#18 – Javier Culson
The Puerto Rican champion in the 400-meter middle of the road obstacles will turn 28 on the eve of the Games, and hopes to assert the global title that would approve him as the top hurdler on the planet. Javier Culson claims five of the main seven times on the planet this year. Culson won the silver award in the occasion at the previous two World Championships, however was disposed of in the elimination rounds in Beijing.