1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 100 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 9, 1984 (preliminary round) August 10, 1984 (semi-finals / finals) |
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The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 9 and 10, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 22 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the American Benita Fitzgerald-Brown , who won ahead of the British Shirley Strong . The bronze medal was awarded to two athletes who crossed the finish line at the same time: Michèle Chardonnet from France and Kim Turner from the USA.
Ulrike Denk and Edith Oker started for the Federal Republic of Germany . Oker was eliminated in the semifinals. Denk reached the final and came in seventh.
Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1980 | Vera Komissowa ( Soviet Union ) | 12.56 s | Moscow 1980 |
World Champion 1983 | Bettine Jahn ( GDR ) | 12.35 s | Helsinki 1983 |
European champion 1982 | Lucyna Kałek ( Poland ) | 12.45 s | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown ( USA ) | 13.16 s | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Grisel Machado ( Cuba ) | 13.64 s | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | Beatriz Capotostro ( Argentina ) | 13.2 s | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Emi Akimoto ( Japan ) | 13.63 s | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Nawal El Moutawakel ( Morocco ) | 13.8 s | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 12.36 s | Grażyna Rabsztyn ( Poland ) | Warsaw , Poland | June 13, 1980 |
Olympic record | 12.56 s | Vera Komissowa ( Soviet Union ) | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 28, 1980 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 9, 1984
In the preliminary round, the 22 participants were drawn in four runs. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. Furthermore, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
With wind-assisted 12.86 s, the Briton Shirley Strong ran the fastest lead time in run 2. The slowest time with which an athlete could qualify directly for the semi-finals was 13.72 s, achieved by Canadian Sue Kameli in run 4.
Forward 1
Wind: −1.3 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown | United States | 13.13 s | |
2 | Michèle Chardonnet | France | 13.32 s | |
3 | Sharon Danville | Great Britain | 13.46 s | |
4th | Cécile Ngambi | Cameroon | 13.54 s | |
5 | Karen Nelson | Canada | 13.77 s | |
6th | Barbara Ingiro | Papua New Guinea | 15.39 s |
Forward 2
Wind: +2.8 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shirley Strong | Great Britain | 12.66 s | |
2 | Edith Oker | BR Germany | 13.14 s | |
3 | Glynis Nunn | Australia | 13.29 s | |
4th | Sophia Hunter | Jamaica | 13.44 s | |
5 | Liu Huajin | People's Republic of China | 13.64 s | |
6th | Elissavet Pantazi | Greece | 14.20 s | |
DNS | Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia | Brazil |
Forward 3
Wind: −1.2 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ulrike Denk | BR Germany | 13.32 s | |
2 | Kim Turner | United States | 13.33 s | |
3 | Marie-Noëlle Savigny | France | 13.36 s | |
4th | Sylvia Malgadey-Forgrave | Canada | 13.47 s | |
5 | Semra Aksu | Turkey | 13.96 s | |
DNS | Miriama Tuisorisori | Fiji |
Forward 4
Wind: −0.7 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pamela Page | United States | 13.32 s | |
2 | Maria Usifo | Nigeria | 13.54 s | |
3 | Sue Kameli | Canada | 13.72 s | |
4th | Beatriz Capotosto | Argentina | 13.90 s | |
5 | Laurence Elloy | France | 13.98 s | |
DNS | Christa Schumann-Lottmann | Guatemala |
Semifinals
Date: August 10, 1984
In each of the two semi-finals, the first four (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
The fastest semifinal time was achieved by Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, USA, in run 2 with 12.96 s.
Run 1
Wind: −0.2 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim Turner | United States | 13.11 s | |
2 | Shirley Strong | Great Britain | 13.16 s | |
3 | Marie-Noëlle Savigny | France | 13.30 s | |
4th | Pamela Page | United States | 13.36 s | |
5 | Edith Oker | BR Germany | 13.37 s | |
6th | Sylvia Malgadey-Forgrave | Canada | 13.42 s | |
7th | Cécile Ngambi | Cameroon | 13.70 s | |
8th | Sophia Hunter | Jamaica | 13.84 s |
Run 2
Wind: +1.2 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown | United States | 12.96 s | |
2 | Michèle Chardonnet | France | 13.09 s | |
3 | Glynis Nunn | Australia | 13.14 s | |
4th | Ulrike Denk | BR Germany | 13.20 s | |
5 | Sharon Danville | Great Britain | 13.35 s | |
6th | Maria Usifo | Nigeria | 13.52 s | |
7th | Lua Huajin | People's Republic of China | 13.57 s | |
8th | Sue Kameli | Canada | 13.65 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown | United States | 12.84 s | |
2 | Shirley Strong | Great Britain | 12.86 s | |
3 | Michèle Chardonnet | France | 13.06 s | |
Kim Turner | United States | |||
5 | Glynis Nunn | Australia | 13.20 s | |
6th | Marie-Noëlle Savigny | France | 13.28 s | |
7th | Ulrike Denk | BR Germany | 13.32 s | |
8th | Pamela Page | United States | 13.40 s |
Date: August 10, 1984
Wind: −0.7 m / s, temperature: 24 ° C
All three Americans and two French women qualified for the final. There was also one runner from the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia and Great Britain.
The Olympic boycott prevented the start of the athletes in the top eight places in the 1984 world rankings, all of whom came from the GDR and Eastern Europe. These runners had also played the dominant role at the world championships last year . They had occupied places one to four as well as six and seven. Of course, that reduced competition at the Los Angeles Games considerably. The favorite was the Brit Shirley Strong, fifth in the World Cup . The supposedly strongest US runner Stephanie Hightower surprisingly failed to qualify as fourth in the US Olympic qualifications. Strong's main rivals have been seen in US Benita Fitzgerald-Brown and Australian Glynis Nunn.
In the final, Ulrike Denk from Germany led the field after the start. US runners Kim Turner and Strong were right behind her. In the middle of the race, Strong took the lead, behind her Fitzgerald-Brown and Turner. On the ninth hurdle, Fitzgerald-Brown passed the Briton and won the race just ahead of Strong. Benita Fitzgerald-Brown was Olympic champion and Shirley Strong won the silver medal two hundredths of a second behind her. Kim Turner crossed the finish line in third place at the same time as the French Michèle Chardonnet. Ulrike Denk was seventh behind Glynis Nunn and Marie-Noëlle Savigny from France. The third American Pamela Page took eighth place. Only two runners undercut the 13-second mark. At the last World Cup , all eight finalists succeeded.
Due to the Olympic boycott, for the first time there was no medal for athletes from Eastern Europe or the GDR who had won all nine medals in this discipline.
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , Eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 46f
Web links
- SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 263, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 100m hurdles Shirley Strong , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ a b c Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 263, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference 100 m hurdles , accessed January 14, 2018