European Athletics Championships 2016/100 m hurdles for women

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 6th (preliminary) July 7th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Cindy Roleder ( GER )   Alina Talaj ( BLR )   Tiffany Porter ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The women's 100 meter hurdles at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place on July 6th and 7th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

European champion was the German vice world champion in 2015 and European championship third in 2014, Cindy Roleder . She won ahead of the Belarusian European champion from 2012 and World Cup third from 2015, Alina Talaj . Bronze went to the British defending champion and third place in the 2013 World Cup, Tiffany Porter . Compared to the last European Championships, the first and third swapped places this time.

Existing records

World record	12.21 s	Jordanka Donkova	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
European record
EM record	12.38 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

The since 1986 high-profile existing EM -record was never in danger even at these European Championships.

execution

For this discipline, a new competition mode was used for the first time. The eleven strongest athletes on the European annual best list did not have to compete in the preliminary round, but only entered in the semi-finals.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

July 6, 2016, 11:40 a.m.

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Giulia Pennella	Italy	13.04
2	Isabelle Pedersen	Norway	13.07
3	Reetta Hurske	Finland	13.16
4th	Stephanie Bendrat	Austria	13.17
5	Caridad Jerez	Spain	13.21
6th	Olena Janowska	Ukraine	13.23

Forward 2

July 6, 2016, 11:46 am

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Elisávet Pesirídou	Greece	12.98
2	Karolina Kołeczek	Poland	13.06
3	Luca Kozák	Hungary	13.30
4th	Micol Cattaneo	Italy	13.34
5	Lucie Koudelová	Czech Republic	13.41
6th	Eva Wimberger	Austria	13.43
DNF	Elin Westerlund	Sweden

Hurdles eliminated in the second run:

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  Luca Kozák - third place in 13.30 s

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  Micol Cattaneo - fourth place in 13.34 s

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  Lucie Koudelová - fifth place in 13.41 s

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  Eva Wimberger (right) - sixth place in 13.43 s

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  Close gaps in the third preliminary run (from left to right): Lucy Hatton (eliminated), Anne Zagré (reached semi-finals), Anamaria Nesteriuc (eliminated)

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  Ivana Lončarek scored 13.24 s in fourth of her run and was eliminated

Forward 3

July 6, 2016, 11:52 am

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eefje Boons	Netherlands	13.07
2	Anne Zagré	Belgium	13.12
3	Hanna Plotitsyna	Ukraine	13.23
4th	Ivana Lončarek	Croatia	13.27
5	Lucy Hatton	Great Britain	13.37
6th	Anamaria Nesteriuc	Romania	13.41
7th	Lilla Juhász	Hungary	13.51

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  Fourth run after the start (from left to right): Serita Solomon (eliminated), Gréta Kerekes (eliminated), Susanna Kallur (in the semi-finals), Elwira Herman (in the semi-finals)

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  Serita Solomon fourth place in 13.39 s was not enough to participate in the semi-finals

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  Laura Ikauniece-Admidina - failed as the fifth of her race in 13.51 s in the preliminary round

Forward 4

July 6, 2016, 11:58 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	13.01
2	Elwira Herman	Belarus	13.03 NU23R
3	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.18
4th	Serita Solomon	Great Britain	13.39
5	Laura Ikauniece-Admidina	Latvia	13.51
6th	Greta Kerekes	Hungary	13.54
DNS	Beate scrap	Austria

Semifinals

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

Run 1

July 7, 2016, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.76
2	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.76
3	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.89
4th	Cindy Billaud	France	12.91
5	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.96
6th	Hanna Plotitsyna	Ukraine	13.02
7th	Eefje Boons	Netherlands	13.26
8th	Reetta Hurske	Finland	13.40

Hurdlers eliminated in the first semifinals:

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  Susanna Kallur - fifth place in 12.96 s, she was only five hundredths of a second short of reaching the final

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  Hanna Plotizyna - sixth place in 13.02 s

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  Eefje Boons - seventh place in 13.26 s

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  Reetta Hurske - eighth place in 13.40 s

Run 2

July 7, 2016, 7:17 pm

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Clélia Rard-Reuse	Switzerland	12.90
2	Elisávet Pesirídou	Greece	12.95
3	Nadine Hildebrand	Germany	12.95
4th	Sandra Gomis	France	12.97
5	Kazjaryna Paplauskaya	Belarus	13.04
6th	Isabelle Pedersen	Norway	13.20
7th	Stephanie Bendrat	Austria	13.14
DSQ	Caridad Jerez	Spain	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Hurdlers eliminated in the second semifinals:

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  Nadine Hildebrand - third place in 12.95 s, she was only four hundredths of a second missing from the final

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  Sandra Gomis (far left) - fourth place in 12.97 s, only six hundredths of a second too slow to be in the final

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  Kazjaryna Paplauskaja (middle) - fifth place in 13.04 s

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  Stephanie Bendrat - seventh place in 13.14 s

Run 3

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  Nooralotta Neziri missed the final by one place in third place in her semifinal race in 13.05 s

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  Karolina Kołeczek finished fourth in 13.09 s and was eliminated

July 7, 2016, 7:25 p.m.

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.97
2	Pamela Dutkiewicz	Germany	13.02
3	Nooralotta Neziri	Finland	13.05
4th	Karolina Kołeczek	Poland	13.09
5	Elwira Herman	Belarus	13.18
6th	Nadine Visser	Netherlands	13.25
7th	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.32
8th	Giulia Pennella	Italy	13.55

Hurdlers eliminated in the third semi-final:

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  Elwira Herman - fifth place in 13.18 s

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  Nadine Visser - sixth place in 13.25 s

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  Marina Tomić (left) - seventh place in 13.32 s

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  Giulia Pennella - Eighth place in 13.55 s

final

Cindy Roleder, 2015 World silver medalist and 2014 European Championship -Third, was European champion

July 7, 2016, 7:40 p.m.

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.62 tbsp
2	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.68
3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.76
4th	Clélia Rard-Reuse	Switzerland	12.96
5	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.97
6th	Elisávet Pesirídou	Greece	13.05
7th	Cindy Billaud	France	13.29
DNF	Pamela Dutkiewicz	Germany

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  Vice European champion Alina Talay, 2012 she was European champion and 2015 World Championship -Third

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  The defending champion and third place in the 2013 World Cup, Tiffany Porter, won the bronze medal

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  Anne Zagré finished fifth

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  Elisávet Pesirídou came in sixth place

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  Cindy Billaud reached number seven

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  Pamela Dutkiewicz could not finish the race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed March 6, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed on March 6, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 6, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 6, 2020

Video

• Cindy ROLEDER 12.62 EL 100m Hurdles Final - European Athletics Championships 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on March 6, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on February 14, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on March 6, 2020