Grant Holloway reportedly led the race from the start as the Jamaican advanced from its midfield. As he slid more and more into veteran Orlando Ortega's trajectory, he got out of phase and finally broke into the final hurdle with full speed.
A change of balls later he stumbled into the finish and was able to concede that he was allowed to drop the title as the world's best in the distance. American Holloway won at 13.10 before the Russian Sergey Sjubenkov and the Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde.