IAAF Day 4 – McLeod Advances to Semifinal in 110mH

DOHA, Qatar - Reigning Olympic and World Champion Omar McLeod advanced to the semifinal of the 110-meter hurdles Monday afternoon at the IAAF World Championships at Khalifa Stadium.

McLeod, a three-time NCAA Champion hurdler for Arkansas, eased through the round running 13.17Q to win his heat and post the second-fastest time on the day behind Spain's Orlando Ortega at 13.15.

For Team Jamacia, it was a successful prelim as all four Jamaicans advanced to the semifinal of the 110-meter hurdles with McLeod leading the way.

The Jamaican quarter of hurdlers will return for the semifinal and final of the event on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 12:05 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., respectively.

McLeod's International Championship Results

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Wind	Notes
Representing  Jamaica
2011	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Montego Bay, Jamaica	1st	400 m hurdles	52.42	n/a	PB
			3rd	110 m hurdles	14.10	−0.8	PB
			2nd	4×400 m relay	3:09.41	n/a	PB
	World Youth Championships	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France	4th	110 m hurdles	13.61	+0.1	PB
			8th	400 m hurdles	52.82	n/a
			DNS	Medley relay	—	n/a
2012	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Hamilton, Bermuda	1st	400 m hurdles	52.35	n/a
			3rd	4×400 m relay	3:12.48	n/a	SB
	CACAC Junior Championships (U20)	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	4×400 m relay	3:08.94	n/a	PB
	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st (semi 1)	4×400 m relay	3:08.83	n/a	Q, PB
2013	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Nassau, The Bahamas	1st	400 m hurdles	51.46	n/a
			2nd	110 m hurdles	13.57	NWI
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	6th	110 m hurdles	13.18	+0.1
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, Oregon, U.S.	1st	60 m hurdles	7.41	n/a	WL, NR
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	110 m hurdles	13.05	+0.2
2017	World Championships	London, England	1st	110 m hurdles	13.04	0.0
			DNF	4×100 m relay	—	n/a	Teammate injury

COMPLETE PRELIM RESULTS

POS	RANK	HEAT	BIB	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	RESULTS	MS*	WIND
1	1	5	665	Orlando ORTEGA	ESP	13.15 Q		-0.5
2	1	1	1167	Omar MCLEOD	JAM	13.17 Q		+0.2
3	1	4	1894	Grant HOLLOWAY	USA	13.22 Q		+0.4
4	1	2	119	Sergey SHUBENKOV	ANA	13.27 Q		+0.5
5	2	4	1238	Shunya TAKAYAMA	JPN	13.32 Q		+0.4
6	2	1	579	Milan TRAJKOVIC	CYP	13.37 Q SB		+0.2
7	2	2	474	Wenjun XIE	CHN	13.38 Q		+0.5
8	3	2	1679	Jason JOSEPH	SUI	13.39 Q NR		+0.5
9	3	1	1621	Antonio ALKANA	RSA	13.41 Q		+0.2
10	3	4	987	Konstantinos DOUVALIDIS	GRE	13.43 Q SB	.421	+0.4
11	4	4	1337	Yaqoub Mohamed AL YOUHA	KUW	13.43 Q	.429	+0.4
12	1	3	784	Pascal MARTINOT-LAGARDE	FRA	13.45 Q		-0.4
13	4	1	1862	Devon ALLEN	USA	13.46 Q		+0.2
14	2	5	1169	Ronald LEVY	JAM	13.48 Q		-0.5
15	5	1	1091	Hassane FOFANA	ITA	13.49 q		+0.2
16	5	4	1152	Orlando BENNETT	JAM	13.50 q		+0.4
17	4	2	230	Shane BRATHWAITE	BAR	13.51 Q		+0.5
18	2	3	848	Andrew POZZI	GBR	13.53 Q	.522	-0.4
19	6	4	756	Dimitri BASCOU	FRA	13.53 q	.524	+0.4
20	3	5	1745	Kuei-Ru CHEN	TPE	13.57 Q		-0.5
21	6	1	167	Nicholas HOUGH	AUS	13.60 q	.592	+0.2
22	5	2	1022	Valdó SZŰCS	HUN	13.60	.597	+0.5
23	7	1	2057	Vitali PAROKHONKA	BLR	13.65		+0.2
24	4	5	758	Wilhem BELOCIAN	FRA	13.67 Q	.663	-0.5
25	3	3	1172	Andrew RILEY	JAM	13.67 Q	.666	-0.4
26	5	5	480	Jianhang ZENG	CHN	13.68		-0.5
27	6	5	1108	Lorenzo PERINI	ITA	13.70		-0.5
28	6	2	2066	Elmo LAKKA	FIN	13.73		+0.5
29	7	2	1230	Taio KANAI	JPN	13.74		+0.5
30	7	5	1655	Louis François MENDY	SEN	13.75		-0.5
31	4	3	532	Yohan CHAVERRA	COL	13.76 Q		-0.4
32	8	2	333	Eduardo RODRIGUES	BRA	13.92		+0.5
33	5	3	1623	Ruan DE VRIES	RSA	14.07		-0.4
34	8	5	564	Roger IRIBARNE	CUB	14.37		-0.5
35	7	4	1339	Xaysa ANOUSONE	LAO	14.54		+0.4
36	8	4	545	Fadane HAMADI	COM	14.79		+0.4
		3	1015	Jeffrey JULMIS	HAI	DQ
		3	1924	Daniel ROBERTS	USA	DQ
		1	326	Gabriel CONSTANTINO	BRA	DQ
		4	1526	Damian CZYKIER	POL	DNS
		3	1214	Shunsuke IZUMIYA	JPN	DNS

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