1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

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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)
Medalists
gold medal Gail Devers ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Silver medal Merlene Ottey ( JAM ) JamaicaJamaica 
Bronze medal Gwen Torrence ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 

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 ) United StatesUnited States  10.82 s Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995 Gwen Torrence ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  10.85 s Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994 Irina Priwalowa ( Russia ) RussiaRussia  11.02 s Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995 Chryste Gaines ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  11.05 s Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 Heather Samuel ( Antigua and Barbuda ) Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda  11.31 s Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995 Cleide Amaral ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  11.38 s Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995 Cui Dangfeng ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  11.36 s Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996 Georgette N'Koma ( Cameroon ) CameroonCameroon  11.67 s Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994 Vaciseva Tavaga ( Fiji ) FijiFiji  12.17 s Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record 10.49 s Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  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

Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas - here in 2010 - finished the Olympic Games

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
1 Chandra Sturrup BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.24 s
2 Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe MadagascarMadagascar Madagascar 11.36 s
3 Irina Privaleova RussiaRussia Russia 11.42 s
4th Zlatka Georgieva BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 11.74 s
5 Natalia Vorobyova KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 11.91 s
6th Lyudmila Dimitriadi UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan 12.04 s
7th Ouk Chanthan CambodiaCambodia Cambodia 14.82 s

Forward 2

The Ukrainian Shanna Pinusevich - here at the 1999 World Championships - finished eighth in the final

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
1 Shanna Pinusevych UkraineUkraine Ukraine 20.49 s
2 Melanie Paschke GermanyGermany Germany 11.27 s
3 Odiah Sidibé FranceFrance France 11.40 s
4th Mary Tombiri-Shirey NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.50 s
5 Hermin Joseph DominicaDominica Dominica 11.56 s
6th Cleide Amaral BrazilBrazil Brazil 11.76 s
7th Myriam Mani CameroonCameroon Cameroon 11.76 s
8th Elvira Cabbarova AzerbaijanAzerbaijan 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
1 Merlene Ottey JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 11.13 s
2 Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka 11.18 s
3 Ekaterini Thanou GreeceGreece Greece 11.35 s
4th Irina Pucha UkraineUkraine Ukraine 11.36 s
5 Heather Samuel Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda 11.44 s
6th Yan Jiankui China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 11.46 s
7th Mirtha Brock ColombiaColombia Colombia 11.83 s
8th Sortelina Pires Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome and Principe 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
1 Juliet Cuthbert JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 11.06 s
2 D'Andre Hill United StatesUnited States United States 11.11 s
3 Silke Lichtenhagen GermanyGermany Germany 11.30 s
4th Eldece Clarke BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.33 s
5 Petya Pendareva BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 11.59 s
6th Cydonie Mothersille Cayman Islands 1958Cayman Islands Cayman Islands 11.61 s
7th Michelle Baptiste Saint Lucia 1979St. Lucia St. Lucia 11.92 s
8th Natalie Martindale Saint Vincent GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the Grenadines 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
1 Marina Trandenkowa RussiaRussia Russia 11.20 s
2 Chioma Ajunwa NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.25 s
3 Myra Mayberry Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Puerto Rico 11.51 s
4th Stephanie Douglas United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.61 s
5 Zandra Borrero ColombiaColombia Colombia 11.62 s
6th Jerneja Perc SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 11.63 s
7th Beverly McDonald JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 12.08 s
8th Isménia do Frederico Cape VerdeCape Verde Cape Verde 13.03 s

Forward 6

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Gwen Torrence United StatesUnited States United States 11.11 s
2 Natalia Voronova RussiaRussia Russia 11.22 s
3 Lucrécia Jardim PortugalPortugal Portugal 11.32 s
4th Ekaterini Koffa GreeceGreece Greece 11.33 s
5 Sanna Hernesniemi FinlandFinland Finland 11.39 s
6th Marcia Richardson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.42 s
7th Wang Huei-chen Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 11.70 s
8th Nests Geniwala'a Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands 13.74 s
9 Juliana Obiong Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 13.88 s

Forward 7

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Gail Devers United StatesUnited States United States 10.92 s
2 Mary Onyali NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.17 s
3 Andrea Philipp GermanyGermany Germany 11.32 s
4th Debbie Ferguson BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.33 s
5 Simmone Jacobs United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.39 s
6th Mireille Donders SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 11.67 s
7th Lee Yeong-suk Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 11.88 s
8th Pastora Chavez HondurasHonduras Honduras 12.10 s

Quarter finals

Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka - here at the 2007 World Championships - had to give up the race in her 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
1 Gwen Torrence United StatesUnited States United States 11.11 s
2 Marina Trandenkowa RussiaRussia Russia 11.15 s
3 Chioma Ajunwa NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.24 s
4th Odiah Sidibé FranceFrance France 11.38 s
5 Ekaterini Koffa GreeceGreece Greece 11.38 s
6th Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabé MadagascarMadagascar Madagascar 11.43 s
7th Heather Samuel Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda 11.60 s
8th Stephanie Douglas United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.75 s

Run 2

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Gail Devers United StatesUnited States United States 10.94 s
2 Mary Onyali NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.08 s
3 Debbie Ferguson BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.26 s
4th Lucrécia Jardim PortugalPortugal Portugal 11.37 s
5 Andrea Philipp GermanyGermany Germany 11.38 s
6th Irina Pucha UkraineUkraine Ukraine 11.42 s
7th Marcia Richardson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.55 s
DNF Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka

Run 3

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Juliet Cuthbert JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 11.20 s
2 Chandra Sturrup BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.21 s
3 D'Andre Hill United StatesUnited States United States 11.21 s
4th Irina Privaleova RussiaRussia Russia 11.40 s
5 Simmone Jacobs United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 11.47 s
6th Ekaterini Thanou GreeceGreece Greece 11.48 s
7th Silke Lichtenhagen GermanyGermany Germany 11.53 s
8th Mary Tombiri-Shirey NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.56 s

Run 4

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Merlene Ottey JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 11.02 s
2 Shanna Pinusevych UkraineUkraine Ukraine 11.14 s
3 Natalia Voronova RussiaRussia Russia 11.17 s
4th Melanie Paschke GermanyGermany Germany 11.18 s
5 Eldece Clarke BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.47 s
6th Sanna Hernesniemi FinlandFinland Finland 11.49 s
7th Myra Mayberry Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Puerto Rico 11.66 s
8th Zlatka Georgieva BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 11.99 s

Semifinals

Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas - here at the 2007 World Championships - was eliminated in the semifinals as seventh of her run

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
1 Merlene Ottey JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 10.93 s
2 Gwen Torrence United StatesUnited States United States 10.97 s
3 Marina Trandenkowa RussiaRussia Russia 11.07 s
4th Shanna Pinusevych UkraineUkraine Ukraine 11.14 s
5 Chioma Ajunwa NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.14 s
6th D'Andre Hill United StatesUnited States United States 11.20 s
7th Debbie Ferguson BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.28 s
8th Odiah Sidibé FranceFrance France 11.35 s

Run 2

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Gail Devers United StatesUnited States United States 11.00 s
2 Mary Onyali NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.04 s
3 Natalia Voronova RussiaRussia Russia 11.07 s
4th Chandra Sturrup BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.07 s
5 Juliet Cuthbert JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 11.07 s
6th Melanie Paschke GermanyGermany Germany 11.14 s
7th Irina Privaleova RussiaRussia Russia 11.31 s
8th Lucrécia Jardim PortugalPortugal Portugal 11.32 s

final

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Gail Devers United StatesUnited States United States 10.94 s
2 Merlene Ottey JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 10.94 s
3 Gwen Torrence United StatesUnited States United States 10.96 s
4th Chandra Sturrup BahamasBahamas Bahamas 11.00 s
5 Marina Trandenkowa RussiaRussia Russia 11.06 s
6th Natalia Voronova RussiaRussia Russia 11.10 s
7th Mary Onyali NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.13 s
8th Shanna Pinusevych UkraineUkraine 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

Video

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 793 , accessed on March 6, 2018
  2. 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  3. 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  4. 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org