Jackson Thinks He’s Top Hurdler : Track and field: After winning 110-meter event in European meet, British athlete says he deserves to be rated No. 1.

Colin Jackson needed a strong finish to win the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.18 seconds, giving Britain its eighth gold medal at the European Track and Field Championships Friday.

The British tied East Germany in golds. The Soviets won five golds Friday for a total of six going into today’s final day of competition. West Germany, which had won only one gold, added two Friday.

Jackson rallied to beat teammate Tony Jarrett, who finished second in 13.21.

“I guess it is time I am rated No. 1 in the world,” said Jackson, the European record-holder who ran the year’s fastest time of 13.08 in winning at the Commonwealth Games in February. Last year, he was ranked second to world record-holder and two-time Olympic champion Roger Kingdom of the United States, who has had a subpar season.

Heike Henkel of West Germany won the women’s high jump at 6 feet 6 1/4, and her teammate Sabine Braun took the heptathlon with 6,688 points.

Igor Astapkovich of the Soviet Union won the hammer throw at 276-0.

The Soviet’s Leonid Voloshin easily won the triple jump at 58-2 1/2. Khristo Markov of Bulgaria was second at 57-2 1/4, and another Soviet, Igor Lapshin, finished third at 56-10 3/4.

Andrei Perlov of the Soviet Union won the 50-kilometer (31-mile) walk over the hilly roads around Split on a hot, muggy day in 3 hours 54 minutes 36 seconds.

The Soviets’ Tatyana Ledovskaya won the women’s 400-meter intermediate hurdles, and teammate Yelena Romanova took the women’s 10,000 meters.

Ledovskaya’s time of 53.62 was the fastest in the world this season.