World Athletics Championships 1991/100 m hurdles for women

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 30th (final)
Medalists Lyudmila Naroshilenko ( URS )   Gail Devers ( USA )   Natalija Hryhorjewa ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 29 and 30, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The hurdlers from the Soviet Union won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. World champion was Lyudmila Naroschilenko , who received Swedish citizenship in 1996 and from then on competed for Sweden under her new name Ludmila Engquist. The second place went to the American Gail Devers , who was victorious in the Pan American Games in 1987 over 100 meters and with the US 4 x 100 meter relay . Bronze went to Natalija Hryhorjewa .

Existing records

World record	12.21 s	Jordanka Donkova	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
World championship record	12.34 s	Ginka Sagortschewa	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

The World Cup record was not set and not improved at these World Cups.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1991, 11:40 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Cornelia Oschkenat, third in the 1987 World Cup and Vice European Champion in 1986 , was eliminated this time in the preliminary stages

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Zhang Yu	People's Republic of China	13.12
2	Arnita Myricks	United States	13.12
3	Anne Piquereau	France	13.20
4th	Lesley-Ann Skeete	Great Britain	13.33
5	Mihaela Pogăcean	Romania	13.38
6th	Cornelia Oschkenat	Germany	13.55

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  Paraskevi Patoulidou was eliminated third in her preliminary run - in 1992 she was Olympic champion

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  Liliana Năstase, runner-up in the heptathlon three days earlier , was fourth in the second run and was not enough to make it to the final

Forward 2

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	13.02
2	Odalys Adams	Cuba	13.30
3	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece	13.41
4th	Liliana Năstase	Romania	13.41
5	Donalda Duprey	Canada	13.75
6th	Carmen Bezanilla	Chile	14.01
DNS	Yasmina Azzizi	Algeria

The Olympic runner- up in 1988 and vice world champion in 1987 Gloria Siebert, former Gloria Uibel, failed here in the preliminary round

Forward 3

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.77
2	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	13.10
3	Florence Colle	France	13.12
4th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.22
5	Gloria Siebert	Germany	13.29
6th	Luo Bin	People's Republic of China	13.53

Forward 4

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	France	12.92
2	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.10
3	Kay Morley-Brown	Great Britain	13.24
4th	Nadezhda Bodrova	Soviet Union	13.34
5	Brigita Bukovec	Yugoslavia	13.44
6th	Monica Pellegrinelli	Switzerland	13.49
7th	Wang Shu-Hwa	Chinese Taipei	13.81

Forward 5

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Naroshilenko	Soviet Union	12.66
2	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.86
3	Sylvia Dethier	Belgium	13.07
4th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	13.08
5	Dawn Bowles	United States	13.41
6th	Michelle Edwards	Great Britain	13.50
7th	Ayumi Sasaki	Japan	13.85

Semifinals

August 29, 1991, 6:00 p.m.

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

Semi-final run 1

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	12.66
2	Gail Devers	United States	12.71
3	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	France	12.88
4th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	13.11
5	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	13.17
6th	Sylvia Dethier	Belgium	13.18
7th	Kay Morley-Brown	Great Britain	13.24
8th	Odalys Adams	Cuba	13.26

Semi-final run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Naroshilenko	Soviet Union	12.52
2	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.91
3	Florence Colle	France	12.94
4th	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.94
5	Anne Piquereau	France	13.02
6th	Arnita Myricks	United States	13.12
7th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.19
8th	Zhang Yu	People's Republic of China	13.24

final

Vice World Champion Gail Devers (here in 2011) - In 1987 she was the winner of the Pan American Games over 100 meters and the 4 x 100 meter relay

August 30, 1991, 5:50 p.m.

Wind: −1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Naroshilenko	Soviet Union	12.59
2	Gail Devers	United States	12.63
3	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	12.69
4th	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	France	12.84
5	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.88
6th	Florence Colle	France	13.01
7th	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.06
8th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	13.07

Video

• Women's 100m Hurdles Final World Champs in Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed May 1, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 1, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed May 1, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100m Hurdles, Tokyo 1991, p. 300 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 1, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 1, 2020