page_title: 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles
section_title: Semifinals
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles / Results / Semifinals
caption_attribution_description: World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka - 110 metres hurdles runner Xiang Liu celebrating the first gold medal ever for China
context_page_description: The men's 60 metres hurdles competition at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 14 March.
  The competition was set to be one of the highlights of the competition from the very beginning: it was the first major competition for 2004 Olympic champion Liu Xiang's after a long period out through injury and it was the first time that he, Dayron Robles and Terrence Trammell – the best of their generation – had faced each other since the 2007 World Championships.
  Only ten athletes were eliminated in the first round in which American hurdlers David Oliver and Trammell ran the fastest times. The majority of athletes gave conservative performances and Ladji Doucouré of France was the only unexpected elimination, as he suffered an injury at the beginning of heat four. The no false-start rule claimed two victims in the first semi-final in which Liu and Trammell progressed. Former European Indoor champion Gregory Sedoc was eliminated in the second of the three semis while Petr Svoboda won the last semi-final; all the favourites progressed to the final.
context_section_description: Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.
caption: Liu Xiang was the slowest qualifier for the final
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