100 metres hurdles Masters athletics. They run the same spacing as women, which coordinates with existing markings on most tracks, but run over 36-inch (0.915 m) hurdles. In the 60-69 age range, the spacings are changed. Women over age 40 and men over age 70 run 80 metre versions with different heights and spacings. 100 m hurdles: 100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles took another .02 off his national record for the bronze, the rest of the field was not even close, more than a quarter of a second behind. Merritt moves past Renaldo Nehemiah to become the #7 hurdler of all time. The Men's 110m Hurdles competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals. Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: