Host City: Montréal, Canada |
Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final. |
Date Started: July 26, 1976 |
Format: Top five in each heat and next fastest advanced to the semi-finals. |
Date Finished: July 28, 1976 |
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(Competitors: 24; Countries: 17; Finalists: 8) |
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Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
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Overview by IAAF |
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With five to qualify from each of the three first round heats, there was little pressure on the favourites. Drut (14.04) eased through his race, while Foster ran the fastest of the day with 13.68. After Foster won the first semi-final in 13.45 from Munkelt (13.48), Casañas then ran 13.34, well clear of Drut (13.49) and Davenport (13.55). Drut got an electrifying start in the final, and was slightly ahead of the rest, led by Davenport, by the first hurdle, with Casañas recovering from a poor start. The top five were all in with a chance of gold until the eighth hurdle, where Drut got away from Davenport, and Casañas went past Munkelt, then Foster, before catching Davenport at the 10th hurdle. Drut led by half a metre at the 10th, and held 30cm of that lead at the finish. France had expected Drut to win, and he performed brilliantly under that pressure, as did Davenport, competing in his fourth straight Olympics, a remarkable record. |
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Summary by Sports-reference.com |
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The silver medalist from 1972, Guy Drut (FRA), had won the 1974 European Championships and was favored in Montréal, the first time in memory that the favorite was not an American. In 1975 Drut had first equaled the hand-timed world record of 13.1 and then broke it with 13.0 at the ISTAF Meet in Berlin in August. He was expected to be challenged by 1975 Pan-American Games champion Alejandro Casañas of Cuba. There was no dominant US hurdler in 1976. Drut was under significant pressure to win by French fans but came thru with the gold medal, Casañas winning silver over the 1968 gold medalist, Willie Davenport. It was Davenport’s fourth Olympics, and he would compete in a fifth one in 1980 at Lake Placid as a bobsledder. |
Records
These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.
World Record |
13.24 |
Rod Milburn |
Munich (FRG) |
September 7, 1972 |
Olympic Record |
13.24 |
Rod Milburn |
Munich (FRG) |
September 7, 1972 |
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Results |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Final |
28 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.30 |
0 |
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Guy Drut |
France |
FRA |
6 Dec 50 |
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2 |
13.33 |
0 |
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Alejandro Casañas |
Cuba |
CUB |
29 Jan 54 |
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3 |
13.38 |
0 |
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Willie Davenport |
United States |
USA |
8 Jun 43 |
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4 |
13.41 |
0 |
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Charles Foster |
United States |
USA |
2 Jul 53 |
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5 |
13.44 |
0 |
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Thomas Munkelt |
East Germany |
GDR |
3 Aug 52 |
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6 |
13.73 |
0 |
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James Owens |
United States |
USA |
5 Jul 55 |
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7 |
13.93 |
0 |
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Vyacheslav Kulebyakin |
Soviet Union |
URS |
30 Nov 50 |
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8 |
13.94 |
0 |
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Viktor Myasnikov |
Soviet Union |
URS |
3 Sep 48 |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Semifinal 1 |
28 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.45 |
0 |
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Charles Foster |
United States |
USA |
2 Jul 53 |
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2 |
13.48 |
0 |
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Thomas Munkelt |
East Germany |
GDR |
3 Aug 52 |
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3 |
13.70 |
0 |
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Viktor Myasnikov |
Soviet Union |
URS |
3 Sep 48 |
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4 |
13.76 |
0 |
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James Owens |
United States |
USA |
5 Jul 55 |
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5 |
13.78 |
0 |
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Berwyn Price |
Great Britain |
GBR |
15 Aug 51 |
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6 |
13.88 |
0 |
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Warren Parr |
Australia |
AUS |
25 Jan 52 |
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7 |
13.97 |
0 |
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Jean-Pierre Corval |
France |
FRA |
16 Jan 49 |
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8 |
13.97 |
0 |
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Gianni Ronconi |
Italy |
ITA |
4 Nov 52 |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Semifinal 2 |
28 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.34 |
0 |
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Alejandro Casañas |
Cuba |
CUB |
29 Jan 54 |
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2 |
13.49 |
0 |
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Guy Drut |
France |
FRA |
6 Dec 50 |
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3 |
13.55 |
0 |
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Willie Davenport |
United States |
USA |
8 Jun 43 |
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4 |
13.59 |
0 |
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Vyacheslav Kulebyakin |
Soviet Union |
URS |
30 Nov 50 |
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5 |
13.74 |
0 |
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Frank Siebeck |
East Germany |
GDR |
17 Aug 49 |
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6 |
13.98 |
0 |
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Arnaldo Bristol |
Puerto Rico |
PUR |
11 Sep 45 |
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7 |
14.06 |
0 |
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Giuseppe Buttari |
Italy |
ITA |
16 Feb 51 |
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8 |
14.21 |
0 |
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Ahmed Ishtiaq Mobarak |
Malaysia |
MAS |
6 Feb 48 |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 1 |
26 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.68 |
0 |
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Charles Foster |
United States |
USA |
2 Jul 53 |
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2 |
13.82 |
0 |
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Berwyn Price |
Great Britain |
GBR |
15 Aug 51 |
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3 |
13.99 |
0 |
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Vyacheslav Kulebyakin |
Soviet Union |
URS |
30 Nov 50 |
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4 |
14.00 |
0 |
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Jean-Pierre Corval |
France |
FRA |
16 Jan 49 |
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5 |
14.01 |
0 |
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Frank Siebeck |
East Germany |
GDR |
17 Aug 49 |
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6 |
14.10 |
0 |
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Gianni Ronconi |
Italy |
ITA |
4 Nov 52 |
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7 |
14.20 |
0 |
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Abdoulaye Sarr |
Senegal |
SEN |
9 Dec 47 |
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8 |
15.54 |
0 |
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Conrad Mainwaring |
Antigua and Barbuda |
ANT |
2 Oct 51 |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 2 |
26 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.70 |
0 |
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Willie Davenport |
United States |
USA |
8 Jun 43 |
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2 |
13.73 |
0 |
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Alejandro Casañas |
Cuba |
CUB |
29 Jan 54 |
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3 |
14.04 |
0 |
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Guy Drut |
France |
FRA |
6 Dec 50 |
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4 |
14.04 |
0 |
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Arnaldo Bristol |
Puerto Rico |
PUR |
11 Sep 45 |
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5 |
14.27 |
0 |
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Ahmed Ishtiaq Mobarak |
Malaysia |
MAS |
6 Feb 48 |
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6 |
14.33 |
0 |
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Efstratios Vasiliou |
Greece |
GRE |
12 Dec 48 |
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7 |
14.56 |
0 |
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José Cartas |
Mexico |
MEX |
19 Sep 51 |
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DNF |
0 |
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Max Binnington |
Australia |
AUS |
8 Mar 49 |
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110 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 3 |
26 July |
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Rank |
Mark |
Wind |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
13.69 |
0 |
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Thomas Munkelt |
East Germany |
GDR |
3 Aug 52 |
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2 |
13.81 |
0 |
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Viktor Myasnikov |
Soviet Union |
URS |
3 Sep 48 |
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3 |
13.88 |
0 |
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Giuseppe Buttari |
Italy |
ITA |
16 Feb 51 |
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4 |
14.02 |
0 |
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Warren Parr |
Australia |
AUS |
25 Jan 52 |
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5 |
14.03 |
0 |
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James Owens |
United States |
USA |
5 Jul 55 |
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6 |
14.13 |
0 |
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Danny Smith |
Bahamas |
BAH |
15 May 52 |
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7 |
14.23 |
0 |
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Daniel Taillon |
Canada |
CAN |
9 Oct 52 |
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8 |
15.97 |
0 |
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Saleh Mubarak Faraj |
Kuwait |
KUW |
5 Feb 55 |
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