110 metres hurdles 100 yards (91.44 m). The first standards were attempted in 1864 in Oxford and Cambridge: The length of the course was set to 120 yards (109.7 m) and over its course, runners were required to clear ten 3 foot 6 inch (1.07 m) high hurdles. The height and spacing of the hurdles have been related to Imperial units ever since. After the length of the course was rounded up to 110 metres in France in 1888, the standards were pretty much complete (except for Germany where 1 metre high hurdles were used until 1907). The massively constructed hurdles of the
Slovakia at the 1996 Summer Olympics Slovakia at the 1996 Summer Olympics Slovakia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. It was the first Summer Games since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and so the Czech Republic and Slovakia competed as independent teams. Men's 5,000 metres Men's 400m Hurdles Men's Discus Throw Men's 50 km Walk Women's High Jump Women's Triple Jump Women's Long Jump Men's 400 metres Men's 20 km Walk Men's 110m hurdles Men's 10.000 metres Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg) Flat water White water Men's Individual Road Race Men's Individual Time Trial Women's Individual Road