Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Men's 110 metres hurdles

Wind:
Heat 1: -2.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.6 m/s, Heat 3: -1.1 m/s, Heat 4: +1.7 m/s[1][2]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Larry Cowling	United States	13.83	Q
2	1	Ion Oltean	Romania	14.15	Q
3	1	Vasko Nedyalkov	Bulgaria	14.27	Q
1	2	Pal Palffy	Romania	13.91	Q
2	2	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	14.14	Q
3	2	Anthony Campbell	United States	14.17	Q
5	2	Don Wright	Australia	14.83	[3]
1	3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.97	Q
2	3	Georgiy Shabanov	Soviet Union	14.04	Q
3	3	Petar Vukičević	Yugoslavia	14.47	Q
1	4	György Bakos	Hungary	13.90	Q
2	4	Aleksandr Puchkov	Soviet Union	13.94	Q
3	4	Hans-Gerd Klein	West Germany	13.94	Q
4	?	Roberto Schneider	Switzerland	14.25	q[4]
4	?	Urs Rohner	Switzerland	14.32	q[4]

Wind:
Heat 1: +1.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.7 m/s[1][5]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Larry Cowling	United States	13.76	Q
2	1	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	13.93	Q
3	1	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.97	Q
4	1	Aleksandr Puchkov	Soviet Union	14.02	[6]
1	2	Georgiy Shabanov	Soviet Union	13.86	Q
2	2	Anthony Campbell	United States	13.88	Q
3	2	Pal Palffy	Romania	13.88	Q
4	2	Hans-Gerd Klein	West Germany	13.91	q
5	2	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	13.93	q
7	?	Roberto Schneider	Switzerland	14.13	[7]
7	?	Urs Rohner	Switzerland	14.27	[7]

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Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Larry Cowling	United States	13.65
	Pal Palffy	Romania	13.73
	Georgiy Shabanov	Soviet Union	13.82
4	Anthony Campbell	United States	13.88
5	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	13.91
6	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.94
7	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	14.06
	Hans-Gerd Klein	West Germany	??.??