The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.

Summary The returning champion was David Oliver, while world leader in 2015 Orlando Ortega is ineligible after switching his nationality to Spain (after defecting to the USA at the 2013 Championships). World record holder Aries Merritt was here, just days before a scheduled kidney transplant.Start list

The heats will be remembered for the false start disqualification of Ronnie Ash. Similar to Jon Drummond's incident in 2003, Ash refused to accept the disqualification and took several minutes before being convinced to leave the track.

In the finals, Oliver was the first to the first hurdle, and he hit it badly. Dimitri Bascou was the next to show a microscopic lead which only lasted until he clobbered the third hurdle, giving world #2 Omar McLeod three steps in the lead until he flipped the fourth hurdle. Merritt and Sergey Shubenkov were the next leaders. Merritt seemed to be running too close to the hurdles and had to slow to compensate giving Shubenkov a slight edge. Hansle Parchment built up speed and even though he hit the tenth hurdle, had more speed to the finish. His late rush passed Merritt to earn silver and make for a challenge to Shubenkov for the gold. Shubenkov's 12.98 was a new Russian National Record.

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record12.80 Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012Championship record12.91 Stuttgart, Germany20 August 1993World Leading12.94 Saint-Denis, France4 July 2015African Record13.24 Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012Asian Record12.88 Lausanne, Switzerland11 July 2006North, Central American and Caribbean record12.80Brussels, Belgium7 September 2012South American Record13.27Guadalajara, Mexico28 October 2011European Record12.91 Stuttgart, Germany20 August 1993Oceanian record13.29 Gothenburg, Sweden11 August 1995

Qualification standards Entry standards 13.47

Schedule Date Time Round26 August 2015 11:20 Heats27 August 2015 19:05 Semifinals28 August 2015 21:20 Final

Results KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the Semifinals. Heats were held on 26 August.Heats results

Wind:Heat 1: -1.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.2 m/s, Heat 3: -1.0 m/s, Heat 4: -0.7 m/s, Heat 5: -1.2 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 7 David Oliver 13.15 2 5 7 Aries Merritt 13.25 3 1 9 Shane Brathwaite 13.28 4 5 4 Dimitri Bascou 13.29 5 5 8 Sergey Shubenkov 13.31 6 4 4 Hansle Parchment 13.33 7 4 8 Matthias Bühler 13.35 , 7 2 5 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde 13.35 9 4 6 Aleec Harris 13.41 9 4 2 Greggmar Swift 13.41 11 4 3 Jhoanis Portilla 13.43 11 3 3 Garfield Darien 13.43 11 2 4 Andrew Riley 13.43 11 1 4 Omar McLeod 13.43 15 1 7 Xie Wenjun 13.44 15 2 8 Gregor Traber 13.44 17 3 6 Balázs Baji 13.45 18 5 2 Sekou Kaba 13.46 19 1 5 Yidiel Contreras 13.48 20 2 2 Artur Noga 13.49 21 3 4 Johnathan Cabral 13.55 22 3 9 João Vítor de Oliveira 13.57 23 3 8 Konstadinos Douvalidis 13.58 24 5 5 Lawrence Clarke 13.61 25 5 3 Antonio Alkana 13.63 26 3 2 Yordan O'Farrill 13.64 27 5 9 Eddie Lovett 13.65 28 4 7 Nicholas Hough 13.69 29 4 9 Ben Reynolds 13.72 30 2 9 Ronald Forbes 13.78 31 2 7 Jonathan Mendes 13.86 32 4 5 Milan Ristić 13.89 33 3 1 Bano Traoré 13.91 34 1 1 Éder Antônio Souza 13.96 35 1 2 Jamras Rittidet 14.00 36 1 6 Welington Zaza 14.56 37 3 5 Xaysa Anousone 14.74 1 3 Mikel Thomas R168.7(b) 1 8 Alexander John R162.7 2 3 Ronnie Ash R162.7 2 6 Petr Svoboda R162.7 5 6 Zhang Honglin

Semifinals Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.Semifinals results

Wind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.2 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Aries Merritt 13.08 , 2 1 6 Sergey Shubenkov 13.09 3 2 6 Omar McLeod 13.14 4 1 5 Hansle Parchment 13.16 4 3 6 Dimitri Bascou 13.16 , 6 3 4 David Oliver 13.17 6 2 4 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde 13.17 8 1 4 Garfield Darien 13.25 9 1 8 Aleec Harris 13.29 10 1 7 Shane Brathwaite 13.31 11 3 5 Matthias Bühler 13.34 12 2 2 Johnathan Cabral 13.37 12 2 9 Gregor Traber 13.37 12 3 2 Artur Noga 13.37 15 2 7 Xie Wenjun 13.39 16 3 7 Andrew Riley 13.43 17 2 8 Greggmar Swift 13.44 18 1 2 João Vítor de Oliveira 13.45 19 3 9 Balázs Baji 13.51 20 3 3 Lawrence Clarke 13.53 21 3 8 Yidiel Contreras 13.57 22 1 9 Sekou Kaba 13.58 23 1 1 Petr Svoboda 13.67 24 2 3 Konstadinos Douvalidis 13.79 1 3 Jhoanis Portilla

Final The final was held at 21:20.Final results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 Sergey Shubenkov 12.98 8 Hansle Parchment 13.03 4 Aries Merritt 13.04 4 2 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde 13.17 5 5 Dimitri Bascou 13.17 6 6 Omar McLeod 13.18 7 9 David Oliver 13.33 8 3 Garfield Darien 13.34

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