World Athletics Championships 1995/100 m for women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	55 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 7th (semifinals / final)
Medalists Gwen Torrence ( USA )   Merlene Ottey ( JAM )   Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 100-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 7th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the US American World Cup runner-up in 1991 and World Cup third in 1993, Gwen Torrence , who was also Olympic champion over 200 meters in 1992 and vice world champion in 1991 and 1993. She had also won several gold and silver medals with the relays of her country over 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m at the Olympic Games and World Championships and also won a second World Championship title here in Gothenburg with the 4 × 100 m USA season .
Second place went to Jamaican Merlene Ottey , who won bronze at the 1984 Olympic Games and the 1987 and 1991 World Championships, and silver at the 1993 World Championships. Also about 200 meters she won more medals: one World Cup -Gold (1993), one World Cup is silver ( 1983 ), twice World Cup -Bronze ( 1987 /1991) and three bronze medals at the Olympic Games ( 1980 / 1984 /1992). In addition, she had won one World Cup gold and two World Cup gold bronze with her 4 x 100 meter relay. Here in Gothenburg she defended her title as world champion over 200 meters three days later and on the final day she won bronze with her sprint relay.
Bronze went to the Russian Olympic bronze medalist in 1992 ( starting for the United Team at the time ) and reigning European champion Irina Priwalowa . She was also reigning European champion over 200 meters and had won Olympic gold in 1992 with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the United Team.

Records

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
World championship record	10.82 s	Gail Devers	World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 16, 1993
		Merlene Ottey

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

The US world champion Gwen Torrence only just missed the record - in the final by only three and in the semifinals by only two hundredths of a second. The silver medalist Merlene Ottey from Jamaica also stayed in the semifinals only three hundredths of a second above the existing World Cup record, which she had set two years earlier as vice world champion at the same time as the then winner Gail Devers from the United States in the final.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 6, 1995, 10:00 a.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterina Leschchowa	Russia	11.27
2	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.44
3	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	11.51
4th	Virgen Benavides	Cuba	11.52
5	Andrea Philipp	Germany	11.66
6th	Stephanie Douglas	Great Britain	11.67
7th	Magdalena Ansue	Equatorial Guinea	13.62

Forward 2

August 6, 1995, 10:06 am

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.15
2	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.23
3	Mary Tombiri	Nigeria	11.42
4th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.45
5	Gabriele Becker	Germany	11.54
6th	Rahela Market	Croatia	11.87
7th	Sortelina da Silva	Sao Tome and Principe	13.16

Forward 3

August 6, 1995, 10:12 am

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.34
2	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.35
3	Hermin Joseph	Dominica	11.52
4th	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	11.55
5	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	11.60
6th	Jerneja Perc	Slovenia	11.86
7th	Brianie Massaka	Republic of the Congo	12.67

Forward 4

August 6, 1995, 10:18 am

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.26
2	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	11.42
3	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	11.47
4th	Savatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.52
5	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	11.63
6th	Damayanthi darsha	Sri Lanka	11.65
7th	Kate Clarke	Liberia	13.45
8th	Awa Diarra	Mauritania	13.86

Forward 5

Chandra Sturrup retired with her 11.99 s in the preliminary round

August 6, 1995, 10:24 a.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.11
2	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.27
3	Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	11.31
4th	Zlatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	11.36
5	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.59
6th	Georgette Nkoma	Cameroon	11.80
7th	Shabana Akhtar	Pakistan	12.40

Forward 6

August 6, 1995, 10:30 a.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carlette Guidry	United States	11.18
2	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.32
3	Mirtha Brock	Colombia	11.56
4th	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	11.57
5	Katia Regina Santos	Brazil	11.68
6th	Odile Singa	France	11.70
7th	Thi Lan Ank Hoang	Vietnam	12.42
DNS	Desiree Cocks	Angola

Forward 7

August 6, 1995, 10:36 am

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.15
2	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	11.34
3	Dolphins Combe	France	11.39
4th	Eldece Clarke	Bahamas	11.40
5	Wang Huei-Chen	Chinese Taipei	11.84
6th	Thoumphone Phommasanh	Laos	13.86
DNS	Natalie Jones	Grenada

Forward 8

August 6, 1995, 10:42 am

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.28
2	Celena Mondie-Milner	United States	11.30
3	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.52
4th	Frédérique Bangué	France	11.54
5	Cleide Amaral	Brazil	11.57
6th	Judith Boshoff	Namibia	12.14
DNS	Antónia Margarete de Jesus	Angola

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

August 6, 1995, 4:55 pm

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Celena Mondie-Milner	United States	11.26
2	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.27
3	Ekaterina Leschchowa	Russia	11.33
4th	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.35
5	Hermin Joseph	Dominica	11.44
6th	Virgen Benavides	Cuba	11.49
7th	Mary Tombiri	Nigeria	11.52
8th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.55

Quarter-finals 2

August 6, 1995, 5:00 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.10
2	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.13
3	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.22
4th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.22
5	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.35
6th	Zlatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	11.37
7th	Gabriele Becker	Germany	11.54
8th	Dolphins Combe	France	11.68

Quarter-finals 3

August 6, 1995, 5:05 pm

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.11
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.17
3	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.28
4th	Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	11.41
5	Eldece Clarke	Bahamas	11.49
6th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	11.51
7th	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	11.76
8th	Mirtha Brock	Colombia	11.99

Quarter-finals 4

August 6, 1995, 5:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carlette Guidry	United States	11.03
2	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.09
3	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.25
4th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	11.31
5	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	11.33
6th	Savatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.36
7th	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	11.46
8th	Frédérique Bangué	France	11.55

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 7, 1995, 5:05 pm

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	10.84
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	10.85
3	Irina Privaleova	Russia	10.90
4th	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.09
5	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.09
6th	Liliana Allen	Cuba	11.24
7th	Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	11.37
8th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	11.51

Semi-final run 2

• 

  As sixth of the second race Melinda Gainsford, later Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, retired with 11.29 s in the semi-finals

August 7, 1995, 5:11 pm

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carlette Guidry	United States	11.09
2	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.13
3	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.13
4th	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.19
5	Celena Mondie-Milner	United States	11.24
6th	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	11.29
7th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.31
8th	Ekaterina Leschchowa	Russia	11.34

final

August 7, 1995, 7:25 pm

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	10.85
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	10.94
3	Irina Privaleova	Russia	10.96
4th	Carlette Guidry	United States	11.07
5	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.07
6th	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.10
7th	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	11.15
8th	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.44

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  Merlene Ottey, who has been a multiple medalist since 1980, was runner-up two years earlier - three days later she won with a wafer-thin margin of over 200 meters

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  Schanna Pintussewytsch, later Schanna Block, took fifth place

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  Mary Onyali (Photo: 2014) came in seventh place, over 200 meters she was sixth and thus reached both sprint finals as in the last World Championships

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  Eighth place for Juliet Cuthbert, 1992 Olympic runner-up over 100 and 200 meters

Video

• Women's 100m Final - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 5, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Women 100m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 248f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 5, 2020