220 Yard Low Hurdles Height & Spacing:30” (height) low hurdles, 20 yards from the starting line to the first hurdle, each hurdle is
spaced 20 yards apart, and 20 yards from the last hurdle to the finish line. A total of ten
hurdles (per lane) are used for the event. Jessie Owens held the World Record in this event. The 200 meter low hurdles were
included in the 1900 and 1904 Olympics in Paris and St. Louis.
The following are Masters Track & Field results for the 220 yard and 200 meter Low Hurdles:
One of the best all-time by a Masters
athlete over 30 years old
was Bill Knocke’s 27.3 from 1987; Bill was M40-49 at
the time.
Second best was Walt Butler 27.5 (also M40-49).
June 12, 2004: Masters - 220 Yard
Low Hurdles:
In
hurdle event during the Southern Calif. Association Open & Masters Track
& Field
Championships. The race
was billed as the event that Jesse Owens made famous.
The race was held at
1st Perry McBride (29) 26.28; 2nd Ari Morrison (25) 27.19;
3rd Jeffery Davison (46) 31.16; 4th Andrew Hecker
(49) 38.23
This was the first time that Perry, Ari, and Jeff had
attempted this low hurdle event.
Andy had just completed the 400 meter long hurdles moments before getting in
the blocks for the 220 yard low hurdles
. . . in retrospect, Andy would
have given
Jeff a great battle had the exhibition event been put on before the long hurdle
race.
National Masters News
reports the following earlier low hurdle (indoor, 220 yard or 200 meter) races:
April 4-5, 1998 Hillside,
M35: Tim Coombs 29.82; M55:
George LaBelle 41.64; M65: Bill Simmons 38.27
M70: Chuck Sochor
36.06; W30: JoAnna Childress 31.50
(May ?) 1995 New Zealand Championships:
M45: L. Malcolmson
28.50; M55: I. Montgomerie 36.30; M60: A. Anderson
39.90
Feb. 21, 1987 Orange Spring Games, Orange, CA:
M30-39: Andrew Hecker 30.3; Mark Thompson 34.5;
M40-49: Bill Knocke
27.3; Walt Butler 27.5; Gary Bane 33.4:
M50-59: Dave Douglass 34.5;
M60-69: Bob Hunt 36.9; M70-79: C. T. Pao 47.6
June 14, 1986 All American TC Invitational, Northridge, CA 200 Meter Int. Hurdles
M30-34: Andrew Hecker 29.9; Williams 30.2; M40: Morris 32.4;
M50: Wright 36.2; M55: M. Robinson 32.9;
M75:Thompson 55.6
July 21, 1985 Masters Key Track Championships, Baltimore, MD
M30-39: Kimm
Williams 28.5; Mike Carroll 28.5; Billy Gale 28.7;
M50+: George Taylor 39.9
Masters – Ladies: (Results found
on-line Aug. 10, 2009)
Northwest All Comers meet has held several retro 220 yard
low hurdles races.
2001: W44: Stella Orechia
32.8h in
http://www.clubnorthwest.org/index.php/summer-all-comers
In 2009 Masters Track & Field has added the 200 meter
hurdles to the ladies events.