Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

The women's 100 metres hurdles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6–7 August.^[1]

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	6–7 August
Competitors	50 from 36 nations
Winning time	12.35 OR
Medalists
Sally Pearson  Australia Dawn Harper  United States Kellie Wells  United States
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Official Video

The semi-finals showed all the top athletes were at their best, with the first 5 finalists achieving their personal best, except Sally Pearson who improved the 2012 world leading time, and Nevin Yanıt's new national record for Turkey.

In the final under London rains, Pearson led from the start but after ticking a hurdle, defending champion Dawn Harper closed fast to make it close. Kellie Wells was solidly in third while Lolo Jones edged Yanit for fourth place. It was an Olympic record for Pearson, a new personal best for Harper and Wells, equal national record for Yanit in 5th, equal personal best for 6th place Phylicia George and a season best for Jones after a difficult journey from the next to last hurdle four years earlier.

Competition format

The women's 100m Hurdles competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final.^[2] The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals. A total of eight competitors qualified for the Final from the Semifinals.^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.21	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria	20 August 1988
Olympic record	Joanna Hayes (USA)	12.37	Athens, Greece	24 August 2004
2012 World leading	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.40	Paris, France	6 July 2012

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
7 August	Final	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.35	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 6 August 2012	10:05	Round 1
Tuesday, 7 August 2012	19:15 21:15	Semifinals Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Alina Talay	Belarus	12.71	Q, PB
2	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.75	Q
3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.79	Q
4	Anne Zagré	Belgium	13.04	q
5	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.10
6	Rosvitha Okou	Ivory Coast	13.62	SB
7	Ayako Kimura	Japan	13.75
—	Rahamatou Drame	Mali	—	DQ

• Rahamatou Drame was disqualified for false starting.

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Beate Schrott	Austria	13.09	Q
2	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.46	Q
3	Ivanique Kemp	Bahamas	13.51	Q
4	Seun Adigun	Nigeria	13.56
5	Anastassiya Pilipenko	Kazakhstan	13.77
6	Lecabela Quaresma	São Tomé and Príncipe	14.56	SB
—	Jessica Ennis	Great Britain	—	DNS
—	Latoya Greaves	Jamaica	—	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.69	Q
2	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	12.87	Q
3	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	13.01	Q, SB
4	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.06	q
5	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	13.07	q
6	Lina Florez	Colombia	13.17
7	Natalya Ivoninskaya	Kazakhstan	13.48
8	Marthe Koala	Burkina Faso	13.91	PB

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
DSQ	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	12.70	Q, Doping
1	Dawn Harper	United States	12.75	Q
DSQ	Yekaterina Galitskaya	Russia	12.89	Q, Doping
3	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.91	q, SB
4	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93	q
5	Brigitte Merlano	Colombia	13.21	SB
6	Jung Hye-Lim	South Korea	13.48
7	Jeimy Bernárdez	Honduras	14.36

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.57	Q
2	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	13.01	Q
3	Carolin Nytra	Germany	13.30	Q
4	Anastasiya Soprunova	Kazakhstan	13.40
5	Sonata Tamošaitytė	Lithuania	13.59
6	LaVonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	13.60
7	Dipna Lim Prasad	Singapore	14.68	SB
8	Silvia Panguana	Mozambique	14.68	PB
—	Ekaterina Poplavskaya	Belarus	—	DQ

• Ekaterina Poplavskaya ran off the track after failing to clear her fourth hurdle, and was therefore disqualified.

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lolo Jones	United States	12.68	Q, SB
2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.83	Q
3	Marzia Caravelli	Italy	13.01	Q
DSQ	Yuliya Kondakova	Russia	13.10	q, doping
5	Sun Yawei	China	13.26
6	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	13.33
7	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	13.98
8	Odile Ahouanwanou	Benin	14.76	NR
9	Bibiana Olama	Equatorial Guinea	16.18	SB

Semi-finals

Semi-Finals Official Video

Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Dawn Harper	United States	12.46	Q, PB
2	Beate Schrott	Austria	12.83	Q
3	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	12.83
4	Alina Talay	Belarus	12.84
DSQ	Yekaterina Galitskaya	Russia	12.90
6	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93
7	Carolin Nytra	Germany	13.31
—	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	DQ

• Reïna-Flor Okori was disqualified for false starting.

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.39	Q, SB
2	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.66	Q
3	Lolo Jones	United States	12.71	q
4	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.79
5	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.91	=SB
DSQ	Yuliya Kondakova	Russia	13.13	DSQ (doping)
7	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.26
8	Ivanique Kemp	Bahamas	13.56

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.51	Q, SB
DSQ	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	12.58	Q, NR, Doping
2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.65	q, PB
3	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	12.75	SB
4	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	12.81	SB
5	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.94
6	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.02
—	Marzia Caravelli	Italy	DQ

• Marzia Caravelli stopped running after failing to clear the fourth hurdle and was disqualified.

Final

Wind: −0.2 m/s

Rank	Lanes	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	7	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.35	OR
	4	Dawn Harper	United States	12.37	PB
	5	Kellie Wells	United States	12.48	PB
4	2	Lolo Jones	United States	12.58	SB
DSQ	6	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	12.58	=NR, Doping
5	3	Phylicia George	Canada	12.65	=PB
6	8	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.69
7	9	Beate Schrott	Austria	13.07

References

1. "Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics". Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
2. "Women's 100m Hurdles". London 2012 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
3. "Women's 100m competition format". London 2012 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.