1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 100 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 57 athletes from 38 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 26, 1996 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 27, 1996 (semi-finals / final) |
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The women's 100-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26 and 27, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 57 athletes took part.
The American Gail Devers became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Jamaican Merlene Ottey and Gwen Torrence from the USA.
Silke Lichtenhagen , Melanie Paschke and Andrea Philipp started for Germany . Lichtenhagen and Philipp were eliminated in the quarter-finals, Paschke in the semi-finals.
The Swiss Mireille Donders failed in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1992 | Gail Devers ( USA ) | 10.82 s | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Gwen Torrence ( USA ) | 10.85 s | Gothenburg 1995 |
European champion in 1994 | Irina Priwalowa ( Russia ) | 11.02 s | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American Champion 1995 | Chryste Gaines ( USA ) | 11.05 s | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | Heather Samuel ( Antigua and Barbuda ) | 11.31 s | Guatemala City 1995 |
South America Champion 1995 | Cleide Amaral ( Brazil ) | 11.38 s | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Cui Dangfeng ( People's Republic of China ) | 11.36 s | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Georgette N'Koma ( Cameroon ) | 11.67 s | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania champion 1994 | Vaciseva Tavaga ( Fiji ) | 12.17 s | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 10.49 s | Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA ) | Indianapolis , USA | July 16, 1988 |
Olympic record | 10.62 s | Quarter finals from Seoul , South Korea | September 24, 1988 |
Preliminary round
Date: July 26, 1996
The athletes competed in a total of seven preliminary runs. The first four female sprinters qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
Natalija Vorobjowa from Kazakhstan and Lyudmila Dimitriadi from Uzbekistan were among the first athletes to take part in the Olympic Games for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, respectively.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.24 s | |
2 | Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe | Madagascar | 11.36 s | |
3 | Irina Privaleova | Russia | 11.42 s | |
4th | Zlatka Georgieva | Bulgaria | 11.74 s | |
5 | Natalia Vorobyova | Kazakhstan | 11.91 s | |
6th | Lyudmila Dimitriadi | Uzbekistan | 12.04 s | |
7th | Ouk Chanthan | Cambodia | 14.82 s |
Forward 2
Shanna Pintusevich from Ukraine and Elvira Cabbarowa from Azerbaijan were among the first athletes to compete in the Olympic Games for Ukraine and Azerbaijan respectively. Hermin Joseph from Dominica was one of the first female athletes at the Olympic Games from Dominica.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Shanna Pinusevych | Ukraine | 20.49 s | |
2 | Melanie Paschke | Germany | 11.27 s | |
3 | Odiah Sidibé | France | 11.40 s | |
4th | Mary Tombiri-Shirey | Nigeria | 11.50 s | |
5 | Hermin Joseph | Dominica | 11.56 s | |
6th | Cleide Amaral | Brazil | 11.76 s | |
7th | Myriam Mani | Cameroon | 11.76 s | |
8th | Elvira Cabbarova | Azerbaijan | 11.96 s |
Forward 3
Sortelina Pires and her teammate Odair Baia were the first athletes from São Tomé and Príncipe to compete in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 11.13 s | |
2 | Susanthika Jayasinghe | Sri Lanka | 11.18 s | |
3 | Ekaterini Thanou | Greece | 11.35 s | |
4th | Irina Pucha | Ukraine | 11.36 s | |
5 | Heather Samuel | Antigua and Barbuda | 11.44 s | |
6th | Yan Jiankui | People's Republic of China | 11.46 s | |
7th | Mirtha Brock | Colombia | 11.83 s | |
8th | Sortelina Pires | Sao Tome and Principe | 13.31 s |
Forward 4
Michelle Baptiste and her teammate Ivan Jean-Marie were the first St. Lucia athletes to compete in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Juliet Cuthbert | Jamaica | 11.06 s | |
2 | D'Andre Hill | United States | 11.11 s | |
3 | Silke Lichtenhagen | Germany | 11.30 s | |
4th | Eldece Clarke | Bahamas | 11.33 s | |
5 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 11.59 s | |
6th | Cydonie Mothersille | Cayman Islands | 11.61 s | |
7th | Michelle Baptiste | St. Lucia | 11.92 s | |
8th | Natalie Martindale | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 12.25 s |
Forward 5
Isménia do Frederico was the first female athlete from Cape Verde to compete in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Marina Trandenkowa | Russia | 11.20 s | |
2 | Chioma Ajunwa | Nigeria | 11.25 s | |
3 | Myra Mayberry | Puerto Rico | 11.51 s | |
4th | Stephanie Douglas | Great Britain | 11.61 s | |
5 | Zandra Borrero | Colombia | 11.62 s | |
6th | Jerneja Perc | Slovenia | 11.63 s | |
7th | Beverly McDonald | Jamaica | 12.08 s | |
8th | Isménia do Frederico | Cape Verde | 13.03 s |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gwen Torrence | United States | 11.11 s | |
2 | Natalia Voronova | Russia | 11.22 s | |
3 | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.32 s | |
4th | Ekaterini Koffa | Greece | 11.33 s | |
5 | Sanna Hernesniemi | Finland | 11.39 s | |
6th | Marcia Richardson | Great Britain | 11.42 s | |
7th | Wang Huei-chen | Chinese Taipei | 11.70 s | |
8th | Nests Geniwala'a | Solomon Islands | 13.74 s | |
9 | Juliana Obiong | Equatorial Guinea | 13.88 s |
Forward 7
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gail Devers | United States | 10.92 s | |
2 | Mary Onyali | Nigeria | 11.17 s | |
3 | Andrea Philipp | Germany | 11.32 s | |
4th | Debbie Ferguson | Bahamas | 11.33 s | |
5 | Simmone Jacobs | Great Britain | 11.39 s | |
6th | Mireille Donders | Switzerland | 11.67 s | |
7th | Lee Yeong-suk | South Korea | 11.88 s | |
8th | Pastora Chavez | Honduras | 12.10 s |
Quarter finals
Date: July 26, 1996
From the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes in each run qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gwen Torrence | United States | 11.11 s | |
2 | Marina Trandenkowa | Russia | 11.15 s | |
3 | Chioma Ajunwa | Nigeria | 11.24 s | |
4th | Odiah Sidibé | France | 11.38 s | |
5 | Ekaterini Koffa | Greece | 11.38 s | |
6th | Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabé | Madagascar | 11.43 s | |
7th | Heather Samuel | Antigua and Barbuda | 11.60 s | |
8th | Stephanie Douglas | Great Britain | 11.75 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gail Devers | United States | 10.94 s | |
2 | Mary Onyali | Nigeria | 11.08 s | |
3 | Debbie Ferguson | Bahamas | 11.26 s | |
4th | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.37 s | |
5 | Andrea Philipp | Germany | 11.38 s | |
6th | Irina Pucha | Ukraine | 11.42 s | |
7th | Marcia Richardson | Great Britain | 11.55 s | |
DNF | Susanthika Jayasinghe | Sri Lanka |
Run 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Juliet Cuthbert | Jamaica | 11.20 s | |
2 | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.21 s | |
3 | D'Andre Hill | United States | 11.21 s | |
4th | Irina Privaleova | Russia | 11.40 s | |
5 | Simmone Jacobs | Great Britain | 11.47 s | |
6th | Ekaterini Thanou | Greece | 11.48 s | |
7th | Silke Lichtenhagen | Germany | 11.53 s | |
8th | Mary Tombiri-Shirey | Nigeria | 11.56 s |
Run 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 11.02 s | |
2 | Shanna Pinusevych | Ukraine | 11.14 s | |
3 | Natalia Voronova | Russia | 11.17 s | |
4th | Melanie Paschke | Germany | 11.18 s | |
5 | Eldece Clarke | Bahamas | 11.47 s | |
6th | Sanna Hernesniemi | Finland | 11.49 s | |
7th | Myra Mayberry | Puerto Rico | 11.66 s | |
8th | Zlatka Georgieva | Bulgaria | 11.99 s |
Semifinals
Date: July 27, 1996
From the two semi-finals, the first four runners qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 10.93 s | |
2 | Gwen Torrence | United States | 10.97 s | |
3 | Marina Trandenkowa | Russia | 11.07 s | |
4th | Shanna Pinusevych | Ukraine | 11.14 s | |
5 | Chioma Ajunwa | Nigeria | 11.14 s | |
6th | D'Andre Hill | United States | 11.20 s | |
7th | Debbie Ferguson | Bahamas | 11.28 s | |
8th | Odiah Sidibé | France | 11.35 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gail Devers | United States | 11.00 s | |
2 | Mary Onyali | Nigeria | 11.04 s | |
3 | Natalia Voronova | Russia | 11.07 s | |
4th | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.07 s | |
5 | Juliet Cuthbert | Jamaica | 11.07 s | |
6th | Melanie Paschke | Germany | 11.14 s | |
7th | Irina Privaleova | Russia | 11.31 s | |
8th | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.32 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gail Devers | United States | 10.94 s | |
2 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 10.94 s | |
3 | Gwen Torrence | United States | 10.96 s | |
4th | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.00 s | |
5 | Marina Trandenkowa | Russia | 11.06 s | |
6th | Natalia Voronova | Russia | 11.10 s | |
7th | Mary Onyali | Nigeria | 11.13 s | |
8th | Shanna Pinusevych | Ukraine | 11.14 s |
Date: July 27, 1996
Wind: −0.7 m / s
In the final, two US athletes and two Russian athletes each met a starter from the Bahamas, Jamaica, Russia and Ukraine.
The favorites were the world's best and reigning world champion Gwen Torrence from the USA, her compatriot Gail Devers, Olympic champion in 1992 , and the Jamaican vice world champion Merlene Ottey. Another highly rated athlete was the Russian European champion Irina Priwalowa. However, she was unable to qualify for the final due to an injury.
Devers had the best start and immediately got a clear lead. But Torrence and v. a. Ottey came quickly closer. In the last few meters it got tighter and in the end the photo of the finish had to be used to decide between gold and silver. Like four years before, Gail Devers was Olympic champion and Merlene Ottey won the silver medal. Both sprinters were stopped with 10.94 s. Devers was a whiff of five thousandths of a second faster. Gwen Torrence crossed the finish line as the bronze medalist just two hundredths of a second behind. The distances to the next runners were also small. Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas was fourth just four hundredths of a second behind. The Russian Marina Trandenkowa came in fifth, ahead of her compatriot Natalja Voronowa.
Gail Devers won the ninth gold medal for the USA in this discipline in the sixteenth Olympic final. It was also the fourth US win in a row.
After Wyomia Tyus in 1964 and 1968, Gail Devers was only the second athlete to repeat her Olympic victory over 100 meters .
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 44f
Web links
- SportsReference 100 m , accessed March 6, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , pp. 69f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
Video
- Women's 100m Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 793 , accessed on March 6, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 69, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 69f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 70, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018