The men's 110 metres hurdles

110 metres hurdles

The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

hurdling event at the 1932 Olympic Games

1932 Summer Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...

took place on August 2 and August 3 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, at Exposition Park, that is home to the Pacific-12 Conference's University of Southern California Trojans football team...

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Heats

Four heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the semifinals round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Percy Beard Percy Beard Percy Morris Beard was an American college and international track and field athlete who specialized in the high hurdles event, and won an Olympic silver medal. Beard later became a nationally prominent college track and field coach at the University of Florida.- Athletic career :Percy Beard was...		14.7
2	Roly Harper Roly Harper Rowland Richard George "Roly" Harper was an English professional footballer who made 34 appearances in the First Division of the Football League playing for Birmingham, Aston Villa and Notts County....		14.9
3	Erwin Wegner		15.1
4	Sylvio Padilha		15.4

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Don Finlay		14.8
2	George Saling George Saling George J. Saling was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Saling was born in Memphis, Missouri, but the family moved to Corydon, Iowa when George was three months old. He graduated from Corydon High School in 1927 and was the captain of the basketball team...		15.0
3	Tatsuzo Fujita		15.1

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willi Welscher		14.8
2	Bengt Sjöstedt		14.9
3	Bunoo Sutton		15.1
4	Art Ravensdale		15.2
5	Antônio Giusfredi		15.3
6	Federico Gamboa		15.4

Heat Four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Keller		14.9
2	Khristos Mantikas		15.1
3	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		15.1
4	Roberto Sánchez		15.7

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the final round.
Heat One

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Keller		14.5	OR
2	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		14.6
3	Don Finlay		14.6
4	Bunoo Sutton
5	Bengt Sjöstedt
6	Erwin Wegner

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	George Saling George Saling George J. Saling was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Saling was born in Memphis, Missouri, but the family moved to Corydon, Iowa when George was three months old. He graduated from Corydon High School in 1927 and was the captain of the basketball team...		14.4	=WR
2	Percy Beard Percy Beard Percy Morris Beard was an American college and international track and field athlete who specialized in the high hurdles event, and won an Olympic silver medal. Beard later became a nationally prominent college track and field coach at the University of Florida.- Athletic career :Percy Beard was...		14.6
3	Willi Welscher		14.8
4	Tatsuzo Fujita		14.8
5	Roly Harper Roly Harper Rowland Richard George "Roly" Harper was an English professional footballer who made 34 appearances in the First Division of the Football League playing for Birmingham, Aston Villa and Notts County....		14.9
-	Khristos Mantikas			DQ

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	George Saling George Saling George J. Saling was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Saling was born in Memphis, Missouri, but the family moved to Corydon, Iowa when George was three months old. He graduated from Corydon High School in 1927 and was the captain of the basketball team...		14.57
	Percy Beard Percy Beard Percy Morris Beard was an American college and international track and field athlete who specialized in the high hurdles event, and won an Olympic silver medal. Beard later became a nationally prominent college track and field coach at the University of Florida.- Athletic career :Percy Beard was...		14.69
	Don Finlay		14.74
4	Jack Keller		14.81
5	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		14.83
-	Willi Welscher			DQ

Key: =WR = tied world record; OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified