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.

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 Sabato	Puerto Rico	14.6
7	Walter Delville 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	Germany	14.3
4	Lawrence Taitt	Great Britain	14.5
5	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	14.7
6	Heriberto Cruz	Puerto Rico	14.9
7	Juan Carlos Pablo Dyrzka	Argentina	15.2
8	Simara Demeble Maki	Côte d'Ivoire	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	Clifford Ross Nuttall	Canada	14.8
5	Bernard Fournet	France	14.8
6	Cetin Sahiner	Turkey	15.1
7	Vircil Okiring	Uganda	15.5
—	Lin Kuei Chang	Taiwan	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	Ditta Kuda	Malaysia	15.1
7	Christian Voigt	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	Germany	14.3
6	Tanaka Akira	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	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	Harold Blaine Lindgren	United States	13.74
3	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	13.78
4	Edy 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

References

• Official Report

Automatic times for final