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)
Medalists Benita Fitzgerald-Brown ( USA )   Shirley Strong ( GBR )   Michèle Chardonnet ( FRA ) Kim Turner ( USA )

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
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
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

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on January 14, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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
3. ↑ SportsReference 100 m hurdles , accessed January 14, 2018