Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
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The Men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was held on July 26, 1976, and on July 28, 1976.[1] Twenty-four athletes from 17 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Men's 110 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Date | 26 July 1976 (heats) 28 July 1976 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 24 from 17 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 13.30 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The event was won by Guy Drut of France, the sixth man to win two medals in the event (silver in 1972). It was France's first championship in the men's high hurdles, and only the third time the event was won by a hurdler not from the United States. Alejandro Casañas's silver gave Cuba its first medal in the event. Willie Davenport took bronze, becoming the seventh man to win a second medal and the first to do so in non-consecutive Games (he had won gold in 1968). It was the first time in Olympic history that the United States failed to win either gold or silver in the event; the Americans had won the last 9 straight editions of the event and 15 of 17 overall, with silver (and bronze) medals in the other two times (1920 and 1928).