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hurdles

Sprint events in which competitors must clear 10 barriers, the hurdles. Most athletic competitions have two hurdles events: the 110-metre hurdles (100 metres for women) and the 400-metre hurdles. In the men's 110-metre hurdles the barriers are 107 cm/42.13 in high, and the 400-metre hurdles are 91 cm/35.83 in high; the 100-metre hurdles for women are 84 cm/33.07 in high, and the 400-metre hurdles measure 76 cm/29.92 in.



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But it appeared that as the paddock had not been used during the winter, the hurdles made in the autumn for it were broken.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The whole post was there, and there was such another whooping and shouting when the seventeen kids came flying down the turf and sailing over the hurdles - oh, beautiful to see
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Another set of hurdles and then the field were out of sight.
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