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2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Brathwaite was a much improved hurdler that season, and Dwight Thomas and Maurice Wignall of Jamaica were other contenders.

A. P. Leto High School

Damu Cherry '95 (American Hurdler) Damu Cherry qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.

Abdalá Bucaram

He was also a hurdler in the 1972 Olympic team, the police chief of Guayas and the president of Barcelona Sporting Club, a football team from his hometown.

Albertas Run

In the 2006/7 National Hunt season Albertas Run competed as a Novice Hurdler, winning on his debut over obstacles at Uttoxeter Racecourse in October.

Alwyn Myburgh

Alwyn Myburgh (born 13 October 1980 in Vanderbijlpark) is a South African hurdler.

Annabelle Lewis

She competes abroad regularly now, and is trained by Roger Walters, known by some as the trainer for Sara McGreavy who was an annually top 10 100m hurdler from 2005-2011.

Belgrave Harriers

The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.

Burghley House

Lady Victoria Leatham, antiques expert and television personality, followed her father, Olympic gold-medal winning hurdler and runner, IAAF President and MP David "Burghley" Cecil, the 6th marquess by running the house from 1982 to 2007.

Candy Young

Barely over age 18, she was the second youngest hurdler to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team behind Constance Darnowski.

Christina Vukicevic

Ljubica Christina Vukicevic (Serbian: Ljubica Kristina Vukičević, Љубица Кристина Вукићевић; born 18 June 1987 in Lørenskog) is a Norwegian hurdler of Serbian descent.

Dawn-Marie Layne

She enrolled at the University of the West Indies in 2006 where she continued to play cricket leisurely but represented the University as a Track & Field Athlete specializing in the High Jump; she also represented the Combermere School as a 100 metre Hurdler for the time she was there.

Don Styron

Hurdler Don Styron was a twin, his brother being David Styron (a sprinter), who followed their track coach, Lew Hartzog, from Wheat Ridge High School in Colorado to attend Northeast Louisiana State University.

Flakey Dove

On 1 May, Flakey Dove recorded her best win up to that time when she defeated the former Champion Hurdler Beech Road in the Staffordshire Hurdle at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

Frederick Pollard

Fritz Pollard, Jr. (1915–2003), American Olympic hurdler, son of Fritz Pollard

Gar-Field Senior High School

Sheena Tosta (née Johnson) (Olympic Hurdler; won silver in '08, did not medal in '04)

Joanna Hayes

Joanna Dove Hayes (born December 23, 1976 in Williamsport) is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Josephine Onyia

She changed nationality from Nigeria to Spain in April 2007, following in the footsteps of another hurdler Glory Alozie.

Katie Anderson

Keturah "Katie" Anderson (born 1968), Canadian-Jamaican hurdler and four-time Olympian

Kjellfred Weum

Kjellfred Weum (born 30 July 1940 in Hafslo) is a former Norwegian hurdler.

Laurent Ottoz

While inferior to the last official world record in the race, a hand timed 21.9 by Don Styron in 1960, Ottoz bettered the previous best automatic time 22.63 held by Colin Jackson, arguably the best hurdler in the world at that time.

Leonard Marshall

She had a son, Rod Milburn Jr., who is the son of Olympic Gold Medal winning high hurdler Rod Milburn.

Leslie Maxie

After high school, she studied Public Policy and Planning at the University of Southern California, where she is still ranked as the #2 400 hurdler of all time (school record holder for 13 years until surpassed by future Olympic bronze medalist Tasha Danvers).

Lina Flórez

Lina Flórez (born 2 November 1984 in Carepa) is a Colombian hurdler.

Mahau Suguimati

Mahau Camargo Suguimati (born November 13, 1984 in São Miguel do Araguaia, Goias) is a Brazilian track hurdler of Japanese ancestry.

Melissa Morrison-Howard

Melissa Morrison-Howard (born July 9, 1971 in Mooresville, North Carolina) is an American hurdler best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals.

Mike Fenner

Mike Fenner (born 24 April 1971 in East Berlin) is a retired German hurdler.

Mubarak Ata Mubarak

Mubarak Ata Mubarak (born 17 December 1981) is a Saudi Arabian hurdler.

Nabie Foday Fofanah

His younger sister, Fatmata Fofanah, is a Women's 100 m hurdler, who also competed at the 2008 Olympics for Guinea.

Pëllumb Jusufi

The connection between Jusufi and Pori based team was made by the father of Nooralotta Neziri who is a Finnish hurdler of Macedonian Albanian descent.

Percy Beard

He became a world-class hurdler at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in Auburn, Alabama.

Puchkov

Aleksandr Puchkov (born 1957), retired male hurdler and Olympic bronze medallist

Sandro Calvesi

Ottoz set the Italian national record in the 110 metres hurdles while winning the bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics and was the dominant European hurdler of the 1960s.

Married to 1936 and 1948 Olympian Gabre Gabric, among the people he coached was the Italian hurdler Eddy Ottoz, after became his son-in-law, married to his daughter Lyana Calvesi.

Sébastien Maillard

Sébastien Maillard (born May 2, 1981 in Migennes) is a male hurdler from France.

Shifang protest

Liu's image was photoshopped into other scenes, depicting him chasing after actor Mark Wahlberg and Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang, or appearing in the background of Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Sue Scott

Sue Reeve (née Scott; born 1951), British long jumper and hurdler

Yvonne Kanazawa

She is married to Larry Wade, another former professional hurdler, and she has two sons (Jordan and Brandon).


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