| Final 18:20 | time | electr | L | | 1. Harrison Dillard |  United States | 13.7s | 13.91s | 4 | | 2. Jack Davis | United States | 13.7s | 14.00s | 1 | | 3. Arthur Barnard | United States | 14.1s | 14.40s | 4 | | 4. Yevgeniy Bulanchik |  Soviet Union | 14.5s | 14.73s | 2 | | 5. Kenneth Doubleday |  Australia | 14.7s | 14.82s | 3 | | 6. Raymond Weinberg | Australia | 14.8s | 15.15s | 6 |
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| | Venue: Helsingin Olympiastadion 70,000. | | 30 competitors from 20 nations. |
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Semi-Finals - Thursday 24.07 15:00 | | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final. |
| Semi 1 | time | | 1. Harrison Dillard | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Arthur Barnard | United States | 14.2s | | 3. Kenneth Doubleday | Australia | 14.5s | | 4. Sergey Popov | Soviet Union | 14.7s | | 5. Edmond Roudniska |  France | 14.9s | | 6. Peter Hildreth |  Great Britain | 14.9s |
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| Semi 2 | time | | 1. Jack Davis | United States | 14.4s | | 2. Yevgeniy Bulantshik | Soviet Union | 14.5s | | 3. Raymond Weinberg | Australia | 14.6s | | 4. Stanko Lorger |  Yugoslavia | 14.9s | | 5. Vaino Suvivuo |  Finland | 14.9s | | 6. Frederik Parker | Great Britain | 15.0s |
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Dillard equalled Porter’s Olympic record of 13.9 in the first round, an
auto-timed 14.01, with Davis clocking 14.0 (14.23) in his heat, almost
four tenths quicker than the next best in the field. Dillard then won his
semi-final in 14.0 (14.14) 3m ahead of Barnard - 14.2 (14.44). Davis
won the other semi, easing up in 14.4 (14.62) after an atrocious start.
Davis had a false start in the final, and while he ran well at the sec-
ond attempt, he was a yard behind Dillard, a superb starter, by the first
hurdle. Davis closed on Dillard, almost catching him, but Dillard was
technically faultless. Davis’s rush was affected by hitting the seventh
and ninth hurdles. Dillard won by three-quarters of a metre, looking
entirely unruffled by the pressure he had been under, with Barnard 4m
behind, well clear of Bulanchik for third.
| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Harrison Dillard | United States | 13.9s | | 2. Sergey Popov | Soviet Union | 14.8s | | 3. Olivier Bernard |  Switzerland | 15.1s | | 4. Erdal Barkay |  Turkey | 15.2s | | 5. Edmundo Ohaco |  Chile | 15.4s | | 6. Olli Alho | Finland | 15.4s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Yevgeniy Bulantshik | Soviet Union | 14.4s | | 2. Edmond Roudniska | France | 14.9s | | 3. Estanislao Kocourek |  Argentina | 15.0s | | 4. Risto Syrj¤nen | Finland | 15.4s | | 5. Juan Lebr³n Gonzalez |  Puerto Rico | 15.4s | | 6. Fouad Yazgi |  Egypt | 16.1s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Jack Davis | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Stanko Lorger | Yugoslavia | 14.8s | | 3. Samul Anderson Schweyer |  Cuba | 15.1s | | 4. Wolfgang Trossbach |  Germany | 15.1s | | 5. Teofilo Davis Bell |  Venezuela | 15.7s |
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| Heat 4 | time | | 1. Kenneth Doubleday | Australia | 14.5s | | 2. Frederick Parker | Great Britain | 14.8s | | 3. Gordon Crosby |  Canada | 14.8s | | 4. Teofilo Colón Molinaris | Puerto Rico | 15.2s |
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| Heat 5 | time | | 1. Raymond Weinberg | Australia | 14.4s | | 2. Vaino Suvivuo | Finland | 14.9s | | 3. Jorn Gevert | Chile | 15.2s |
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| Heat 6 | time | | 1. Arthur Barnard | United States | 14.4s | | 2. Peter Hildreth | Great Britain | 14.7s | | 3. Michitaka Kinami |  Japan | 15.0s | | 4. Ingi Thorsteinsson |  Iceland | 15.6s | | 5. Jacques Dohen | France | 15.7s | | 6. Jean Fonck |  Luxembourg | 16.1s |
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