| Final Wind -1.9m/s | time | electr | L | | 1. Lee Calhoun |  United States | 13.5s | 13.70s | 2 | | 2. Jack Davis | United States | 13.5s | 13.73s | 5 | | 3. Joel Shankle | United States | 14.1s | 14.25s | 1 | | 4. Martin Lauer |  Germany | 14.5s | 14.67s | 6 | | 5. Stanko Lorger |  Yugoslavia | 14.5s | 14.68s | 3 | | 6. Boris Stolyarov |  Soviet Union | 14.6s | 14.71s | 4 |
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In 1952 Dillard and Davis had been in a different class from the oppo-
sition, and in Melbourne the superiority of the top two was even more
emphatic. Davis ran an unratified 13.3y just before the Games, and had
set a world record of 13.4 in the US Championships, but was only just
favoured over Calhoun, with whom he had tied for first in the US
Olympic Trials. The rivalry between the two men was bitter after Davis
had stated that Calhoun was “a flash in the pan” and wouldn’t be able
to go the distance outdoors.
In the heats Davis and US third string Shankle ran 14.0, while
Calhoun and the talented Lauer ran 14.1. All three Americans ran 14.0
in the semi-finals, with Lauer next fastest (14.4).
Calhoun and Lorger were fastest off the blocks in the final, and by
the second hurdle it was clearly a duel between the two star Americans.
The margin scarcely varied from the 30cm Calhoun took at the start
and Davis was never able to get closer. The two men flashed across the
line in 13.70 and 13.73 respectively, remarkable running on a soft cin-
der surface into a strong headwind. Experts considered that on a good
hard surface and with no wind, the time would have been three or four
tenths faster.
| Semi 1 | time | | 1. Jack Davis | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Martin Lauer | Germany | 14.4s | | 3. Stanko Lorger | Yugoslavia | 14.6s | | 4. Evaristo Iglesias |  Cuba | 14.6s | | 5. Edmond Roudnitska |  France | 14.9s | | 6. Mechiel Burger |  South Africa | 15.0s |
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| Semi 2 | time | | 1. Lee Calhoun | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Joel Shankle | United States | 14.0s | | 3. Boris Stoliarov | Soviet Union | 14.5s | | 4. Berthold Steines | Germany | 14.5s | | 5. Ghulam Raziq |  Pakistan | 14.6s | | 6. Jean-Claude Bernard | France | 14.6s |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Jack Davis | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Edmond Roudnitska | France | 14.3s | | 3. Ghulam Raziq | Pakistan | 14.5s | | 4. Eamonn Kinsella |  Ireland | 14.6s | | 5. Kenneth Doubleday |  Australia | 14.8s | | 6. Guillermo Zapata |  Colombia | 15.3s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Lee Calhoun | United States | 14.1s | | 2. Stanko Lorger | Yugoslavia | 14.6s | | 3. Jean-Claude Bernard | France | 14.7s | | 4. Frederick Parker |  Great Britain | 14.8s | | 5. John Chittick | Australia | 14.9s | | 6. Kalim Khawaja | Pakistan | 16.1s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Joel Shankle | United States | 14.0s | | 2. Bernhard Steines | Germany | 14.3s | | 3. Mechiel Burger | South Africa | 14.4s | | 4. Anatoly Mikhailov | Soviet Union | 14.5s | | 5. Keith Gardner |  Jamaica | 14.6s | | 6. James Joyce | Australia | 14.7s |
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| Heat 4 | time | | 1. Martin Lauer | Germany | 14.2s | | 2. Evaristo Iglesias | Cuba | 14.3s | | 3. Boris Stoliarov | Soviet Union | 14.3s | | 4. Peter Hildreth | Great Britain | 14.5s | | 5. Ioannis Cambadellis |  Greece | 15.1s | | 6. Siri Chand Ram |  India | 15.2s |
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