Looking ahead to day three of the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Monday, one of the six gold medals that will be handed out will include the men’s 110m hurdles, and it promises to be a truly cracking final.
Olympic gold medallist Aries Merritt, defending champion Jason Richardson and David Oliver, who has been the season’s leading light in this discipline, all won their respective heats in good style on Sunday morning.
Richardson may struggle to retain his crown this year – bookies certainly believe so, he’s a top-priced 25/1 at the time of writing – but unless Frenchman Thomas Martinot-Lagarde can pull something special out of the bag, the 27-year-old should qualify along with fellow American Merritt from the first semi-final on Monday.