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 Athletics – 100m / 110m hurdles
  
Stade de France
Event
Medal
  
FORMAT
Heats, semi-final and final.
New repechage round introduced*
 
ORIGINS
Thomas Curtis (USA) takes 110m hurdles title at 1896 Olympics. Women’s 80m course introduced in 1932 – upgraded to 100m hurdles for Munich 1972, with Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR) taking title

LEGACY
Only three athletes have successfully retained Olympic sprint hurdles title
      
Lee Calhoun USA
1956, 1960
Roger Kingdom USA
1984, 1988
Shirley Strickland AUS
1952, 1956

2020 GOLD
Hansle Parchment (JAM) and Jasmine Camacho- Quinn (PUR)

Olympic record
Liu Xiang (CHN) Athens 2004 12.91
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) Tokyo 2020 12.26
 
World record
Aries Merritt (USA) Brussels 2012 12.80
Tobi Amusan (NGR) Eugene 2022 12.12

Sources: IOC, IAAF Pictures: Getty *Fastest losers’ second chance to qualify © GRAPHIC NEWS