European Athletics Championships 2012/100 m women

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary / semi-finals) June 28th (final)
Medalists Iwet Lalowa ( BUL )   Olessja Powch ( UKR )   Lina Grinčikaitė ( LTU )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 100-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 27 and 28, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa became European champion . She won ahead of Olessja Powch from Ukraine. Lina Grinčikaitė from Lithuania came third.

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
Championship record

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

Preliminary round

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

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  The European record holder and in the past very successful Christine Arron missed the semi-finals by one place

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  Martina Amidei was eliminated in sixth of her preliminary run

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  Seventh place in the first run for Eleni Artymata and no longer there

June 27, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olessja Powch	Ukraine	11.30
2	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.40
3	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey	11.48
4th	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	11.53
5	Christine Arron	France	11.55
6th	Martina Amidei	Italy	11.60
7th	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	11.64
8th	Sonia Tavares	Portugal	11.65

Forward 2

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  Andreea Ogrăzeanu missed two hundredths of a second to move into the semifinals as fourth of their heats

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  Her sixth place in the second heat was not enough for Maria Belimbasaki for the semifinals

June 27, 2012, 10:08 am

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.06
2	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.26
3	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.27
4th	Audrey Alloh	Italy	11.53
5	Andreea Ogrăzeanu	Romania	11.55
6th	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	11.56
7th	Amy Foster	Ireland	11.58
8th	Cristina Llovera	Andorra	13.01

Forward 3

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  Hanna-Maari Latvala missed the semi-finals by one place

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  Jeanette Kwakye failed as seventh of her preliminary run in the qualification

June 27, 2012, 10:16 am

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.38
2	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	11.41
3	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.46
4th	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.52
5	Hanna-Maari Latvala	Finland	11.67
6th	Gabriela Laleva	Bulgaria	11.79
7th	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.98
8th	Ivana Rožman	Macedonia	12.86

Forward 4

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  Yevgenia Polyakova - she missed the semi-finals in her preliminary run by one rank

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  Seventh place in the fourth heat was too little for Mujinga Kambundji to reach the next round

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  Diane Borg had no chance with a time of over twelve seconds

June 27, 2012, 10:24 am

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.14
2	Julia Balykina	Belarus	11.39
3	Ashleigh Nelson	Great Britain	11.43
4th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.50
5	Yevgenia Polyakova	Russia	11.55
6th	Folake Akinyemi	Norway	11.62
7th	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	11.68
8th	Diane Borg	Malta	12.14

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

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  Natalija Pohrebnjak did not reach the final as sixth of her semifinal race

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  As the seventh of their race, Nimet Karakuş was eliminated in the semifinals

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  Julija Neszjarenka, 2004 Olympic champion, did not take part in the semifinals

June 27, 2012, 8:03 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.23
2	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.30
3	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.34
4th	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.39
5	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	11.39
6th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.52
7th	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey	11.61
DNS	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus

Run 2

June 27, 2012, 8:09 pm

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olessja Powch	Ukraine	11.13
2	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.17
3	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.36
4th	Julia Balykina	Belarus	11.42
5	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.43
6th	Ashleigh Nelson	Great Britain	11.43
7th	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	11.45
8th	Audrey Alloh	Italy	11.51

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  Daria Korczyńska reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fifth of their race

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  Ashleigh Nelson finished sixth in her semifinal run, missing the final

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  As seventh of her race Kateřina Čechová failed in the semifinals

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  Audrey Alloh - eighth in the second semifinals and eliminated

final

European champion Iwet Lalowa

June 28, 2012, 6:30 p.m.

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.28
2	Olessja Powch	Ukraine	11.32
3	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.32
4th	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.39
5	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.42
6th	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.42
7th	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.54
8th	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	11.62

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  Vice European Champion Olessja Powch

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  Bronze medalist Lina Grinčikaitė

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  Ezinne Okparaebo finished fourth

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  Olga Belkina finished fifth

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  Defending champion Verena Sailer reached sixth place

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  Anne Cibis, formerly Anne Möllinger, came in seventh place

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  Tatjana Pinto (second from right) - eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 14, 2020
• Women 100m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 14, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 14, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 514f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 14, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 14, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 14, 2020

Video

• 100 m. Women Final (21st European Athletics Championships, Helsinki, 2012) on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed January 21, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 21, 2020