100 metres 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 first hurdle is placed after a run-up of 13 metres from the starting line. The next 9 hurdles are set at a distance of 8.5 metres from each other, and the home stretch from the last hurdle to the finish line is 10.5 metres long. The hurdles are set up so that they will
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: