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1976 Olympic Games Montreal - Men's 110 m hurdles

 

 

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  
(Competitors: 24; Countries: 17; Finalists: 8)  
    Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Overview by IAAF   1976_olympic_stadium.jpg 
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.
       
Summary by Sports-reference.com      
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 United States Rod Milburn Munich (FRG) September 7, 1972
Olympic Record 13.24 United States Rod Milburn Munich (FRG) September 7, 1972
 
        Results        
 
110 m hurdles Men     Final 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.30 0   Guy Drut France FRA 6 Dec 50  
2 13.33 0   Alejandro Casañas Cuba CUB 29 Jan 54  
3 13.38 0   Willie Davenport United States USA 8 Jun 43  
4 13.41 0   Charles Foster United States USA 2 Jul 53  
5 13.44 0   Thomas Munkelt East Germany GDR 3 Aug 52  
6 13.73 0   James Owens United States USA 5 Jul 55  
7 13.93 0   Vyacheslav Kulebyakin Soviet Union URS 30 Nov 50  
8 13.94 0   Viktor Myasnikov Soviet Union URS 3 Sep 48  
110 m hurdles Men     Semifinal 1 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.45 0   Charles Foster United States USA 2 Jul 53  
2 13.48 0   Thomas Munkelt East Germany GDR 3 Aug 52  
3 13.70 0   Viktor Myasnikov Soviet Union URS 3 Sep 48  
4 13.76 0   James Owens United States USA 5 Jul 55  
5 13.78 0   Berwyn Price Great Britain GBR 15 Aug 51  
6 13.88 0   Warren Parr Australia AUS 25 Jan 52  
7 13.97 0   Jean-Pierre Corval France FRA 16 Jan 49  
8 13.97 0   Gianni Ronconi Italy ITA 4 Nov 52  
110 m hurdles Men     Semifinal 2 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.34 0   Alejandro Casañas Cuba CUB 29 Jan 54  
2 13.49 0   Guy Drut France FRA 6 Dec 50  
3 13.55 0   Willie Davenport United States USA 8 Jun 43  
4 13.59 0   Vyacheslav Kulebyakin Soviet Union URS 30 Nov 50  
5 13.74 0   Frank Siebeck East Germany GDR 17 Aug 49  
6 13.98 0   Arnaldo Bristol Puerto Rico PUR 11 Sep 45  
7 14.06 0   Giuseppe Buttari Italy ITA 16 Feb 51  
8 14.21 0   Ahmed Ishtiaq Mobarak Malaysia MAS 6 Feb 48  
110 m hurdles Men     Heat 1 26 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.68 0   Charles Foster United States USA 2 Jul 53  
2 13.82 0   Berwyn Price Great Britain GBR 15 Aug 51  
3 13.99 0   Vyacheslav Kulebyakin Soviet Union URS 30 Nov 50  
4 14.00 0   Jean-Pierre Corval France FRA 16 Jan 49  
5 14.01 0   Frank Siebeck East Germany GDR 17 Aug 49  
6 14.10 0   Gianni Ronconi Italy ITA 4 Nov 52  
7 14.20 0   Abdoulaye Sarr Senegal SEN 9 Dec 47  
8 15.54 0   Conrad Mainwaring Antigua and Barbuda ANT 2 Oct 51  
110 m hurdles Men     Heat 2 26 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.70 0   Willie Davenport United States USA 8 Jun 43  
2 13.73 0   Alejandro Casañas Cuba CUB 29 Jan 54  
3 14.04 0   Guy Drut France FRA 6 Dec 50  
4 14.04 0   Arnaldo Bristol Puerto Rico PUR 11 Sep 45  
5 14.27 0   Ahmed Ishtiaq Mobarak Malaysia MAS 6 Feb 48  
6 14.33 0   Efstratios Vasiliou Greece GRE 12 Dec 48  
7 14.56 0   José Cartas Mexico MEX 19 Sep 51  
  DNF 0   Max Binnington Australia AUS 8 Mar 49  
110 m hurdles Men     Heat 3 26 July      
                 
Rank Mark Wind   Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 13.69 0   Thomas Munkelt East Germany GDR 3 Aug 52  
2 13.81 0   Viktor Myasnikov Soviet Union URS 3 Sep 48  
3 13.88 0   Giuseppe Buttari Italy ITA 16 Feb 51  
4 14.02 0   Warren Parr Australia AUS 25 Jan 52  
5 14.03 0   James Owens United States USA 5 Jul 55  
6 14.13 0   Danny Smith Bahamas BAH 15 May 52  
7 14.23 0   Daniel Taillon Canada CAN 9 Oct 52  
8 15.97 0   Saleh Mubarak Faraj Kuwait KUW 5 Feb 55  
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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