Aries Merritt pictured clearing the last hurdle in his heat of the men's 110mh.
The 2012 Olympic Champion and World Record holder (12.80) also finished 6th
in the 2011 Championships two years earlier in South Korea.
That position in Daegu was later amended to equal fifth, with William Sharman (both 13.67).
Sharman in Moscow made his fifth place certain by one hundredth of a second.
| 1 |
David OLIVER |
USA
|
13.00
|
| 2 |
Ryan WILSON |
USA |
13.13 |
| 3 |
Sergey SHUBENKOV |
RUS |
13.24 |
| 4 |
Jason RICHARDSON |
USA |
13.27 |
| 5 |
William SHARMAN |
GBR |
13.30 |
| 6 |
Aries MERRITT |
USA |
13.31
|
| 7 |
Thomas MARTINOT-LAGARDE |
FRA |
13.42 |
| 8 |
Andrew RILEY |
JAM |
13.51 |
After the competition, he felt very ill and was diagnosed with collapsing focal
segmental glomerulosclerosis, a rare congenital kidney disease, aggravated by
a parvovirus that had attacked his kidneys and bone marrow. After several months
of medical treatment, he was eventually able to return to competition the
following year, albeit far from his former best.