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Also Known As hurdle race

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Fanny Blankers-Koen leaps over a hurdle ahead of other runners during the 80-metre hurdles race at the 1948 London Olympics, with a stadium crowd in the background.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, at far right, leads and clears a hurdle ahead of other runners during the 80-metre hurdles race at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Edwin Moses
Sally Pearson of Australia in mid-air clearing a hurdle during the Women's 100m Hurdles Final at the London 2012 Olympic Games, wearing a yellow and green uniform.
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
How sprinters jump over hurdles
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Sally Pearson
Australian athlete
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
American athlete
Fanny Blankers-Koen leaps over a hurdle ahead of other runners during the 80-metre hurdles race at the 1948 London Olympics, with a stadium crowd in the background.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
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Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
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Liu Xiang
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Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses
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Alvin Kraenzlein.
Alvin Kraenzlein
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Gail Devers
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Lee Calhoun
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David George Brownlow Cecil
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John Walter Tewksbury
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Glenn Davis
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David Hemery
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