- Daniel Kinsey
Daniel Chapin Kinsey (January 22, 1902 - June 27, 1970) was an American hurdler and a scholar in physical education. Born in St. Louis, Kinsey attended the University of Illinois, studying education. He developed as a top hurdler, and in 1924 he first won the IC4A title in the high hurdles, followed by the Olympic gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He graduated in 1926, and continued his study in physical education at Oberlin College, …
- Allen Johnson
Allen K. Johnson (born March 1, 1971) is a hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Washington, D.C., an all-round athlete Johnson attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and excelled at high jump, long jump and decathlon as well as hurdles. Johnson was troubled by injury in 2000 and it was much to his credit that he made the final at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers (born November 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a three-time Olympic 100 m champion in athletics for the US Olympic Team. Devers grew up near San Diego and graduated from Sweetwater High School in nearby National City, CA. A young talent in the 100 m and 100 m hurdles, Devers was in training for the 1988 Summer Olympics, started experiencing health problems, suffering from among others migraine and vision loss.
- Forrest Towns
Robert Forrest "Spec" Towns (February 6, 1914 - April 4, 1991) was an American track and field athlete. He was the 1936 Olympic champion in the 110 m hurdles, and broke the World Record in that distance three times. Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Towns went to school in Augusta, Georgia, where he played football in high school. In 1933, he gained a track scholarship for the University of Georgia (UGA) after a track journalist had seen him high jumping in his back yard.
- John McLean
John Frederick McLean (born January 10, 1878 - died June 4, 1955) was an American athlete who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in the 110 metre hurdles and won a silver medal in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with a time of 15.5 seconds. Alvin Kraenzlein took gold with a time of 15.4 seconds.
- Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams (born 8 July 1978 in Tomball) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. Her personal best time is 12.66 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Rethimno. At the World Championships in Edmonton she competed in the long jump as well. Her personal best in that event is 6.64 metres.
- David Oliver
David Oliver (born April 24, 1982) is a hurdling athlete Son of Brenda Chambers, who also competed in track and field in the 400m hurdles event. Height: 6 foot 2 3/4 inches Weight: 205 pounds Currently lives and trains in Orlando, Florida with Coach Brooks Johnson A professional athlete who competes in the 110 meter hurdles event Holds a current personal best of 13.14 set in 2007 in Doha, Qatar.
- Michelle Perry
Michelle Monica Marilyn Perry (born 1 May 1979 in Granada Hills, California) is an American athlete. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she placed 14th overall in the heptathlon competition. Later, at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, she was awarded a gold medal in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.66 seconds. Her current personal record in the event is 12.43 seconds.
- Lashinda Demus
Lashinda Demus (born 10 March 1983 in Inglewood) is an American hurdler. Her personal best time is 53.02 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Athens.
- Edwin Moses
Edwin Corley Moses (born in Dayton, Ohio August 31, 1955) is an American track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races). He set the world record in his event four times. In addition to his running, Moses was also an innovative reformer in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing.
- Lolo Jones
Lolo Jones (born 5 August 1982) is an American track and field athlete, who specializes in the hurdles. After a stellar career at LSU that saw her win 3 NCAA titles and garner 11 All-American honors, Jones had a breakthrough 2006 season, in which she won two meets on the tough European circuit. She won her first national title in 2007, as she won the 60m hurdles at the 2007 USA Indoor Championships. At Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, …
- Terrence Trammell
Terrence R. Trammell (born November 23, 1978 to Julie and Roger Trammell in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a hurdling athlete, who won the silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles at both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. The 1997 Track & Field News Male High School Athlete of the Year attended the University of South Carolina were he trained under Curtis Frye. His main training partner until 2002 was Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson.
- Greg Foster
Gregory ("Greg") Foster (born August 4, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) United States of America was a hurdling athlete. His record is quite outstanding given the calibre of opponents that he regularly faced such as Roger Kingdom, Colin Jackson and Mark McKoy.
- Dominique Arnold
Dominique Arnold (born September 14, 1973) is an American hurdling athlete. He holds the second-fastest all-time performance in the 110 metre high hurdles, with a time of 12.90 s (+1.1 m/s). He also holds the American record in that event.
- Joel Brown
Joel Brown (born 31 January 1980) is a American hurdler. He finished sixth at the 2005 World Championships and seventh at the 2005 World Athletics Final. His personal best time is 13.22 seconds, achieved in July 2005 at the Bislett Games.
- Roger Kingdom
Roger Kingdom (born August 26, 1962) is a former sprint hurdler from the United States. Born in Vienna, Georgia, an athlete of note Roger excelled at the high jump and discus in his formative years as well as being a noteworthy American football player. He attended the University of Pittsburgh originally on a football scholarship but excelled on the track team. He still makes his home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Monroeville, Pennsylvania.
- Bershawn Jackson
Bershawn Jackson (born May 8, 1983 in Dade County, Florida) is an American athlete, competing mainly in 400 m hurdles but also 400 m. Jackson has won many medals at junior level, as well as winning 400 m hurdles at the 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final in Monaco 2004. Competing in his first major international championships, Jackson won a gold medal at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with 47.30, his current personal best.
- Damu Cherry
Damu Cherry (born 29 November 1977) is an American hurdler. She finished seventh at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and second at the 2006 World Athletics Final. Her personal best time is 12.44 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Lausanne. In 2003 she tested positive for a banned substance in an IAAF out-of-competition test. She was suspended from August 2003 to August 2005.
- Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the NCAA title in 1998 and placed second in 1997. In 1998, Taylor also won a silver medal at the US National Championships. He went on to win the title three times from 1999 to 2001. Taylor made his debut at the major tournaments at the 1999 World Championships, …
- Harrison Dillard
William Harrison Dillard (born July 8, 1923) is an American athlete, the only male so far to win Olympic titles in both sprinting and hurdling events. Harrison Dillard, born in Cleveland, Ohio, after serving in the army duty during World War II, returned to college, joined Pi Lambda Phi International Fraternity, and resumed athletics, to which he had been inspired by Jesse Owens, who was also from Cleveland and attended East Technical High School as well.
- Kevin Young
Kevin Curtis Young (born September 16, 1966) is a former American athlete. He was the winner of the 400 metre hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and still holds the world record that event. Born in Watts, California, Kevin Young, as an University of California, Los Angeles "walk-on", won the NCAA titles in 400 m hurdles in 1987 and 1988. Young made his debut at the international scene by finishing second at the 1987 Pan American Games.
- Joanna Hayes
Joanna Dove Hayes (born December 23, 1976) is an American runner, who won the gold medal in the Women's 100m Hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens. Currently coaches Track and Field and Cross-Country Running at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, California. Hayes is the daughter of Los Angeles homeless advocate Ted Hayes
- Aries Merritt
Aries Merritt (born 24 July 1985) is an American hurdler. He won the 2004 World Junior Championships and finished sixth at the 2006 World Athletics Final. His personal best time is 13.12 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Lausanne.
- Renaldo Nehemiah
Renaldo "Skeets" Nehemiah (born March 24, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey), is an American athlete who dominated the 110 m hurdle event from 1978 until 1981. He was the world record holder and the first man to run the high hurdles in under 13 seconds. He was ranked number one in the world for four straight years.
- Lee Calhoun
Lee Quincy Calhoun (February 23 1933 - June 22 1989) was an American athlete, a double winner of 110 m hurdles at the Olympic Games. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Lee Calhoun, representing North Carolina Central University, won the NCAA 120 yd hurdles in 1956 and 1957. He also won the AAU championships in 110 m hurdles in 1956 and 1959 and in 120 yd hurdles in 1957.
- Rodney Milburn
Rodney ("Rod") Milburn, Jr. (March 18, 1950 - November 11, 1997) was an American athlete who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the 110m hurdles.
- Joey Woody
Joey Woody (b. May 22, 1973 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American track and field athlete in the 400 meter hurdles event. Woody attended the University of Northern Iowa, where he was the 1997 NCAA champion in the 400 m hurdles. Woody placed third in the American championships and qualified for the 1997 World Championships in Athens. In the 1999 World Championships in Seville, he improved to sixth place.
- Tiffany Ross-Williams
Tiffany Ross-Williams (born 5 February 1983) is an American hurdler. She finished fourth at the 2002 World Junior Championships and second at the 2006 World Athletics Final. In addition she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2006 World Indoor Championships. Her personal best time is 53.79 seconds, achieved in August 2006 in Monaco.
- Tony Dees
Tony Dees (born August 6 1963 in Pascagoula, Mississippi) is a former American hurdler. Dees won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind Mark McKoy. He then finished third at the 1993 World Indoor Championships, eighth at the 1993 World Championships, …
- Larry Wade
Larry Wade (born 22 November 1974 in Giddings) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best time is 13.01 seconds, achieved in July 1999 in Lausanne. Wade was suspended from July 2004 to July 2006 for USADA Doping Violations.
- Alvin Kraenzlein
Alvin Christian Kraenzlein (December 12, 1876 - January 6, 1928) was an American athlete. He was the first sportsman to win four Olympic titles in a single Olympic Games. As of 2004, he is still the only track and field athlete to have done so in individual events only. Kraenzlein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later the University of Pennsylvania, studying to become a dentist. He won his first athletics title in 1897, …
- Ron Bramlett
Ron Bramlett (born October 22, 1979) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2004 in Lausanne. Bramlett was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ronald and Lurlyn Bramlett. He graduated from Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1997. He was recruited by Middle Tennessee State University as a 110 m hurdler.
- James Carter
James Carter (born May 7, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American athlete competing in 400 m hurdles. His personal best is 47.43, set during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics where he won the silver medal.
- Danielle Carruthers
Danielle Carruthers (born 22 December 1979) is an American hurdler who first gained notoriety on the Indiana University track team. She finished eighth at the 2001 Summer Universiade, fourth at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2006 World Athletics Final. Her personal best time is 12.56 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Eugene, OR.
- Chris Phillips
Christopher Phillips (born 24 July 1972) is a retired American athlete who specialized in the 110 metres hurdles. At the 2003 World Championships he first achieved a lifetime best of 13.26 seconds in the first round. He eventually reached the final, but was disqualified for modafinil doping. A month later, he finished fifth at the World Athletics Final.
- Percy Beard
Percy Morris Beard (born January 26, 1908 in Hardinsburg, Kentucky, died March 27, 1990) was a former American track and field athlete. He was a world-class hurdler with both Auburn University and the New York A.C. He set a world record of 14.2 in the 120-yard high hurdles in 1931 and tied the record in 1934. A seven-time National AAU high hurdles champion, Beard was the silver medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games, finishing second to George Saling.
- Sandra Glover
Sandra Glover (born December 30, 1968 in Palestine, Texas) is an African American athlete competing in the 400 metres hurdles.
- Willie May
Willie May (born 11 November 1936) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He competed for the United States in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the silver medal. May ran 13.61 in that race, the exact same time as Lee Calhoun, another American who won the race. There was no photo finish system in place at the time, and field judges awarded Calhoun the gold.
- Babe Zaharias
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 - September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball and track and field.
- Kim Batten
Kim Batten (born 29 March 1969 in McRae, Georgia, Usa) is a retired female American 400m Hurdler. Batten is also a former World record holder in the Women's 400m Hurdles. In 1991, Batten won her first USA National Championships, The first of six national championships. Batten's finest year came in 1995, when she won Gold in the World Athletics Championships breaking the World Record for the 400m Hurdles in a time of (52.61).