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1981 California State HH Champ - David Ashford - now resident of Illinois still cooks in the 110m HH as a 40 year old!!! - 13.73 - wow!!!

On the fortuitous date 7/11, David Ashford of Illinois shattered the M40 world record in the 110-meter (39-innch) high hurdles with a time of 13.73 seconds (into a slight wind).

Highlighting a season in which he and his agent promised a masters record in the event, Ashford, 40, beat the former record and the former record holder in the same race in the finals of the WMA World Championships in Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Karl Smith of Jamaica saw his 13.96 record from 2001 Brisbane eclipsed, but at age 43 Smith clocked 14.24 to smash the old single-age record of 14.9 by Walt Butler in 1984.

The results:

Finals
1 Ashford, Dave M40 United States 13.73* -0.5 13.13 98.32%
2 Smith, Karl M43 Jamaica 14.24 -0.5 13.29 97.19%
3 Patterson, Glenn M41 United States 14.61 -0.5 13.86 93.16%
4 Wilkinson, Des M40 Great Britain 15.30 -0.5 14.63 88.24%
5 Hayrapetyan, Gerasim M44 Armenia 16.02 -0.5 14.82 87.14%
6 Patry, Marc M42 France 16.10 -0.5 15.15 85.28%
7 Reddington, Glen M40 Great Britain 16.21 -0.5 15.50 83.28%
8 Drabben, Helmut M44 The Netherlands 16.98 -0.5 15.71 82.21%

Ashford had served notice of his ability to run sub-14 at Wednesday's prelims, when he ran a sensational 14.02 -- nearly two seconds ahead of the runner-up in Heat 1. Heat 2 was won by Jamaica's Smith.

Ashford was the 1981 California high school champion in the 120-yard high hurdles (13.67) while competing (as an 18-year-old senior) for West Covina High School. In 1982, he set a slew of freshman records at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. He’s now a professional fitness trainer living in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, with his wife and two cats.

He has all-time PRs of 10.42 in the 100 and 20.94 in the 200 – and ranks as the 10th-fastest over-35 110 hurdler (Olympic height) of all time.

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