World Athletics Championships 1993/100 m for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	55 athletes from 44 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 15th (prelims / quarter finals) August 16th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Gail Devers ( USA )   Merlene Ottey ( JAM )   Gwen Torrence ( USA )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The 100-meter run for women at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 15 and 16, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the US sprinters won two gold and bronze medals.
The 1992 Olympic champion over 100 meters and vice world champion over 100 m hurdles from 1991 Gail Devers , who also won silver here in Stuttgart over 100 m hurdles four days later.
Second place took the Jamaican Merlene Ottey , who at the 1984 Olympics and the world championships in 1987 and 1991 had each won bronze and 200 meters more medals had won: twice World Cup -Bronze ( 1987 /1991), three bronze medals at the Olympic Games ( 1980 / 1984 /1992) and one World Cup is silver ( 1983 ). Here in Stuttgart, three days later, she finally managed to bring a single gold medal to her collection over 200 meters, after having won relay gold in the Jamaica team two years earlier.
The vice world champion over 100 and 200 meters in 1991 and Olympic champion in 1992 over 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters Gwen Torrence , who had also won Olympic silver over 4 × 400 meters in 1992, came third. Here in Stuttgart she won three more medals with gold over 4 × 400 meters, silver over 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters.

The outcome of the finals in this competition was extremely close. With a headwind of 0.3 meters per second, there was only a thousandth of a second between the winner Gail Devers and the vice world champion Merlene Ottey. Both set a new world championship record with their 10.82 seconds.

Records

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
World championship record	10.89 s	Merlene Ottey	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 26, 1991

Record improvement

The existing World Championship record was beaten by a total of three athletes in two races

• 10.87 s, first semi-final on August 16 (wind: −0.3 m / s):
  • Merlene Ottey , Jamaica
  • Gwen Torrence , USA
• 10.82 s, final on August 16 (wind: −0.3 m / s):
  • Gail Devers , USA
  • Merlene Ottey , Jamaica

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in seven runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

August 15, 1993, 10:25 am

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.36
2	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.37
3	Michelle Finn	United States	11.47
4th	Maguy Nestoret	France	11.56
5	N'Deye Binta Dia	Senegal	11.60
6th	Jariatou George	Gambia	12.46
7th	Natalie Martindale	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	12.86
8th	Lusia Puleanga	Tonga	13.02

Forward 2

August 15, 1993, 10:20 am

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.41
2	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.44
3	Sabine Tröger	Austria	11.46
4th	Shanna Tarnopolska	Ukraine	11.52
5	Hermin Joseph	Dominica	11.62
6th	Lydia De Vega	Philippines	12.24
7th	Erin Tierney	Cook Islands	13.16
8th	Wenona Steven	Nauru	14.70

Forward 3

August 15, 1993, 10:25 am

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	11.16
2	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	11.31
3	Nikole Mitchell	Jamaica	11.36
4th	Valerie Jean-Charles	France	11.46
5	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	11.72
6th	Oumou Sow	Guinea	12.52
7th	Feroza Khatton	Bangladesh	12.68
8th	Melvina Wulah	Liberia	12.70

Forward 4

August 15, 1993, 10:30 a.m.

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.32
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.36
3	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	11.47
4th	Cleide Amaral	Brazil	11.59
5	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	11.64
6th	Rita Pattipeilohy	Indonesia	12.44
7th	Ismenia Frederico	Cape Verde	13.03

Forward 5

August 15, 1993, 10:35 am

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.23
2	Olga Bogoslovskaya	Russia	11.40
3	Huei-Chen Wang	Chinese Taipei	11.43
4th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	11.44
5	Dessislawa Dimitrova	Bulgaria	11.55
6th	Philomena Mensah	Ghana	11.59
7th	Shabana Akhtar	Pakistan	12.76
8th	Ovidia Luis Afonso	Sao Tome and Principe	13.09

Forward 6

August 15, 1993, 10:40 am

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.41
2	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.46
3	Georgette Nkoma	Cameroon	11.67
4th	Michelle Seymour	New Zealand	11.68
5	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.69
6th	Dedra Davis	Bahamas	12.00
7th	Rachelle Godonou	Benin	12.93
8th	Said Nassianti	Comoros	14.70

Forward 7

August 15, 1993, 10:45 a.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.31
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.43
3	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	11.43
4th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	11.44
5	Miriam Ferrer	Cuba	11.50
6th	Genevieve Obone	Gabon	12.57
7th	Deirdre Caruana	Malta	12.60
8th	Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai	Vietnam	12.79

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

Jacqueline Poelman was sixth in her quarter-final race

August 15, 1993, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.02
2	Nikole Mitchell	Jamaica	11.23
3	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.29
4th	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.30
5	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.38
6th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	11.50
7th	N'Deye Binta Dia	Senegal	11.60
8th	Cleide Amaral	Brazil	11.68

Quarter-finals 2

August 15, 1993, 6:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	10.97
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.14
3	Michelle Finn	United States	11.21
4th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.33
5	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	11.40
6th	Dessislawa Dimitrova	Bulgaria	11.45
7th	Huei-Chen Wang	Chinese Taipei	11.54
8th	Maguy Nestoret	France	11.60

Quarter-finals 3

August 15, 1993, 6:20 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.19
2	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.27
3	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.44
4th	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.29
5	Miriam Ferrer	Cuba	11.53
6th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	11.60
7th	Georgette Nkoma	Cameroon	11.63
8th	Michelle Seymour	New Zealand	11.79

Quarter-finals 4

August 15, 1993, 6:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	11.04
2	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	11.24
3	Sabine Tröger	Austria	11.29
4th	Shanna Tarnopolska	Ukraine	11.30
5	Olga Bogoslovskaya	Russia	11.32
6th	Valerie Jean-Charles	France	11.39
7th	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	11.40
8th	Philomena Mensah	Ghana	11.67

Semifinals

As eighth of her semi-finals, Schanna Tarnopolska had no chance of reaching the finals

The first four athletes from each of the two semi-finals qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue.

Semi-final run 1

August 16, 1993, 6:50 pm

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	10.87 CR
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	10.87 CR
3	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.17
4th	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.19
5	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.21
6th	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	11.22
7th	Michelle Finn	United States	11.25
8th	Shanna Tarnopolska	Ukraine	11.36

Semi-final run 2

Melinda Gainsford failed as seventh of the second race in the semifinals

August 16, 1993, 6:55 pm

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	11.03
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.06
3	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.06
4th	Nikole Mitchell	Jamaica	11.26
5	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.28
6th	Sabine Tröger	Austria	11.37
7th	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.53
DNF	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica

final

Gail Devers (photo: 2011) , among other things Olympic champion from 1992 , became world champion by a wafer-thin margin

August 16, 1993, 8:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	Thousandths of a second. (unofficially)
1	Gail Devers	United States	10.82 CR	10,811
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	10.82 CR	10.812
3	Gwen Torrence	United States	10.89
4th	Irina Privaleova	Russia	10.96
5	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.05
6th	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.20
7th	Nikole Mitchell	Jamaica	11.20
8th	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.23

• 

  Vice world champion Merlene Ottey (here in 2011) , multiple medalist since 1980, lost only by a thousandth of a second

• 

  The fifth placed Mary Onyali (in 2017) - also over 200 meters three days later she was fifth

Video links

• Stuttgart 1993 Women´s 100m - Winner Gail Devers 10.81 , video published on September 14, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on May 16, 2020
• Women's 100m Final World Champs Stuttgart 1993 on youtube.com, accessed on May 16, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 16, 2020
• Women 100m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 248 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 16, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 16, 2020