2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles


The men's 60 metres hurdles competition at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 14 March.
The competition was set to be one of the highlights of the competition from the very beginning: it was the first major competition for 2004 Olympic champion Liu Xiang's after a long period out through injury and it was the first time that he, Dayron Robles and Terrence Trammell – the best of their generation – had faced each other since the 2007 World Championships.
Only ten athletes were eliminated in the first round in which American hurdlers David Oliver and Trammell ran the fastest times. The majority of athletes gave conservative performances and Ladji Doucouré of France was the only unexpected elimination, as he suffered an injury at the beginning of heat four. The no false-start rule claimed two victims in the first semi-final in which Liu and Trammell progressed. Former European Indoor champion Gregory Sedoc was eliminated in the second of the three semis while Petr Svoboda won the last semi-final; all the favourites progressed to the [|final].
The final turned into a head-to-head between Trammell and Robles, with the Cuban pulling alongside the American in the latter part of the race and dipping at the line for the victory. In spite of a slow reaction time, Robles ran a Championships record of 7.34 seconds to win his first indoor title. A perennial silver medallist outdoors, Trammell equalled the American record of 7.36 seconds for another silver, although his time would have been enough for the gold at any of the 12 championships preceding this edition. Oliver ran a personal best of 7.44 seconds to take the bronze while Liu finished in seventh, clearly lacking complete race fitness.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat and the next 4 fastest advance to the [|semifinals].
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11David Oliver7.60Q
22Terrence Trammell7.60Q
31Dániel Kiss7.65Q
44Felipe Vivancos7.67Q, SB
51Alexander John7.70Q
64Maurice Wignall7.71Q, SB
3Evgeniy Borisov7.74 Q, Doping
75Dayron Robles7.74Q
82Shamar Sands7.75Q
94Petr Svoboda7.75Q
103Helge Schwarzer7.76Q
111Adrien Deghelt7.77Q
125Héctor Cotto7.78Q, SB
135Dominik Bochenek7.78Q
143Liu Xiang7.79Q, SB
155Gregory Sedoc7.79Q
162Damien Broothaerts7.80Q
172Jurica Grabušić7.80Q
183Philip Nossmy7.80Q
195Maksim Lynsha7.80q
204Shi Dongpeng7.83Q, SB
214Dayron Capetillo7.85q
221Ronald Forbes7.86q
233Garfield Darien7.86q
243Martin Mazáč7.97
255Aleksey Dremin8.18
262Ahmad Hazer8.36NR
271Iong Kim Fai8.67
281Inoke Finau9.06PB
4Ladji Doucouré
2Paulo Villar
5Dhirendra Chaudhary
2Dwight Thomas
4Mohsin Ali

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat and the next 2 fastest advance to the final.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Terrence Trammell7.51Q
22Dayron Robles7.56Q
2Evgeniy Borisov7.57 Q, Doping
33Petr Svoboda7.60Q
43David Oliver7.61Q
53Maurice Wignall7.62q, SB
63Dániel Kiss7.64q
72Gregory Sedoc7.67
81Liu Xiang7.68Q, SB
93Philip Nossmy7.69
102Maksim Lynsha7.71
112Helge Schwarzer7.74
121Dayron Capetillo7.76
131Shamar Sands7.81
143Jurica Grabušić7.81
152Shi Dongpeng7.82SB
161Adrien Deghelt7.83
172Damien Broothaerts7.86
182Héctor Cotto7.87
191Ronald Forbes7.91
203Dominik Bochenek7.91
1Felipe Vivancos
1Alexander John
3Garfield Darien

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Dayron Robles7.34CR, WL
Terrence Trammell7.36=NR
David Oliver7.44PB
Evgeniy Borisov7.51 SB, Doping
4Petr Svoboda7.58
5Maurice Wignall7.60SB
6Liu Xiang7.65SB
7Dániel Kiss7.81