Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Men's 110 metres hurdles

at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 5 (heats)
August 6 (semifinals and final)

Competitors

31 from 20 nations

Medalists

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place on August 5 and August 6. The final was won by American Forrest Towns.

Results

The fastest two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Tom Lavery	South Africa	15.0
2	Larry O'Connor	Canada	15.1
3	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	15.2
4	Svend Aage Thomsen	Denmark	15.3
5	Juul Bosmans	Belgium
6	Yasuharu Furuta	Japan

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.7
2	John Thornton	Great Britain	15.0
3	Johann Langmayr	Austria	15.1
4	Willi Welscher	Germany	15.2
5	Huang Yingjie	China	16.9

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.7
2	Tadashi Murakami	Japan	15.3
3	Jim Worrall	Canada	15.6
4	Darcy Guimarães	Brazil
5	Ludvík Kománek	Czechoslovakia

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Roy Staley	United States	15.0
2	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	15.1
3	Ashleigh Pilbrow	Great Britain	15.5
4	Ioannis Skiadas	Greece
5	Lin Shaozhou	China	15.7

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Forrest Towns	United States	14.5
2	Erwin Wegner	Germany	15.1
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	15.3
4	René Kunz	Switzerland
5	Kotaro Shimizu	Japan

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.9
2	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	15.1
3	Gianni Caldana	Italy	15.1
4	Alf Watson	Australia	15.1
5	Miguel White	Philippines

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Forrest Towns	United States	14.1	=WR
2	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.5
3	John Thornton	Great Britain	14.7
4	Roy Staley	United States	14.8
5	Tadashi Murakami	Japan	15.1
6	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	15.6

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.5
2	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.6
3	Larry O'Connor	Canada	15.0
4	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	15.2
5	Erwin Wegner	Germany	15.3
6	Tom Lavery	South Africa	15.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Forrest Towns	United States	14.2
02 !	Don Finlay	Great Britain	14.4
03 !	Fritz Pollard	United States	14.4
4	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.4
5	John Thornton	Great Britain	14.7
6	Larry O'Connor	Canada	14.8

Sprint hurdles at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men's 110 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women's 80 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968

Women's 100 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

See also: Men's 200 m hurdles 1900 • 1904

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