2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	38 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 25, 2000 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) September 27, 2000 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists Olga Schischigina ( KAZ )   Glory Alozie ( NGR )   Melissa Morrison ( USA )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 25 and 27, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 38 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Kazakh Olga Schischigina . She won ahead of the Nigerian Glory Alozie and the American Melissa Morrison .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Ludmila Engquist ( Sweden )	12.58 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Gail Devers ( USA )	12.37 s	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Svetla Dimitrova ( Bulgaria )	12.56 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Aliuska López ( Cuba )	12.76 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Gillian Russell ( Jamaica )	13.25 s	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil )	13.05 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Su Yiping ( People's Republic of China )	12.99 s	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Glory Alozie ( Nigeria )	13.09 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Laurence Upigit ( New Caledonia )	14.86 s	Adelaide 2000

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

Characters and abbreviations

Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, 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

September 25, 2000, 11:30 a.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.88
2	Linda Ferga	France	12.89
3	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.98
4th	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	13.00
5	Deborah Edwards	Australia	13.24
6th	Nadezhda Bodrova	Ukraine	13.25
7th	Manuela Bosco	Finland	13.51

Forward 2

September 25, 2000, 11:38 a.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Keturah Anderson	Canada	12.82
2	Sharon couch	United States	12.92
3	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	12.99
4th	Angela Atede	Nigeria	13.09
5	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.13
6th	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	13.15
7th	Maria-Joëlle Conjungo	Central African Republic	13.95
8th	Veronica de Paoli	Argentina	14.61

Forward 3

September 25, 2000, 11:46 a.m.

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.81
2	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.91
3	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	13.15
4th	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	13.16
5	Feng Yun	People's Republic of China	13.19
6th	Vũ Bích Hương	Vietnam	13.61
7th	Rosa rakotozafy	Madagascar	13.89
8th	Siulolo Liku	Tonga	14.58

Forward 4

The Canadian Perdita Felicien was eliminated as sixth of her prelim

Naide Gomes from São Tomé and Príncipe was eliminated as eighth of their preliminary run

September 25, 2000, 11:54 a.m.

Wind: +1.1 m / s
Nicole Ramalalanirina from France competed for Madagascar at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics .

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.84
2	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.90
3	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.97
4th	Julija Graudyn	Russia	12.98
5	Diane Allahgreen	Great Britain	13.11
6th	Perdita Felicien	Canada	13.21
7th	Anita Trump	Latvia	13.77
8th	Naide Gomes	Sao Tome and Principe	14.43

Forward 5

September 25, 2000, 12:02 p.m.

Wind: + 0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.62
2	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica	12.75
3	Sriyani Kulawansa Fonseka	Sri Lanka	13.10
4th	Patricia Girard	France	13.11
5	Nadine Faustin	Haiti	13.13
6th	Maja Shemchischena	Ukraine	13.18
7th	Hannah Cooper	Liberia	13.51

Quarter finals

In each of the three quarter-finals, the first four athletes qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

Nadine Faustin from Haiti was eliminated fifth in her quarter-finals

September 25, 2000, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.76
2	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.84
3	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.92
4th	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	12.96
5	Nadine Faustin	Haiti	13.25
6th	Patricia Girard	France	13.43
7th	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	13.52
DNF	Keturah Anderson	Canada

Run 2

September 25, 2000, 6:08 pm

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.66
2	Sharon couch	United States	12.78
3	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.79
4th	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.80
5	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	12.96
6th	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.11
7th	Sriyana Kulawansa Fonseka	Sri Lanka	13.19
DNF	Julija Graudyn	Russia

Run 3

September 25, 2000, 6:16 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gail Devers	United States	12.77
2	Linda Ferga	France	12.88
3	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica	12.88
4th	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.96
5	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	13.02
6th	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	13.04
7th	Angela Atede	Nigeria	13.11
8th	Diana Allahgreen	Great Britain	13.22

Semifinals

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

Delloreen Ennis-London (JAM)

September 27, 2000, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.77
2	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.84
3	Linda Ferga	France	12.87
4th	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.90
5	Natalia Shekhodanova	Russia	12.92
6th	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.95
7th	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	13.02
DNF	Gail Devers	United States

Run 2

September 27, 2000, 6:08 pm

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.68
2	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica	12.70
3	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.71
4th	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.90
5	Svetlana Lauchowa	Russia	12.95
6th	Sharon couch	United States	13.00
7th	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	13.15
8th	Yvonne Kanazawa	Japan	13.16

final

Olympic champion Olga Schischigina from Kazakhstan

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Olga Schischigina	Kazakhstan	12.65
2	Glory alozie	Nigeria	12.68
3	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.76
4th	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.80
5	Aliuska López	Cuba	12.83
6th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.91
7th	Linda Ferga	France	13.11
8th	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica	13.49

September 27, 2000, 8:10 p.m.

Wind: 0.0 m / s

Two French women and two Jamaicans qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Kazakhstan, Cuba, Nigeria and the USA.

The actual favorite, the reigning world champion Gail Devers from the USA, had to give up her semi-finals due to an injury. The 1997 vice world champion and reigning European champion Svetla Dimitrova from Bulgaria did not make it to the final either. Thus, the favorite role fell to the Nigerian vice world champion Glory Alozie. But she had strong competition, especially from fourth place in the World Cup, Olga Schischigina from Kazakhstan.

In the final, Alozie took the lead at the first hurdle. At the height of the fifth hurdle, she had worked a one-meter lead and almost looked like the Olympic champion. But Schischigina, who started weakly and was still in penultimate position halfway through, caught up and passed the last hurdle past Alozie. Olga Schischigina won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Kazakhstan after the country had become independent. Glory Alozie crossed the finish line in second, three hundredths of a second behind. She won the first Nigerian medal in the discipline. US athlete Melissa Morrison came in third eight hundredths of a second behind Alozie. Delloreen Ennis-London from Jamaica was fourth, ahead of Cuban Aliuska López and French Nicole Ramalalanirina.

Web links

• SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed April 12, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 12, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 12, 2018

Video

• Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Women's 100m Hurdles final , published October 90, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed April 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on April 12, 2018