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unusual facts about hurdles



1906 Michigan Wolverines football team

He broke world records in the discus throw and high hurdles and won two medals in the 1908 Summer Olympics – a silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles and a bronze medal in the shot put.

1935 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-yard sprint, the 220-yard sprint, the 220-yard low hurdles, and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

1936 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 110-meter high hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

Angelo Taylor

Taylor made his debut in a major international meet at the 1999 World Championships, where he finished third in his heat in 400 m hurdles, but ran a third leg at the gold medal winning US 4x400 m relay team.

Betty Moore

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.

Brian Fryer

As an intermediate boy in his grade 11 year at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association provincial track and field meet in Calgary, Fryer won and set the ASAA record for the 120 yard hurdles with a time of 14.4 seconds.

Brooks Johnson

His first was 1960 110-meter hurdles silver medalist Willie May.

Calvin Davis

Davis competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas, primarily as a flat 400 meter sprinter, not learning the hurdles until later.

Clyde Scott

He competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the silver medal.

Dahmar Wartts-Smiles

Smiles ran for Saint Louis University and holds the school records in the 55 meter high hurdles, 60 meter high hurdles, 110 meter high hurdles, and 400 meter hurdles.

At the 2009 Atlantic 10 Track and Field Championships held in Charlotte, N.C. at the Irwin Bell Track and Field Center on the Charlotte campus he finished second in the 400-meter hurdles with a school-record (SLU) time and PR of 53.12.

Dawn Burrell

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.

Desert Orchid

David Elsworth's grey was no longer eligible for novice hurdles in 1984/5 and struggled to recapture his early form.

Dilīpa

In a bid to prevent Dileepa from equalling his record, Indra placed many hurdles in the path of the successful completion of the 100th yajna, but Raghu, son of Dilipa, was able to prevail over the forces of Indra, and the yajna was completed successfully.

Esther Roth-Shahamorov

Her time of 12.93 seconds in 100m hurdles, set in Berlin shortly after the 1976 Summer Olympics, held as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken by Irina Lenskiy in 2002.

Ferry Field

In 1935 Ohio State sprinter Jesse Owens set world records in the 220 yard dash, the 200 meter dash, the 220 yard low hurdles, the 200 meter low hurdles, and the long jump, and tied the world record in the 100 yard dash.

GetDeb

Debian packages (in combination with APT) package software such that it can easily be installed in a user-friendly point-and-click manner on Debian (and subsequently, several other Linux distributions), removing hurdles for less-technical users.

Ginnie Crawford

She first competed in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2005, and reached the final of the sprint hurdles competition at the 2007 and 2009 editions, finishing fifth and sixth respectively.

Hap Moran

As a passer his favorite receiver was Morgan Taylor, who won the first Gold Medal for the United States in the 1924 Olympics in Paris running the 400-meter hurdles.

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

Hemery

David Hemery (b. 18 July 1944), a British athlete, winner of the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Henry Andrade

Earlier in the season, he set the Cape Verde national record in the 110 hurdles 13.78 at the Modesto Relays.

Jean Pickering

Desforges was an eight-time British champion in athletics, having won the 80 m hurdles four time (1949, 1952, 1953 and 1954), the long jump twice (1953 and 1954), and the pentathlon twice (1953 and 1954).

John Milton Yinger

At university, was part of the athletics track team, running flat races and hurdles, at one point racing against Jesse Owens.

John Uelses

He attended Miami High School, first running hurdles and throwing events before a friend enticed him to pole vault.

Kelsey Balkwill

She is a graduate of Essex District High School in Essex, Ontario where she was a 6-time outdoor provincial champion in the 400m and intermediate hurdles.

Kim Turner

Kimberly "Kim" Turner-McKenzie (born March 21, 1961 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 meter Hurdles.

While at Mumford High School in Detroit, Michigan she set the still standing NFHS national high school record in the 110 yard hurdles at 13.6.

Low hurdles

The high school record in the 180 yard low hurdles dates to 1964 when three boys, Earl McCullouch from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Don Castronovo from Oceanside High School in Oceanside, New York and Steve Caminiti from Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California separately ran the 180 yard low hurdles at 18.1.

Lucie Škrobáková

In 2002 Škrobáková recorded 8.28 s in the 60 metre hurdles, in February, and 13.46 s in the 100 metre hurdles, in June.

Mel Renfro

In 1962 Renfro contributed to the university's first NCAA team championship by finishing second behind teammate Jerry Tarr in the 120-yard high hurdles with a 13.8 time and third in the long jump with a 25-11 1/4 inch leap.

Mozambique at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Mutola did run a seasonal best in the final, while Kurt Couto, who did not advance in the 400 metre hurdles, set a new national record in that event.

Nelson Amendment

Until Scott Brown's election to the Senate in January 2010, the Nelson Amendment was viewed by the pro-choice leadership of the Democratic party as one of the big hurdles in passing legislation, along with other significant issues such as the public option.

Nutrilite

As spokespersons for the brand, Nutrilite has signed 2008 Olympic gold medalist (4 x 100m relay) Asafa Powell of Jamaica; former 110m men's hurdles world record holder Liu Xiang of China; 2008 Olympic gold and bronze track and field medalist Sanya Richards, FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho; and 2008 Olympic silver medalist in pole vault, Jenn Stuczynski.

Percy Beard

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

Periklis Iakovakis

After his win at the European Championships, Iakovakis won the full-lap hurdles event in 47.92 seconds at the Zurich Weltklasse Golden League meet at the last evening that this top meeting would be held at the Letzigrund.

Premier Kelso Hurdle

It is run at Kelso over a distance of about 2 miles and 2 furlongs (3,621 metres), and during its running there are ten hurdles to be jumped.

RBC Olympians

Perdita Felicien, 100m hurdles, Gold Medal: 2003 World Championships, Silver Medal: 2007 World Championships

Robert Leavitt

At Athens, American Hugo Friend was favored to win the gold medal in high hurdles.

Ron Warhurst

In 2007, Jeff Porter won the NCAA indoor championship in the 60-meter hurdles.

Thoroughbred racing in Australia

The two forms of Thoroughbred horseracing in Australia are flat racing, and races over fences or hurdles in Victoria and South Australia.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.

Vyacheslav Sakayev

Vyacheslav Sakayev (Сакаев Вячеслав, born 12 January 1988 in Novosibirsk Oblast) is a Russian athlete, specialized in 400 m hurdles.

Yvette Lewis

She competed in the hurdles at a number of 2011 IAAF Diamond League meets that year, including a second place finish at the Memorial Van Damme final.

Yvonne Kanazawa

She is the head coach for sprints, hurdles and relays for the UNLV Rebels at the University of Las Vegas.


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