAU Championship. The final was close throughout. Calhoun got a slight lead at the start and Davis never fully closed, losing out by 3/100ths of a second at the line. In two consecutive Olympics, Davis had lost the gold medals by a combined margin of 0.12 seconds. Duke University’s Joel Shankle won the bronze medal for the USA, the third consecutive Olympics at which US hurdlers had swept the high hurdle medals.
 
 
Results
110 m Hurdles Men Final 28 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 13.7 Lee Calhoun United States USA 23 OR 13.5 h
2 13.73 Jack Davis United States USA 26 (=)OR 13.5 h
3 14.25 Joel Shankle United States USA 23 14.1 h
4 14.67 Martin Lauer Germany GER 19 14.5 h
5 14.68 Stanko Lorger Yugoslavia YUG 25 14.5 h
6 14.71 Boris Stolyarov Soviet Union URS 24 14.6 h
110 m Hurdles Men Semi-Finals Heat One 28 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.28 Q Jack Davis United States USA 26 14.0 h
2 14.57 Q Martin Lauer Germany GER 19 14.4 h
3 14.73 Q Stanko Lorger Yugoslavia YUG 25 14.6 h
4 14.73 Evaristo Iglesias Cuba CUB 31 14.6 h
5 14.87 Edmond Roudnitska France FRA 25 14.9 h
6 14.95 Danie Burger South Africa RSA 23 15.0 h
110 m Hurdles Men Semi-Finals Heat Two 28 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.18 Q Lee Calhoun United States USA 23 14.0 h
2 14.23 Q Joel Shankle United States USA 23 14.0 h
3 14.64 Q Boris Stolyarov Soviet Union URS 24 14.5 h
4 14.7 Bert Steines Germany GER 26 14.5 h
5 14.74 Ghulam Raziq Pakistan PAK 24 14.6 h
6 14.78 Jean-Claude Bernard France FRA 23 14.6 h
110 m Hurdles Men Round One Heat One 27 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.17 Q Jack Davis United States USA 26 14.0 h
2 14.49 Q Edmond Roudnitska France FRA 25 14.3 h
3 14.65 Q Ghulam Raziq Pakistan PAK 24 14.5 h
4 14.66 Eamonn Kinsella Ireland IRL 24 14.6 h
5 14.98 Ken Doubleday Australia AUS 30 14.8 h
6 15.58 Guillermo Zapata Colombia COL 15.3 h
110 m Hurdles Men Round One Heat Two 27 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.36 Q Lee Calhoun United States USA 23 14.1 h
2 14.75 Q Stanko Lorger Yugoslavia YUG 25 14.6 h
3 14.88 Q Jean-Claude Bernard France FRA 23 14.7 h
4 15 Jack Parker Great Britain GBR 29 14.8 h
5 15.18 John Chittick Australia AUS 19 14.9 h
6 16.32 Kalim Khawaja Ghani Pakistan PAK 16.1 h
110 m Hurdles Men Round One Heat Three 27 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.2 Q Joel Shankle United States USA 23 14.0 h
2 14.59 Q Bert Steines Germany GER 26 14.3 h
3 14.59 Q Danie Burger South Africa RSA 23 14.4 h
4 14.63 Anatoly Mikhaylov Soviet Union URS 20 14.5 h
5 14.65 Keith Gardner Jamaica JAM 27 14.6 h
6 15.02 Bob Joyce Australia AUS 20 14.7 h
110 m Hurdles Men Round One Heat Four 27 November
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Age Records Notes
1 14.41 Q Martin Lauer Germany GER 19 14.2 h
2 14.52 Q Evaristo Iglesias Cuba CUB 31 14.3 h
3 14.54 Q Boris Stolyarov Soviet Union URS 24 14.3 h
4 14.68 Peter Hildreth Great Britain GBR 28 14.5 h
5 15.28 Ioannis Kambadelis Greece GRE 29 15.1 h
6 15.4 Sri Chand Ram India IND 15.2 h
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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