World Athletics Championships 1999/100 m hurdles for women

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	41 athletes from 31 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25 (preliminary) August 26 (quarter-finals) August 27 (semi-finals) August 28 (final)
Medalists Gail Devers ( USA )   Glory Alozie ( NGR )   Ludmila Engquist ( SWE )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held from August 25 to 28, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The winner was the American world champion in 1995 and runner-up world champion in 1991 / 1993 Gail Devers . She also has 100 meters two-time Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 ) and world champion in 1993. American US Even with the 4 x 100-meter relay team had 1996 Olympic gold and 1997 World Cup won -Gold. Second place went to the Nigerian Glory Alozie . Bronze went to the Swedish defending champion and Olympic champion in 1996 Ludmila Engquist , who was already world champion in 1991 under her former name Ludmila Naroschilenko, at that time she had competed for the Soviet Union .

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.

However, the US world champion Gail Devers only narrowly missed this record in the final. With her 12.37 s she was only three hundredths of a second slower than Ginka Sagortschewa . Gail Devers set a new world annual high.

In addition, the following records were recorded:

• There was a new continental record:
  • 12.44 s (African record) Glory Alozie ( Nigeria ) - final on August 28 (0.7 m / s tailwind)
• National records have been improved five times:
  • 13.36 s Bich Huong Vu ( Vietnam ) - 1st run on August 25 (0.9 m / s tailwind)
  • 13.14 s Nadine Faustin ( Haiti ) - 3rd run on August 25 (0.3 m / s headwind)
  • 12.88 s Trecia Roberts ( Thailand ) - 4th run on August 25 (1.1 m / s tailwind)
  • 12.83 s Trecia Roberts (Thailand) - 1st semi-finals on August 27 (1.9 m / s tailwind)
  • 12.47 s Ludmila Engquist ( Sweden ) - final on August 28 (0.7 m / s tailwind)

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 25, 1999, 12:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.82
2	Feng Yun	People's Republic of China	12.85
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.94
4th	Patricia Girard	France	12.99
5	Nerea Azkárate	Spain	13.35
6th	Bich Huong Vu	Vietnam	13.36 NO
7th	Verónica De Paoli	Argentina	13.58

Forward 2

August 25, 1999, 12:38 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.80
2	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.91
3	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.95
4th	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	13.10
5	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	13.14
6th	Chan Sau Ying	Hong Kong	13.54
7th	Laureta Derhemi	Albania	15.20

Forward 3

August 25, 1999, 12:46 p.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	12.94
2	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.96
3	Svetlana Laukowa	Russia	12.98
4th	Andria King	United States	13.13
5	Nadine Faustin	Haiti	13,14 NO
6th	Keturah Anderson	Canada	13.31
7th	Svetlana Gnezdilov	Israel	13.47

Forward 4

August 25, 1999, 12:54 p.m.

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.67
2	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	12.88 NO
3	Miesha McKelvy	United States	12.95
4th	Keri Maddox	Great Britain	12.95
5	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	13.04
6th	Manuela Bosco	Finland	13.34
7th	Carine Cresto	Monaco	15.75

Forward 5

August 25, 1999, 1:02 p.m.

Wind: +2.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.70
2	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	12.89
3	Rosa rakotozafy	Madagascar	13.02
4th	Diane Allahgreen	Great Britain	13.11
5	Shanna Gurbanova	Belarus	13.23
6th	Anita Trump	Latvia	13.30
7th	Maria-Joëlle Conjungo	Central African Republic	13.89

Forward 6

August 25, 1999, 1:10 p.m.

Wind: +3.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.62
2	Svetla Pishtikova	Bulgaria	12.64
3	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.08
4th	Eunice Barber	France	13.21
5	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.25
DNF	Urška Kop	Slovenia
DNS	Susan Smith-Walsh	Ireland

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

As seventh of her preliminary run, Nadine Faustin did not reach the quarterfinals

August 26, 1999, 7:45 p.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.75
2	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.90
3	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	12.97
4th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	13.04
5	Keri Maddox	Great Britain	13.21
6th	Andria King	United States	13.31
7th	Nadine Faustin	Haiti	13.32
8th	Feng Yun	People's Republic of China	13.43

Quarter-finals 2

Maurren Higa Maggi - her seventh place in the second quarter-finals was not enough to make it into the final

August 26, 1999, 7:53 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.60
2	Svetla Pishtikova	Bulgaria	12.72
3	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	12.82
4th	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.85
5	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.96
6th	Miesha McKelvy	United States	12.98
7th	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	13.10
8th	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	13.12

Quarter-finals 3

August 26, 1999, 8:01 pm

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.53
2	Patricia Girard	France	12.78
3	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.80
4th	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.94
5	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.98
6th	Diane Allahgreen	Great Britain	12.99
7th	Shanna Gurbanova	Belarus	13.31
8th	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.33

Quarter-finals 4

• 

  Eunice Barber finished sixth in her quarter-finals and did not reach the next round

• 

  Kirsten Bolm's seventh place in her quarter-finals was not enough to make it into the semi-finals

• 

  Manuela Bosco (here in her life as an actress 2011) failed as eighth of her quarter-finals

August 26, 1999, 8:09 pm

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.65
2	Feng Yun	People's Republic of China	12.85
3	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	12.94
4th	Svetlana Laukowa	Russia	12.95
5	Rosa rakotozafy	Madagascar	12.98
6th	Eunice Barber	France	13.09
7th	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	13.11
8th	Manuela Bosco	Finland	13.43

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 27, 1999, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.50
2	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.71
3	Patricia Girard	France	12.76
4th	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.81
5	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	12.83 NO
6th	Svetlana Laukowa	Russia	12.86
7th	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.95
8th	Feng Yun	People's Republic of China	12.98

Semi-final run 2

August 27, 1999, 7:17 pm

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.70
2	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.75
3	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.79
4th	Svetla Pishtikova	Bulgaria	12.79
5	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.83
6th	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	12.86
7th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.96
8th	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	12.98

• 

  Gail Devers , who was highly decorated at the Olympic Games and World Championships, became world champion

• 

  Seventh-placed Delloreen Ennis-London

final

August 28, 1999, 8:05 pm

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.37 WL
2	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.44 AF
3	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.47 NO
4th	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.71
5	Svetla Pishtikova	Bulgaria	12.75
6th	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.80
7th	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.87
8th	Patricia Girard	France	12.97

Video

• 1999 World Championships, Women's 100m Hurdles Final, Seville, Spain , Video posted August 11, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed July 26, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 26, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) at todor66.com, accessed July 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100 m Hurdles, Seville 1999, p. 301 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 26, 2020