1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 30 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 29, 1996 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 31, 1996 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists Ludmila Engquist ( SWE )   Brigita Bukovec ( SLO )   Patricia Girard-Léno ( FRA )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 29 and 31, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 44 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Swede Ludmila Engquist . She won ahead of the Slovenian Brigita Bukovec and the French Patricia Girard-Léno .

Kristin Patzwahl and Birgit Wolf started for Germany . Wolf was eliminated in the quarterfinals, choice of place in the semifinals.
The Swiss Julie Baumann failed in the semifinals.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992	Paraskevi Patoulidou ( Greece )	12.64 s	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Gail Devers ( USA )	12.68 s	Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994	Svetla Dimitrova ( Bulgaria )	12.72 s	Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995	Aliuska López ( Cuba )	12.68 s	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995	Oraldis Ramírez ( Cuba )	13.27 s	Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995	Carmen Bezanilla ( Chile )	13.62 s	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Sriyani Kulawansa ( Sri Lanka )	13.29 s	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Glory Alozie ( Nigeria )	13.62 s	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994	Janiene Ashbridge ( New Zealand )	14.06 s	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	12.21 s	Jordanka Donkowa ( Bulgaria )	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
Olympic record	12.38 s		Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 30, 1988

Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).

Preliminary round

July 29, 1996, from 9:45 a.m.

The athletes competed in a total of six preliminary runs. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.86
2	Cheryl Dickey	United States	12.92
3	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.06
4th	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	13.09
5	Birgit Wolf	Germany	13.16
6th	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	13.24
7th	Jacqueline Agyepong	Great Britain	13.24
8th	Chan Sau Ying	Hong Kong	13.63

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.76
2	Patricia Girard-Léno	France	12.84
3	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	12.90
4th	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.92
5	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.30
6th	Vida Nsiah	Ghana	13.34
7th	Lesley Tashlin	Canada	13.61

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.66
2	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.88
3	María José Mardomingo	Spain	12.91
4th	Monique Tourret	France	13.12
5	Lena Solli-Reimann	Norway	13.13
6th	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Ukraine	13.16
7th	Sonia Paquette	Canada	13.29

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.86
2	Angie Thorp	Great Britain	12.93
3	Lynda Goode	United States	12.97
4th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	12.98
5	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	13.01
6th	Cécile Cinélu	France	13.05
7th	Vũ Bích Hường	Vietnam	13.85
8th	Aminata Camara	Mali	14.94

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.72
2	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.81
3	Taiwo Aladefa	Nigeria	13.06
4th	Lidija Jurkova	Belarus	13.20
5	Nadja Bodrowa	Ukraine	13.22
6th	Rachel Rogers	Fiji	14.07
DNF	Elisabeta Anghel	Romania

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.73
2	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	12.85
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.95
4th	Ime Akpan	Nigeria	13.11
5	Olena Ovcharova	Ukraine	13.23
6th	Véronique Linster	Luxembourg	13.47
DNF	Carla Tuzzi	Italy

Quarter finals

July 29, 1996, from 5:45 p.m.

From the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.66
2	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.76
3	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.77
4th	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.84
5	Angela Atede	Nigeria	12.85
6th	Cécile Cinélu	France	13.06
7th	Lidija Jorkowa	Belarus	13.07
DNF	Nadj Bodrova	Ukraine

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.47
2	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.67
3	Patricia Girard-Léno	France	12.72
4th	Lynda Goode	United States	12.78
5	Gillian Russell	Jamaica	12.78
6th	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	13.01
7th	Ime Akpan	Nigeria	13.02
8th	Olena Ovcharova	Ukraine	13.16

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.57
2	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	12.68
3	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	12.90
4th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	12.91
5	Sriyani Kulawansa	Sri Lanka	12.91
6th	Cheryl Dickey	United States	12.92
7th	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Ukraine	12.96
8th	Keturah Anderson	Canada	13.17

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.83
2	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.98
3	Angie Thorp	Great Britain	12.99
4th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.05
5	Birgit Wolf	Germany	13.08
6th	Taiwo Aladefa	Nigeria	13.11
7th	Monique Tourret	France	13.17
8th	Lena Solli-Reimann	Norway	13.30

Semifinals

July 31, 1996, from 5:45 p.m.

From each of the two semi-finals, the first four runners (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

Start of the first semi-final (from left to right):
Nicole Ramalalanirina, Lynda Goode, Natalija Schechodanowa, Brigita Bukovec, Michelle Freeman, Julie Baumann, Kristin Patzwahl, Angie Thorp

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.61
2	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.63
3	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	12.67
4th	Lynda Goode	United States	12.77
5	Angie Thorp	Great Britain	12.80
6th	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	12.90
7th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	Madagascar	13.01
8th	Kristin Patzwahl	Germany	13.05

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.51
2	Patricia Girard-Léno	France	12.59
3	Gail Devers	United States	12.62
4th	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.64
5	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.70
6th	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.74
7th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	12.89
DNF	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	12.58
2	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.59
3	Patricia Girard-Léno	France	12.65
4th	Gail Devers	United States	12.66
5	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	12.74
6th	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.76
7th	Lynda Goode	United States	13.11
DOP	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	12.80

July 31, 1996, 8:55 pm

In the final, two US athletes and two Jamaicans each faced a starter from France, Russia, Sweden and Slovenia.

The winner of the 100-meter run , the American Gail Devers, also reigning world champion , was considered the best hurdle sprinter. Challenger was mainly the Swede Ludmila Engquist, a born Russian, who under the name Ludmila Naroschilenko already in 1988 for the Soviet Union and in 1992 took part for the unified team in the Olympic Games. In a row, other athletes with medal ambitions were eliminated before the final. For the Russian Vice European Champion and World Cup third Julija Graudyn it was the end of the semifinals, as well as for the World Cup fifth Julie Baumann from Switzerland. Graudyns compatriot Tatjana Reschetnikowa , WM -Vierte, even the sails had to cancel after the quarter-finals.

Devers had the best start in the final, but on the sixth hurdle she lost her footing and was overtaken by the Slovenian Brigita Bukovec and Engquist. Ludmila Engquist passed the Slovenian at the last hurdle and crossed the finish line as Olympic champion with a hundredth of a second ahead. Behind silver medalist Brigita Bukovec, French rider Patricia Girard-Léno took third place. Devers finished fourth, a hundredth of a second behind the bronze medalist. The two Jamaicans Dionne Rose and Michelle Freeman finished fifth and sixth in that order.

After evaluating the doping samples, Russian Natalija Shekhodanova, who came in seventh, was disqualified. The anabolic steroid stanozolol was detected in their sample .

Ludmila Engquist won the first medal for Sweden in the 100 meter hurdles .

Brigita Bukovec was the first Slovenian medalist in this discipline.

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. 47

Web links

• SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed March 8, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 83, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018

Video

• Women's 100m Hurdles Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 8, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on March 8, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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. 83, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018 
3. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on March 8, 2018