Men's 110 metres hurdles world record progression

The following table shows the world record progression in the Men's 110 metres hurdles.

The first world record in the 110 metre hurdles for men (athletics) was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, in 1912. The IAAF ratified Forrest Smithson's 15.0 mark set at the 1908 London Olympic Games as the inaugural record.

To June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 39 world records in the event.

Records 1912–1976

Time Wind Auto Athlete Nationality Location of race Date
15.0 Forrest Smithson  United States London 25 July 1908
15.0 Harold Barron  United States Antwerp 17 August 1920
15.0 Earl Thomson  Canada Antwerp 17 August 1920
14.8 Earl Thomson  Canada Antwerp 18 August 1920
14.8 Sten Pettersson  Sweden Stockholm 18 September 1927
14.6 George Weightman-Smith  South Africa Amsterdam 31 July 1928
14.4 Eric Wennström  Sweden Stockholm 25 August 1929
14.4 Bengt Sjöstedt  Finland Helsinki 5 September 1931
14.4 Percy Beard  United States Cambridge 23 June 1932
14.4 −0.2 14.53 Jack Keller  United States Palo Alto 17 July 1932
14.4 George Saling  United States Los Angeles 2 August 1932
14.4 John Morriss  United States Budapest 12 August 1933
14.4 John Morriss  United States Turin 8 September 1933
14.3 Percy Beard  United States Stockholm 26 July 1934
14.2 Percy Beard  United States Oslo 6 August 1934
14.2 Alvin Moreau  United States Oslo 2 August 1935
14.1w 2.4 Forrest Towns  United States Chicago 19 June 1936
14.1 1.3 Forrest Towns  United States Berlin 6 August 1936
13.7 0.0 Forrest Towns  United States Oslo 27 August 1936
13.7 0.0 Fred Wolcott  United States Philadelphia 29 June 1941
13.6 0.9 Richard Attlesey  United States College Park 24 June 1950
13.5 Richard Attlesey  United States Helsinki 10 July 1950
13.4 0.0 Jack Davis  United States Bakersfield 22 June 1956
13.2 1.9 13.56 Martin Lauer  West Germany Zurich 7 July 1959
13.2 0.0 Lee Calhoun  United States Bern 21 August 1960
13.2 1.8 13.43 Earl McCullouch  United States Minneapolis 16 July 1967
13.2 −0.9 Willie Davenport  United States Zurich 4 July 1969
13.2 0.0 13.24 Rod Milburn  United States Munich 7 September 1972
13.2 1.1 13.41 Rod Milburn  United States Zurich 6 July 1973
13.2 1.5 Rod Milburn  United States Siena 22 July 1973
13.1 1.2 Guy Drut  France Saint Maur 23 July 1975
13.0 1.8 Guy Drut  France West Berlin 22 August 1975

Records 1977–present

From 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events.

Rod Milburn's 1972 Olympic gold medal victory time of 13.24 was the fastest recorded result to that time.

Time Wind Athlete Nationality Location of race Date
13.24 0.0 Rod Milburn  United States Munich 7 September 1972
13.21 0.6 Alejandro Casañas  Cuba Sofia 21 August 1977
13.16 1.7 Renaldo Nehemiah  United States San Jose 14 April 1979
13.00 0.9 Renaldo Nehemiah  United States Westwood 6 May 1979
12.93 −0.2 Renaldo Nehemiah  United States Zürich 19 August 1981
12.92 −0.1 Roger Kingdom  United States Zürich 16 August 1989
12.91 0.5 Colin Jackson  United Kingdom Stuttgart 20 August 1993
12.91 0.3 Liu Xiang  China Athens 27 August 2004
12.88 1.1 Liu Xiang  China Lausanne 11 July 2006
12.87 0.9 Dayron Robles  Cuba Ostrava 12 June 2008
12.80 0.3 Aries Merritt  United States Brussels 7 September 2012

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