Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle...
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and field event of hurdling and shuttle hurdle relay. Traditional hurdles are made from wattle, usually of hazel or willow. Hurdle-making is a traditional...
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Look up hurdling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hurdling may refer to: Hurdle, a portable woven fence, usually made of willow Hurdling, athletics...
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The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for...
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Track and field (section Hurdling)
which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping...
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100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race...
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The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic...
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Waka hurdling, also sometimes called waka peke (jumping waka), is a Māori sporting competition of jumping unornamented waka tīwai (river canoes) over wooden...
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Indoor hurdling champion. As well as his international titles, Foster was twice NCAA outdoor champion (1978 and 1980) in the 110 meters hurdles and was...
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The Greatwood Hurdle is a Grade 3 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Old Course...
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Hurdle is the most prestigious hurdling event in the National Hunt calendar. Its list of winners features many of the most highly acclaimed hurdlers in...
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Ockert Cilliers (category South African male hurdlers)
to take part in athletics as well. Cilliers chose 200m and 300m hurdles, and hurdling quickly became his primary interest. He is a member of the Fenerbahçe...
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Colin Jackson (category British male hurdlers)
18 February 1967) is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great...
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Lana T. Hurdle is an American public official who served as the acting United States Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration. Hurdle served...
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1981 in Nottingham, England) is a British hurdling athlete. As of 2004, he was Britain's number one sprint hurdler. However, competing for Team GB at the...
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during its running there are nine hurdles to be jumped. The race is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Hurdling scheduled to take place each year in...
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A hurdle race in Great Britain and Ireland is a National Hunt horse race where the horses jump over obstacles called hurdles or flights that are over three...
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Alvin Kraenzlein (category American male hurdlers)
developing a pioneering technique of straight-leg hurdling, which allowed him to set two world hurdle records. He is an Olympic Hall of Fame (1984) and...
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Clinton Merrick Hurdle (born July 30, 1957) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and manager. Hurdle played for the Kansas City...
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A hurdle model is a class of statistical models where a random variable is modelled using two parts, the first which is the probability of attaining value...
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60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor...
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Hurdle rate may refer to a minimum acceptable rate of return on a project a level of return that a hedge fund must exceed before it can charge a performance...
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80 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling run by women until 1972 in international competitions. Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been...
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distinct branches, hurdling and steeplechase, as well as flat races called "bumpers". Hurdling involves horses jumping over hurdles, while steeplechase...
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events: the shot, discus, and javelin weigh less, and the sprint hurdles use lower hurdles over 100 m rather than 110 m. The points tables used are the same...
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the first hurdle from eight to seven, using his left leg for hurdling. On August 29, 2011, Liu Xiang competed in the men's 110-metre hurdles final in the...
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Perdita Felicien (category Canadian female hurdlers)
jump. Felicien dedicated herself to hurdling at Pine Ridge Secondary School and won the Ontario high-school hurdling championship in 1998. That year she...
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Thoroughbred Racing Pacing Triple Crown Trotting Triple Crown Triple Crown of Hurdling Triple Crown of Motorsport Triple Crown of endurance racing Triple Crown...
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The first women's sprint hurdling event was added to the programme at the 1932 Olympics in the form of the 80 metres hurdles. At the 1972 Games the women's...
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groups: track events (including sprints, middle- and long-distance running, hurdling and relays), field events (including javelin, discus, hammer, pole vault...
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