Hurdling

Racers over hurdles at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.

Hurdling is a type of track and field race.

There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. Men and women run 400 meters in the standard long hurdle race. Each of these races is run over ten hurdles and they are all Olympic events.

Other distances are sometimes run, particularly indoors. The sprint hurdle race indoors is usually 60 meters for both men and women, although races 55 meters or 50 meters long are sometimes run.

Hurdling Media

• Leichtathletik Gala Linz 2018 men´s 110m hurdles Okafor-6401.jpg

  Leon Okafor of Austria runs a hurdle at a 2018 event in Linz.

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  The final of the men's 110m hurdles at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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  A sequence of hurdling images.

• A sequence showing hurdling, from 1900. Today a distance to the first hurdle of more than 10m is advised.

• 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Memorial Van Damme. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Sally Pearson, Lolo Jones and Perdita Felicien

• 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 m Hurdles – Semifinal 1

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  Kerron Clement running the 400m hurdles in Berlin, 2009 (at center)

Other websites

• Trackinfo explanation of hurdles Archived 2009-03-21 at the Wayback Machine