WCH Tokyo 25 facts and figures: men's 110m hurdles

Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists

2023: Grant Holloway (USA) – 12.96 (0.0), Hansle Parchment (JAM) – 13.07, Daniel Roberts (USA) – 13.09
2022: Grant Holloway (USA) – 13.03 (+1.2), Trey Cunningham (USA) – 13.08, Asier Martínez (ESP) – 13.17
2019: Grant Holloway (USA) – 13.10 (+0.6), Sergey Shubenkov (ANA/RUS) – 13.15, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA) – 13.18 / Orlando Ortega (ESP) – 13.30*

*Ortega crossed the line in fifth place but had clearly been obstructed while vying for a medal with Martinot-Lagarde, so it was agreed to award both a bronze

Last two sets of Olympic medallists

Fastest winning times in World Athletics Championships history

Colin Jackson (GBR) – 12.91 +0.5 (1993) 
Allen Johnson (USA) – 12.93 0.0 (1997)
Liu Xiang (CHN) – 12.95 +1.7 (2007)

Slowest winning time in World Athletics Championships history

Greg Foster (USA) – 13.42 +1.3 (1983)

Best marks on Japanese soil

12.95 (+1.7) 1 Liu Xiang (CHN) - Osaka (World Championships) 31.08.2007
12.98 (+0.2) 1 Colin Jackson (GBR) - Tokyo 15.09.1995
12.99 (+1.7) 2 Terrence Trammell (USA) - Osaka (World Championships) 31.08.2007

Best marks on Asian soil

12.87 (+0.6) 1 Cordell Tinch (USA) - Shaoxing/Keqiao 03.05.2025
12.93 (+0.1) 1 Dayron Robles (CUB) - Beijing (Olympics) 21.08.2008
12.95 (+1.7) 1 Liu Xiang (CHN) - Osaka (World Championships) 31.08.2007

Biggest winning margins

0.13s – 2013: Sergey Shubenkov (RUS) – 13.00, Ryan Wilson (USA) – 13.13
0.12s – 1997: Allen Johnson (USA) – 12.93, Colin Jackson (GBR) – 13.05
0.11s – 2011: Jason Richardson (USA) – 13.16, Liu Xiang (CHN) – 13.27
0.11s – 2023: Grant Holloway (USA) – 12.96, Hansle Parchment (JAM) – 13.07

​​Smallest winning margins

0.00s – 1991: Greg Foster (USA) – 13.06, Jack Pierce (USA) – 13.06
0.01s – 2005: Ladji Doucoure (FRA) – 13.07, Liu Xiang (CHN) – 13.08
0.01s – 2009: Ryan Brathwaite (BAR) – 13.14, Terrence Trammell (USA) – 13.15

Best mark by round

Heat — 13.05 (−0.6) David Oliver (USA), 2013
Quarterfinal — 13.13 (−0.4) Duane Ross (USA), 1999
Semifinal — 13.01 (−0.6) Grant Holloway (USA), 2022
Final — 12.91 (+0.5) Colin Jackson (GBR), 1993

Multiple winners

1983/87/91 - Greg Foster (USA)
1993/99 - Colin Jackson (GBR)
1995/97/01/03 - Allen Johnson (USA)
2019/22/23 - Grant Holloway (USA)

Winners by country

12 - United States
2 - Great Britain
1 - France
1 - China
1 - Barbados
1 - Russia
1 - Jamaica

Five historic facts

• Five of the 19 world 110m hurdles finals have been won with sub-13 second winning times
• Grant Holloway’s winning time of 12.96 (0.0) in Budapest in 2023 was the fourth fastest winning time in World Championships history
• Colin Jackson’s (GBR) championship record of 12.91 from Stuttgart in 1993, a world record at the time, is the longest-standing men’s track record at the World Championships
• Greg Foster (USA) became the first-ever three-time world champion in any event when he won gold in Tokyo 1991
• The United States have won five of the last six 110m hurdles titles. The United States also took a 1-2 in Tokyo in 1991 and 2-3 in Osaka in 2007

Potential storylines

• Can Grant Holloway (USA) win his fifth global title from the last six championships? The only gold medal he hasn’t won since 2019 was the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 when he had to settle for silver behind Hansle Parchment 
• If Holloway wins a fourth title, he will match Allen Johnson who won four titles between 1995 and 2003 
• Can Rachid Muratake (JPN) win Japan’s first ever medal in the 110m hurdles in World Championships history? 
• Can the United States win a clean sweep of the medals in the 110m hurdles for the first time in World Championships history?
• Three athletes on the entry-list have sub-13 second season’s bests: Cordell Tinch (12.87), Muratake (12.92), Just Kwaou-Mathey (12.99)