European Athletics Championships 2002/100 m women

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 7th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Ekaterini Thanou ( GRE )   Kim Gevaert ( BEL )   Manuela Levorato ( ITA )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The 100-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships 2002 was held on August 6th and 7th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Greek Olympic runner-up in 2000 , World Cup third in 1999 , World Cup second in 2001 and European championship third in 1998 Ekaterini Thanou . Second place went to the Belgian Kim Gevaert , who two days later also won silver in the 200 meters . Bronze went to the Italian Manuela Levorato . She also repeated this placement in the 200-meter race two days later.

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
European record	10.73 s	Christine Arron	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 18, 1998
EM record

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 6, 2002

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.1 m / s

Marion Wagner (here on the far left with the German sprint relay in 2009) was three hundredths of a second missing to reach the semi-finals

Johanna Manninen was eliminated in sixth place in her run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Glory alozie	Spain	11.42
2	Julija Barzewitsch	Belarus	11.42
3	Marina Kislowa	Russia	11.45
4th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	11.49
5	Marion Wagner	Germany	11.53
6th	Johanna Manninen	Finland	11.88
7th	Daniela Bellanova	Italy	11.78

Forward 2

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manuela Levorato	Italy	11.45
2	Georgía Koklóni	Greece	11.51
3	Sina Schielke	Germany	11.53
4th	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.54
5	Beata Szkudlarz	Poland	11.56
6th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.60
7th	Aksel Gurcan	Turkey	11.98

Forward 3

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.19
2	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	11.35
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.36
4th	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.40
5	Agnė Eggerth	Lithuania	11.50
6th	Larissa Kruglowa	Russia	11.45
7th	Vincenza Calì	Italy	11.66

Forward 4

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.07
2	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	11.40
3	Dolphins Combe	France	11.45
4th	Olena Pastushenko	Ukraine	11.47
5	Natalia Ignatova	Russia	11.62
6th	Bettina Mueller	Austria	11.62
7th	Enikő Szabó	Hungary	11.62

Semifinals

August 7, 2002

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

For Sina Schielke (right) , the semi-finals were the end of the line

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.27
2	Glory alozie	Spain	11.32
3	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	11.33
4th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	11.37
5	Georgía Koklóni	Greece	11.44
6th	Sina Schielke	Germany	11.48
7th	Marina Kislowa	Russia	11.49
8th	Dolphins Combe	France	11.65

Run 2

Julija Barzewitsch, later Julija Neszjarenka, missed the final by two hundredths of a second

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.05
2	Manuela Levorato	Italy	11.26
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.35
4th	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.42
5	Julija Barzewitsch	Belarus	11.44
6th	Agnė Eggerth	Lithuania	11.44
7th	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	11.52
8th	Olena Pastushenko	Ukraine	11.54

final

Kim Gevaert - Vice European Champion over 100 and 200 meters

August 7, 2002

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.10
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.22
3	Manuela Levorato	Italy	11.23
4th	Glory alozie	Spain	11.32
5	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.37
6th	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	11.41
7th	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.57
8th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	11.63

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  Bronze medalist Manuela Levorato

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  Abiodun Oyepitan came in sixth place

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  Alenka Bikar was eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on November 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 485 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 1, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed November 1, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 1, 2019