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.
In the 1932 Olympics, Bob Tisdall famously won the Olympic Gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles in World Record time, but was not credited with the record due to knocking over a hurdle.
Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Brathwaite was a much improved hurdler that season, and Dwight Thomas and Maurice Wignall of Jamaica were other contenders.
Andrew William Pozzi (born 15 May 1992) is a British hurdling athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles.
Moore set hurdles records for New South Wales during the 1950s while completing her MSc in chemistry with Arthur Birch at the University of Sydney.
She attended Penn Wood High School and enjoyed her first athletic successes in 1991 when she won four Pennsylvania state titles in the jumps and hurdles and won a bronze medal at the United States Junior Championships.
Fighting Fifth Hurdle, a hurdling horse race in the United Kingdom named for the regiment.
After a three-year break from teaching she took a job at Matthew Arnold School, Staines, where she taught English and history, coached hurdling and wrote the annual school play until her retirement to Corfe Mullen, Dorset in 1961.
Irina Privalova (born 1968), (née Sergeyeva) sprint athlete and Olympic gold medallist in hurdling
Born in Scarborough, Tobago, Lucas' first success was a win at the national championships in the 400 metres in 2005, but she focused on hurdling instead.
Melissa Morrison-Howard (born July 9, 1971 in Mooresville, North Carolina) is an American hurdler best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals.
At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, Kilborn became one of the stars of the Games, upsetting world-record holder Betty Moore in the 80 m hurdles race before winning the long jump contest ahead of two countrywomen Helen Frith (silver) and Janet Knee (bronze).
A much-anticipated showdown with hurdling great Gail Devers took place in March 2004, Perdita Felicien set a new record in defeating the three-time hurdles world champion in the 60 m hurdle final at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Peter Hildreth (8 July 1928 – 25 February 2011) was a British hurdling athlete.
Wu was recruited to begin training in hurdling when she was a fifth-grade student in elementary school in Doumen District, Zhuhai.
His mother, Yordanka Donkova, is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships.