The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.
[1] The returning champion was David Oliver, while world leader in 2015 Orlando Ortega is ineligible after switching his nationality to Spain (after defecting to the USA at the 2013 Championships).
Similar to Jon Drummond's incident in 2003, Ash refused to accept the disqualification and took several minutes before being convinced to leave the track.
Merritt seemed to be running too close to the hurdles and had to slow to compensate giving Shubenkov a slight edge.
[5] His late rush passed Merritt to earn silver and make for a challenge to Shubenkov for the gold.