| 21. | Australian hurdle races are now conducted over wooden fences which provide some flexibility when jumped.
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| 22. | For the long hurdle race, they run 300 meters instead of the 400 metres hurdles.
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| 23. | At the first Women's World Games in 1922 a 100 m hurdles race was run.
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| 24. | He finished in fourth place in the hurdles race with a time of 18.8 seconds.
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| 25. | The original race distances created were 390, 400, 535 and 560 yards including hurdle races.
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| 26. | Up until recently, the Gold Cup was a four-mile ( 6 km ) long hurdle race.
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| 27. | The gamble succeeded, with Yellow Sam winning the 13-hurdle race by two and a half lengths.
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| 28. | But Gail Devers stopped during the 100-meter hurdle race, saying she had aggravated a hamstring injury.
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| 29. | Moore, 70, never lost a 400-meter hurdles race.
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| 30. | The races were originally flat; a hurdle race was introduced in 1848, but discontinued in 1856.
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