World Athletics Championships 2015/100 m hurdles for women

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	100-meter hurdles for women
gender	Women
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	37 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	August 27, 2015 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 28, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Danielle Williams ( JAM )
silver	Cindy Roleder ( GER )
bronze	Alina Talaj ( BLR )

Beijing National Stadium

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 27 and 28, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The Jamaican Danielle Williams won the world title . The German Cindy Roleder became vice world champion . Belarusian Alina Talaj won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Jordanka Donkova	12.21 s	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
Championship record	Sally Pearson	12.28 s	World Cup in Daegu , South Korea	September 3, 2011

Prelims

From the five preliminary runs, the four first in each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

The French Vice European Champion Cindy Billaud was eliminated in sixth place in her preliminary run

The Finn Nooralotta Neziri did not reach the next round as sixth of her prelim

The Spaniard Caridad Jerez finished fifth in the fifth heat, which was not enough to advance

August 27, 2015, 11:15 am local time (5:15 am CEST )
Wind: −1.8 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Danielle Williams	Jamaica	12.77
2	5	Kendra Harrison	United States	12.90
3	6th	Isabelle Pedersen	Norway	12.96
4th	4th	Ekaterina Galitskaia	Russia	13.14
5	8th	Hanna Plotitsyna	Ukraine	13.15
6th	3	Cindy Billaud	France	13.23
7th	9	Lavonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	13.70

Run 2

August 27, 2015, 11:23 local time (5:23 a.m. CEST )
Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.86 SB
2	7th	Sharika Nelvis	United States	12.93
3	3	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	12.93
4th	6th	Karolina Kołeczek	Poland	13.05
5	4th	Nina Morozova	Russia	13.06
6th	5	Nooralotta Neziri	Finland	13.13
7th	9	Adanaca Brown	Bahamas	13.74

Run 3

August 27, 2015, 11:31 am local time (5:31 am CEST )
Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Dawn Harper Nelson	United States	12.79
2	5	Kierre Beckles	Barbados	12.88 NO
3	3	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.90
4th	9	Michelle Jenneke	Australia	13.02
5	4th	Beate scrap	Austria	13.04
6th	7th	Kimberly Laing	Jamaica	13.10
7th	6th	Devynne Charlton	Bahamas	13.16

Run 4

August 27, 2015, 11:39 am local time (5:39 am CEST )
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Brianna Rollins	United States	12.67
2	3	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	12.78 PB
3	9	Andrea Ivančević	Croatia	12.88
4th	5	Cindy Ofili	Great Britain	12.97
5	2	Phylicia George	Canada	13.03
6th	7th	Adelly Santos	Brazil	13.29
7th	4th	Yvette Lewis	Panama	14.12
8th	8th	Beatriz Flamenco	El Salvador	14.77

Run 5

August 27, 2015, 11:39 am local time (5:39 am CEST )
Wind: −1.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.73
2	5	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.86
3	9	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.87
4th	4th	Wu Shuijiao	People's Republic of China	13.09
5	8th	Caridad Jerez	Spain	13.27
6th	3	Lindsay Lindley	Nigeria	13.30
7th	2	Fabiana Moraes	Brazil	13.35
8th	6th	Ana Camila Pirelli	Paraguay	14.09

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Despite her personal best with 12.86 s, the Norwegian Isabelle Pedersen did not reach the final as fourth in the first semi-final run

The Canadian Phylicia George was a hundredth of a second behind Pedersen fifth in the first semifinal and was eliminated

The Belgian Anne Zagré was eliminated as third in her semi-final race after a strong 12.88 seconds

August 28, 2015, 7:25 pm local time (1:25 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Danielle Williams	Jamaica	12.58 PB
2	5	Sharika Nelvis	United States	12.59
3	6th	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.70 PB
4th	8th	Isabelle Pedersen	Norway	12.86 PB
5	2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.87 SB
6th	9	Cindy Ofili	Great Britain	12.91
DNF	7th	Dawn Harper Nelson	United States
	3	Beate scrap	Austria

Run 2

August 28, 2015, 7:33 pm local time (1:33 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.62
2	6th	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.79 PB
3	9	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	12.81
4th	5	Kierre Beckles	Barbados	12.90
5	3	Kimberly Laing	Jamaica	13.00
6th	8th	Michelle Jenneke	Australia	13.01
DNF	2	Ekaterina Galitskaia	Russia
DSQ	4th	Kendra Harrison	United States	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Run 3

August 28, 2015, 7:41 pm local time (1:41 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Brianna Rollins	United States	12.71
2	6th	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	12.86
3	9	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.88
4th	3	Nina Morozova	Russia	12.91
5	8th	Karolina Kołeczek	Poland	12.97
6th	7th	Nikkita Holder	Canada	13.00
7th	2	Wu Shuijiao	People's Republic of China	13.06
8th	5	Andrea Ivančević	Croatia	33.95

final

August 28, 2015, 12:35 p.m. local time (6:35 a.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.3 m / s

That this race would be close had already become apparent in the heats and semifinals. Some runners, who came from the second row, showed with personal bests that they had in some cases significantly improved and that they could be expected. The field of favorites was close together. The Australian Olympic champion from 2012 and vice world champion from 2013 Sally Pearson was not among the participants due to an injury. The US Olympic champion in 2008 , Olympic runner-up in 2012 and World Cup fourth in 2013, Dawn Harper Nelson, was eliminated in the semifinals. The favorites were primarily the US defending champion Brianna Rollins as well as the British World Cup third in 2013 and reigning European champion Tiffany Porter. In addition, there were the athletes who had presented themselves particularly well in the semifinals. These were mainly the Jamaican Danielle Williams, the US American Sharika Nelvis and the Belarusian Alina Talaj, the 2012 European champion .

Porter and D. Williams, who were ahead, presented themselves particularly quickly in the final. Porter developed an easy lead up to the halfway point. Behind them followed the two Americans Rollins and Sharika Nelvis. But as the goal got closer, the field shrank more and more. Porter lost her rhythm a little at the last hurdles, so that Danielle Williams overtook her and became world champion. With 12.57 s she improved her personal best again. Right on the inside on lane two, Talaj got stronger and stronger in the end, but outside on lane eight, the German Cindy Roleder in particular stormed far forward. Just two hundredths of a second behind D. Williams, she won the silver medal and improved her personal best from the semifinals again. Seven hundredths of a second after Roleder, Alina Talaj came third and set a new Belarusian national record. Behind them, Brianna Rollins and Tiffany Porter were fourth and fifth. There was only a hundredth of a second between places three, four and five. Sixth was Noemi Zbären from Switzerland ahead of Shermaine Williams from Jamaica. Sharika Nelvis had just let her run slow down and came in eighth place.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	5	Danielle Williams	Jamaica	12.57 PB
	8th	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.59 PB
	2	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.66 NO
4th	4th	Brianna Rollins	United States	12.67
5	7th	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.68
6th	3	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	12.95
7th	9	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	12.95
8th	6th	Sharika Nelvis	United States	13.06

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  World champion with personal best: Danielle Williams, Jamaica

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  Vice world champion Cindy Roleder from Germany - also with a personal best in the final

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  Bronze medalist Alina Talaj, Belarus - in the final with a Belarusian record

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  The US defending champion Brianne Rollins had to be satisfied with fourth place this time

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  5th place for the Briton Tiffany Porter

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  The American Sharika Nelvis ( right ) came in eighth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 100 m hurdles women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 9, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 9, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 9, 2018

Video

• 100m Hurdles Semi Final 1 IAAF World Championship Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 28, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2018
• 100m Hurdles Semi Final 2 IAAF World Championship Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 28, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2018
• 100m Hurdles Semi Final 3 IAAF World Championship Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 28, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2018
• Danielle Williams Wins 100m Hurdles Final IAAF World Championship 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 28, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2018