World Athletics Championships 1997/100 m hurdles for women

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Ludmila Engquist ( SWE )   Svetla Dimitrova ( BUL )   Michelle Freeman ( JAM )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 9 and 10, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The world champion was the 1996 Swedish Olympic champion Ludmila Engquist , who had already won the world championship title in 1991 for the Soviet Union under her then name Lyudmila Naroschilenko . Silver went to the reigning European champion Svetla Dimitrova from Bulgaria , who had also won the bronze medal in 1994 with the 4 x 100 meter relay in her country. The Jamaican Michelle Freeman , who won the 1996 Olympic bronze and the 1993 World Cup bronze with her country's sprint relay teams, came third. She had run the national record with 12.53 s in the run-up, which she had improved by a hundredth of a second in the semifinals. In the final, she missed this record by nine hundredths of a second.

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.

National records have been improved three times:

• 12.53 s Michelle Freeman ( Jamaica ) - 1st heat on August 9 (0.2 m / s tailwind)
• 13.00 s Corien Botha ( South Africa ) - 1st run on August 9 (0.2 m / s tailwind)
• 12.52s Michelle Freeman ( Jamaica ) - 1st semi-final on August 10 (0.4 m / s headwind)

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 9, 1997, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.53 NO
2	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.91
3	Anjanette Kirkland	United States	12.99
4th	Heike Blassneck	Germany	13.00
5	Corien Botha	South Africa	13.00 NO
6th	Aneta Sosnowska	Poland	13.28
7th	Virginie Gollino	Monaco	15.26
DNS	Véronique Linster	Luxembourg

Forward 2

August 9, 1997, 7:15 p.m.

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.62
2	Patricia Girard	France	12.67
3	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.88
4th	Sriyani Kulawansa-Fonseca	Sri Lanka	13.07
5	Angela Thorp	Great Britain	13.08
6th	Carla Tuzzi	Italy	13.10
7th	Taiwo Aladefa	Nigeria	13.16

Forward 3

August 9, 1997, 7:20 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.84
2	Diane Allahgreen	Great Britain	13.03
3	Dawn Bowles	United States	13.11
4th	Nadège Joseph	France	13.23
5	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	13.32
6th	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.34
7th	Hristiána Tabáki	Greece	13.82

Forward 4

As sixth of her preliminary, Johanna Halkoaho did not reach the final

August 9, 1997, 7:25 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.68
2	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.83
3	Astia Walker	Jamaica	12.86
4th	Iveta Rudová	Czech Republic	13.14
5	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	13.21
6th	Johanna Halkoaho	Finland	13.52
DNF	Anna Leszczyńska	Poland

Forward 5

August 9, 1997, 7:30 p.m.

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.96
2	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.97
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	13.07
4th	Melissa Morrison	United States	13.11
5	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.19
6th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.42
7th	Verónica De Paoli	Argentina	13.83

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 10, 1997, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.52 NO
2	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.74
3	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.76
4th	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.80
5	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.97
6th	Astia Walker	Jamaica	13.00
7th	Anjanette Kirkland	United States	13.04
8th	Julija Graudyn	Russia	13.07

Semi-final run 2

August 10, 1997, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.53
2	Patricia Girard	France	12.68
3	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.88
4th	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.89
5	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.91
6th	Heike Blassneck	Germany	12.94
7th	Corien Botha	South Africa	13.12
8th	Diane Allahgreen	Great Britain	13.25

final

August 10, 1997, 8:35 pm

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.50
2	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.58
3	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.61
4th	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.69
5	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.87
6th	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.88
7th	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.98
DSQ	Patricia Girard	France	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start

Video

• Women's 100m Hurdles World Athletics Championships Athens 1997 from youtube.com, accessed July 1, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 4, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100 m Hurdles, Athens 1997, p. 300f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 1, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 1, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 1, 2020