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