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
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