Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	17–18 October
Competitors	38 from 24 nations
Medalists
Hayes Jones  United States Harold Blaine Lindgren  United States Anatoly Mikhailov  Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 110 metres hurdles was the shorter of the men's hurdle races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October and 18 October 1964. 38 athletes from 24 nations entered, with 1 not starting in the first round. The first round was held on 17 October, with the semifinals and the final on 18 October.^[1]

Results

First round

The top three runners in each of the 5 heats as well as the fastest remaining runner advanced.

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.2
2	Willie Davenport	United States	14.2
3	Yasuda Hirokazu	Japan	14.5
4	Folu Erinkle	Nigeria	14.5
5	Aggrey Sheroy Awori	Uganda	14.6
6	Arnaldo Bristol	Puerto Rico	14.6
7	Wallie Babb	Northern Rhodesia	14.7

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harold Blaine Lindgren	United States	14.2
2	Alexandr Kontarev	Soviet Union	14.2
3	Heinrich John	United Team of Germany	14.3
4	Laurie Taitt	Great Britain	14.5
5	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.7
6	Heriberto Cruz	Puerto Rico	14.9
7	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	Argentina	15.2
8	Simbara Maki	Ivory Coast	15.3

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	14.2
2	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.2
3	Bo Erik Forssander	Sweden	14.3
4	Cliff Nuttall	Canada	14.8
5	Bernard Fournet	France	14.8
6	Cetin Sahiner	Turkey	15.1
7	Virgil Okiring	Uganda	15.5
—	Lin Kuei Chang	Republic of China	Did not start

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edy Ottoz	Italy	14.6
2	Lázaro Betancourt	Cuba	14.6
3	Valentin Chistiakov	Soviet Union	14.7
4	Leopold Marien	Belgium	14.9
5	Georges Marsellos	Greece	14.9
6	Kuda Ditta	Malaysia	15.1
7	Christian Voigt	United Team of Germany	15.1
8	Samir Ambrose Vincent	Iraq	16.2

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marcel Duriez	France	14.2
2	Hayes Jones	United States	14.2
3	John Michael Parker	Great Britain	14.2
4	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.3
5	Werner Trzmiel	United Team of Germany	14.3
6	Akira Tanaka	Japan	14.5
7	Edward Akika	Nigeria	14.7

Semifinals

The top four runners in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	13.9
2	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.0
3	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.0
4	Marcel Duriez	France	14.0
5	Heinrich John	United Team of Germany	14.1
6	Lazaro Betancourt	Cuba	14.2
7	Willie Davenport	United States	14.2
—	Valentin Christiakov	Soviet Union	DSQ

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harold Blaine Lindgren	United States	13.9
2	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.0
3	Hayes Jones	United States	14.0
4	Edy Ottoz	Italy	14.1
5	Bo Erik Forssand	Sweden	14.2
6	Alexandr Kontarev	Soviet Union	14.2
7	Yasuda Hirokazu	Japan	14.3
8	John Michael Parker	Great Britain	14.6

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Hayes Jones	United States	13.67
2	Blaine Lindgren	United States	13.74
3	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	13.78
4	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	13.84
5	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	14.09
6	Marcel Duriez	France	14.09
7	Giovanni Cornacchia	Italy	14.12
8	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.17

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