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 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles as Olympic Champion in 1960 leading another American sweep over Lauer. Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles These are the official results of the Men's 110m Hurdles event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were a total number of 24 athletes. The event took place on 27 and 28 November 1956. Jack Davis came into the Olympics with the world record, having run 13.4 in a qualifying heat at the national championships a week before the Olympic trials. That was 5 months earlier. Here the three Americans were the class of the