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It’s the turn of the men’s 120 yards and 110m hurdles as we take an event-by-event look back at the Commonwealth GamesThe first winner over 120 yards was Lord Burghley or to give him his full name, David George Brownlow Cecil Lord Burghley, who won in 14.6, which was only 0.2 outside the world record. The Olympic 400m hurdles champion had won the longer event in the Games a week earlier and went on to win a 4x400m gold too. The title stayed in England in 1934 with Don Finlay winning in a modest 15.2. Conditions were much better in 1938 and South African Tom Lavery, who had been fourth over 100m, sped to a world-class 14.0 winning time. After the war, Australian Peter Gardner won the title with 1934 winner Finlay narrowly missing a medal in fourth. The 1954 title was won by all of 0.7 by another Gardner. This time it was Jamaican Keith Gardner who won with England s Chris Higham a distant second. Gardner was given more of a race in 1958 and won by a metre in 14.20 as Ghulam Raziq won a rare medal for Pakistan in third. He was also second in the 200m. In 1962, Raziq advanced to a clear victory and then won his third medal in a row in 1966, finishing third behind England s David Hemery and Mike Parker. Hemery defended his title in style with a windy 13.60 in 1970 as the event went metric to 110 metres where Pascoe was a faller. The 1974 title went to a new country and one that seems surprising now as Kenyan Fatwell Kimaiyo equalled the Commonwealth record of 13.69 that belonged to runner-up Berwyn Price of Wales. The fi rst four from Christchurch returned in 1978 and they were covered by just five hundredths as Pryce won in 13.70 aided by a huge following wind of 6.15m/sec. Kimaiyo was a close fourth. Price ran a similar time of 13.73 legally in 1982 but only ended up sixth as Canadian Mark McKoy improved the Commonwealth record to 13.37, with Mark Holtom close behind in 13.43. McCoy defended his title successfully in a windy 13.31 in 1986 just ahead of Wales world junior champion Colin Jackson with Don Wright winning a second successive bronze. Jackson was much improved in 1990 and he equalled his European and Commonwealth record of 13.11 in the heats before running a superb 13.08 in the final. England s Tony Jarrett and Dave Nelson followed as, for the first event in history, five Britons filled the first five places. It was a similar situation in 1994 as Jackson won again in 13.08 and Britain had the first four with Jarrett again second and Wales Paul Gray excelling for bronze. In 1998, Jackson controversially withdrew late from the Welsh team to run instead in a meeting in Tokyo and that allowed Jarrett, who had won six silvers and three bronzes in championships (including relays), to finally win gold. South Africa s Shaun Bownes, who was third, won a surprise gold in 2002 by 0.04 in a classy 13.35. Jackson remarkably won a silver 16 years after his first medal and Jarrett finished fourth Jamaica s Maurice Wignall, third in 2002, went two better in 2006 to win easily in 13.26 as Scotland s Chris Baillie and England s Andy Turner excelled for the other medals. Bownes was only sixth. For the third successive Games, the previous bronze medallist won the next Games as Turner led the English clean sweep with Will Sharman and Lawrence Clarke following him home, Turner completing a European and Commonwealth double. Gold medal winners 120 yards1930 Lord Burghley (ENG) 14.6 Gold medal winners 110m hurdles1970 David Hemery (ENG) 13.66w British medallistsGold: Burghley (Eng: 1930), Finlay (Eng: 1934), Hemery (Eng: 1966, 1970), Price (Wal: 1978), Jackson (Wal: 1990, 1994), Jarrett (Eng: 1998), Turner (Eng: 2010) Find other event-by-event histories here and an overall history of the Commonwealth Games here The post Commonwealth Games: Men’s 120 yards and 110m hurdles appeared first on Athletics Weekly. Read the full article at: www.athleticsweekly.com
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