2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles

The favored athletes, including reigning Olympic Champion Hansle Parchment, world leader and third fastest of all time Devon Allen, and defending world champion Grant Holloway, all qualified for the final. However, Parchment injured his right leg during warmups, requiring treatment on the infield. He was unable to walk to the starting line when athletes were called.

The first start was called back because of a false start; Allen had a reaction time of .099 seconds, one one thousandth of a second faster than the allowable tenth of a second. After protesting, the former Oregon athlete was disqualified to boos from the hometown crowd.^{[citation needed]}

With a legal start, defending champion Grant Holloway was off to a quick start, first over the first hurdle and a full metre ahead of the field except for U.S. Collegiate champion Trey Cunningham. By the fifth hurdle, Holloway had over a metre on Cunningham, who hit that hurdle, while Damian Czykier began to emerge as the next chaser just ahead of Asier Martínez. Shane Brathwaite hit the sixth hurdle and abandoned his attempt to clear the next. Over the last two hurdles, Czykier lost a little ground while Martínez pulled ahead. Still a metre back over the final hurdle, Cunningham closed and leaned to make the finish close.^{[citation needed]}

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

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Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Aries Merritt (USA)	12.80	Brussels, Belgium	7 September 2012
Championship record	Colin Jackson (GBR)	12.91	Stuttgart, Germany	20 August 1993
World Leading	Devon Allen (USA)	12.84	New York City, United States	12 June 2022
African Record	Antonio Alkana (RSA)	13.11	Prague, Czech Republic	5 June 2017
Asian Record	Liu Xiang (CHN)	12.88	Lausanne, Switzerland	11 July 2006
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Aries Merritt (USA)	12.80	Brussels, Belgium	7 September 2012
South American Record	Rafael Pereira (BRA)	13.17	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	23 June 2022
European Record	Colin Jackson (GBR)	12.91	Stuttgart, Germany	20 August 1993
Oceanian record	Kyle Vander-Kuyp (AUS)	13.29	Gothenburg, Sweden	11 August 1995

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The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 13.32.^[3]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows: