110m - 100m hurdles champions and records

The first official IAAF world record in the 110m hurdles was recorded in London on July 27th 1908 by the American Forrest Smithson. He was the first of 18 US athletes to hold the world record since then.
In this special ranking the US are sweeping the field, followed by Sweden and Cuba with 2 athletes and China, South Africa, Finland, Canada, Germany and Great Britain with one each.
The top ten performances of all time in the 110m hurdles are summarised below:

 Rank
Time
 
Athlete
Nation
Date
Location
1
12.87
 
Dayron Robles
 Cuba
June 12, 2008
Ostrava
2
12.88
 
Liu Xiang
 China
July 11, 2006
Lausanne
3
12.90
 
Dominique Arnold
 United States
July 11, 2006
Lausanne
4
12.91
 
Colin Jackson
 United Kingdom
August 20, 1993
Stuttgart
5
12.92
 
Roger Kingdom
 United States
August 16, 1989
Zürich
 
Allen Johnson
 United States
June 23, 1996
Atlanta
7
12.93
 
Renaldo Nehemiah
 United States
August 19, 1981
Zürich
8
12.94
 
Jack Pierce
 United States
June 22, 1996
Atlanta
9
12.95
 
Terrence Trammell
 United States
June 2, 2007
New York City
 
David Oliver
 United States
May 9, 2008
Doha

TWO ALL-TIME GREATS:  Nehemiah and Jackson

Renaldo Nehemiah (USA): He was in 1980 a full two metres faster than the next best performer ever but the US boycott robbed him of his chance of Olympic glory. Next year he was first to dip under 13 sec.
Colin Jackson (GBR): The Welshman set the current world record of 12.91 winning the 1993 world title. He took his second world title in 1999. He has recorded more world-class times than anyone and has been among the elite since 1986. At sub-13.10, sub-13.20 and sub 13.30 Jackson is comfortably ahead of all rivals with 33, 111 and 178 performances respectively. Retired in 2003 after indoor season.

Amongst the ladies, in the 100m hurdles, the first official world record was run by the Polish athlete Teresa Sukniewicz on June 20, 1969, in Warsaw (Poland).
Russian bloc athletes dominated the field: the world record was beaten 22 other times since then, 20 times by East German, Polish or Bulgarian athletes, and once each by an Australian and a representative of Chinese Taipei.
The all-time top ten timings are as follows:

Pos.
Time
Athlete
Country
Venua
Date
1
12.21 (+0.7)
Yordanka Donkova
 Bulgaria
Stara Zagora
August 20, 1988
2
12.25 (+1.4)
Ginka Zagorcheva
 Bulgaria
Drama
August 8, 1987
3
12.26 (+1.7)
Ludmila Engquist
 Russia
Seville
June 6, 1992
4
12.33 (−0.3)
Gail Devers
 United States
Sacramento
July 23, 2000
5
12.36 (+1.9)
Grażyna Rabsztyn
 Poland
Warsaw
June 13, 1980
6
12.37 (+1.5)
Joanna Hayes
 United States
Athens
August 24, 2004
7
12.39 (+1.5)
Vera Komisova
 Soviet Union
Rome
August 5, 1980
7
12.39 (+1.8)
Natalya Grigoryeva
 Soviet Union
Kiev
July 11, 1991
9
12.42 (+1.8)
Bettine Jahn
 East Germany
Berlin
June 8, 1983
9
12.42 (+2.0)
Anjanette Kirkland
 United States
Edmonton
August 11, 2001

 
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