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Liu Xiang Wins Historic 110m Hurdles Gold - Athens 2004 Olympics

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Liu Xiang wins the men's 110-meter hurdles gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, equaling the world record.

📲 Subscribe to @olympics: oly.ch/Subscribe Full highlights from Liu Xiang's historic victory in the Men's 110m Hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Xiang became the first Chinese man to win an Olympic Gold medal in athletics and his time of 12.91 seconds also equaled the 11-year-old world record. _____________________________________________________ 🇨🇳 #Beijing2022 replays: oly.ch/B22Replays 🇯🇵 #Tokyo2020 replays: oly.ch/T20Replays 🗞️ News from the Olympic world: oly.ch/News

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What commenters say. Recommended as an excellent visual example of efficient lead leg snap-down and trail leg technique in hurdling.

@Bananas_n_Pajamasin r/trackandfield • Recommends

On “Hurdle Technique advice needed.”

Your technique honestly isn't that bad. I agree that attacking more in your upper body will help but you can also work on speed over the hurdle, especially the trail leg. Your trail leg is little slow and probably over rotating on the down side of the hurdle (i.e. you keep driving your trail leg forward/up when it should be going down). Keep the trail leg low (but keep the toes up/flexed!) and really snap it down. Because you're elongating your trail leg you lose momentum thus making each hurdle a game of speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, etc. Lots of trail leg drills can fix this. I'm sure you already do this but setup 3-5 hurdles and start off to the left so you just focus on th…

@oOoleveloOoin r/trackandfield • Recommends

On “Any tips for my hurdling? I’m the middle runner in blue”

Check out Liu Xiang or anybody else in that race as an example. Lead leg snaps down to the ground right after it goes over the hurdle. Trail leg whips over the hurdle and doesn’t hitch. They are inches above the hurdle to spend less time in the air. Hurdling is about the efficiency.