World Athletics Championships 1995/100 m hurdles for women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 18th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 19th (final)
Medalists Gail Devers ( USA )   Olga Schischigina ( KAZ )   Julija Graudyn ( RUS )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 19, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

It won the two-time vice world champion ( 1991 and 1993 ) Gail Devers from the United States , who was also Olympic champion in 1992 and 1993 world champion over 100 meters . She won ahead of the Asian record holder Olga Schischigina from Kazakhstan . Bronze went to the Russian Vice European Champion from 1994 Julija Graudyn .

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 existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

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.

Forward 1

August 5, 1995, 11:05 am

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.93
2	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.97
3	Anne Piquereau	France	13.05
4th	Caren Jung	Germany	13.13
5	Carla Tuzzi	Italy	13.32
6th	Chan Sau Ying	Hong Kong	13.53

Forward 2

August 5, 1995, 11:11 a.m.

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	13.07
2	Marsha Guialdo	United States	13.08
3	Monique Tourret	France	13.13
4th	Birgit Hamann	Germany	13.21
5	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.31
6th	Isabel Abrantes	Portugal	13.77
DNF	Hsu Hsiu-ying	Chinese Taipei

Forward 3

August 5, 1995, 11:17 am

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.90
2	Patricia Girard	France	12.95
3	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.99
4th	Lidija Jurkova	Belarus	13.00
5	Odalys Adams	Cuba	13.33
6th	Heike Blassneck	Germany	13.47
DNS	Gilda Massa	Peru

Forward 4

August 5, 1995, 11:23 a.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.80
2	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.01
3	Jackie Agyepong	Great Britain	13.06
4th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	13.13
5	Doris Williams	United States	13.33
6th	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	13.45
DNS	Joyce Melendez	Puerto Rico

Forward 5

August 5, 1995, 11:29 am

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	12.84
2	Gail Devers	United States	12.85
3	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.99
4th	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	13.18
5	Monica Grefstad	Norway	13.30
6th	Zhou Jing	People's Republic of China	13.61
7th	Véronique Linster	Luxembourg	13.74

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 5, 1995, 6:20 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.67
2	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	12.74
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.82
4th	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.86
5	Patricia Girard	France	12.87
6th	Lidija Jurkova	Belarus	12.95
7th	Jackie Agyepong	Great Britain	13.14
8th	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	13.23

Semi-final run 2

August 5, 1995, 6:26 p.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.78
2	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.82
3	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.86
4th	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	12.88
5	Marsha Guialdo	United States	12.91
6th	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.98
7th	Anne Piquereau	France	13.09
8th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	13.24

final

After two silver medals ( 1991 / 1993 ) Gail Devers won gold this time - about 100 meters she was 1992 Olympic champion and 1993  world champion

August 6, 1995, 6:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.68
2	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.80
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.85
4th	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	12.87
5	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.95
6th	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	12.96
7th	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.98
8th	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	13.02

Video

• Women's 100m Hurdles Final - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 9, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100m Hurdles, Gothenborg 1995, p. 300 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 8, 2020