This year’s 110 meter hurdles race features four participants with personal bests under 13 seconds.
The starting list for the Boris Hanžeković Memorial 110 meter hurdles race is always filled with Olympic and world championships medallists, and this year will be no different.
Moreover, at the 74th Boris Hanžeković Memorial, to be held at Mladost Stadium on September 8, we will see two Olympic champions and as many as four hurdlers who have run faster than 13 seconds in their careers!
The stellar starting list is led by Hansle Parchment, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and the current world silver medallist, who is also last year’s winner of the Memorial race, who has a personal best of 12.93 seconds. An even better personal best is held by Omar McLeod, the Rio 2016 Olympic champion and 2017 world champion, who is also the Jamaican record holder with 12.90 seconds respectively.
The third Jamaican in the race will be Rasheed Broadbell, whose personal best is 12.94 seconds. He won a bronze medal at the recent Olympic Games in Paris and that just five days ago, at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, he defeated the current Olympic and world champion Grant Holloway, handing him his only defeat of the year.
Freddie Crittenden, a finalist at the last World Championships and Olympic Games, has also run under 13 seconds; he clocked 12.93 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials in June. Rachid Muratake, who finished fifth in the Olympic final in Paris and has a personal best of an impressive 13.04 seconds, having run 13.07 seconds this year, should also certainly be mentioned.
It is worth noting that the 110 meter hurdles meeting record of 12.98 seconds has been held for 25 years by Mark Crear.
