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120 yard hurdles (39") 12.9 Renaldo Nehemiah: Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School: Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Jamaica, New York: May 30, 1977 110 m hurdles (39 in) 13.08 Wayne Davis: Southeast Raleigh High School: Raleigh, North Carolina. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Pan American Junior Athletics Championships: July 31, 2009 13.30 Chris Nelloms ...
Bob Osgood. Robert D. Osgood (April 21, 1915 – July 24, 1990) was an American track and field athlete who set a world record in the 120-yard high hurdles in May 1937 with a time of 14 seconds flat. He also won the Big Ten Conference championship in the event in both 1936 and 1937. [1] He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic ...
The sprint hurdles at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships have been contested over a variety of distances. The men's 110 meter hurdles or its imperial equivalent (the 120 yard hurdles) has been present on the schedule since the first edition in 1921. A men's 220 yard hurdles was also held from 1921 to 1959.
In 1973 Milburn continued to demonstrate he was the world's pre-eminent high-hurdler by breaking the world record for the 110 m hurdles with a 13.1 s, knocking 0.1 s off a record that had lasted for 14 years, and equalling his own world record for 120 y hurdles of 13.0 s. The record-breaking times in the 110 m hurdles happened on July 6 in ...
He helped power the University of Iowa track and field team during the 1932 NCAA championships, securing a title in the 120-yard hurdles with an unofficial world record time of 14.1 seconds.
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.
McCullouch was the world record holder for the 110 meter men's high hurdle sprint from July 1967 to July 1969. When attending the University of Southern California, McCullouch was a member of the USC Trojan Football teams (wide receiver) and the USC Track & Field teams (120 yard high hurdles and 4×110 sprint relay) in 1967 and 1968. The USC ...
For the first hurdles races in England around 1830, wooden barriers were placed along a stretch of 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 42 inches (106.7 cm) high hurdles; the height and spacing of the hurdles have been related to ...