2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	83 athletes from 60 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 22, 2000 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) September 23, 2000 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists - Ekaterini Thanou ( GRE ) Tayna Lawrence ( JAM )     Merlene Ottey ( JAM )

The women's 100-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22 and 23, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 83 athletes took part.

The American Marion Jones had won the final race. Because of doping , the IOC revoked her Olympic victory in 2007 . Since the runner-up, the Greek Ekaterini Thanou , was also suspected of doping, she was not named the new Olympic champion of 2000. The IOC rated the third-placed Tayna Lawrence from Jamaica as the second silver medalist. Her compatriot Merlene Ottey , who was initially fourth , received the bronze medal.

The Swiss Mireille Donders and the Austrian Karin Mayr failed in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Germany and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Gail Devers ( USA )	10.94 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Marion Jones ( USA )	10.70 s	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Christine Arron ( France )	10.73 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Chandra Sturrup ( Bahamas )	11.10 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Katia Benth ( French Guiana )	11.47 s	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Lucimar de Moura ( Brazil )	11.17 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Lyubov Perepelowa ( Uzbekistan )	11.31 s	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Myriam Léonie Mani ( Cameroon )	11.21 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Litiana Miller ( Fiji )	12.03 s	Adelaide 2000

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

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

Preliminary round

A total of ten preliminary runs were completed. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the two 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 22, 2000, 1:05 p.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sevatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.18
2	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	11.24
3	Valma Bass	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.45
4th	Karin Mayr	Austria	11.50
5	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.51
6th	Martha Adusei	Canada	11.82
7th	Mari Paz Mosana Motanga	Equatorial Guinea	12.91
8th	Isménia do Frederico	Cape Verde	12.99

Forward 2

September 22, 2000, 1:11 p.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Christine Arron	France	11.42
2	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	11.48
3	Sarah Reilly	Ireland	11.56
4th	Natasha Mayers	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	11.61
5	Aminata Diouf	Senegal	11.65
6th	Fana Ashby	Trinidad and Tobago	11.85
7th	Peoria Koshiba	Palau	12.66	NO
8th	Jenny Keni	Solomon Islands	13.01

Forward 3

September 22, 2000, 1:17 pm

Wind: −2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.27
2	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.36
3	Joan Ekah	Nigeria	11.60
4th	Ayanna Hutchinson	Trinidad and Tobago	11.78
5	Lerma Gabito	Philippines	12.08
6th	Vukosava Đapić	Yugoslavia	12.12
7th	Emma Wade	Belize	12.25
8th	Luz Marina Geerman	Aruba	12.96

Forward 4

September 22, 2000, 1:23 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s Regina Shotaro was the first athlete to take part in the Olympic Games for Micronesia .

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	11.15
2	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.35
3	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	11.36
4th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	11.42
5	Mireille Donders	Switzerland	11.63
6th	Heidi Hannula	Finland	11.68
7th	Lina Bejjani	Lebanon	12.98
8th	Regina Shotaro	Micronesia	13.69

Forward 5

September 22, 2000, 1:29 pm

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.10
2	Irina Pucha	Ukraine	11.41
3	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	11.50
4th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	11.62
5	Viktoria Kovyreva	Kazakhstan	11.72
6th	Devi Maya Paneru	Nepal	12.74
7th	Foujia Huda	Bangladesh	12.75
8th	Sylla M'Mah Touré	Guinea	12.82

Forward 6

September 22, 2000, 1:35 p.m.

Wind: −1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marion Jones	United States	11.20
2	Sandra Citte	France	11.47
3	Monica Twum	Ghana	11.48
4th	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	11.51
5	Shani Anderson	Great Britain	11.55
6th	Ekundayo Williams	Sierra Leone	12.19
7th	Laure Kuetay	Benin	12.40
8th	Suzanne Spiteri	Malta	12.57
9	Shamha Ahmed	Maldives	12.87

Forward 7

September 22, 2000, 1:41 pm

Wind: −1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.31
2	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	11.41
3	Natalia Ignatova	Russia	11.54
4th	Marcia Richardson	Great Britain	11.62
5	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece	11.65
6th	Joanna Hoareau	Seychelles	12.01
7th	Akonga Nsimbo	Democratic Republic of Congo	12.51	NO
8th	Tamara Schanidze	Georgia	12.56
9	Fatou Dieng	Mauritania	13.69

Forward 8

September 22, 2000, 1:47 p.m.

Wind: −0.4 m / s Mariam Al-Hilli was the first woman to take part in the Olympic Games for Bahrain .

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.10
2	Li Xuemei	People's Republic of China	11.25
3	Torri Edwards	United States	11.34
4th	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	11.38
5	Ameerah Bello	American Virgin Islands	11.64
6th	Grace-Ann Dinkins	Liberia	11.79
7th	Mariam Al Hilli	Bahrain	13.98

Forward 9

September 22, 2000, 1:53 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.24
2	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.30
3	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	11.34
4th	Natalia Voronova	Russia	11.47
5	Louise Ayétotché	Ivory Coast	11.52
6th	Irene Truice Joseph	Indonesia	11.93
7th	Chen Shu-chuan	Chinese Taipei	12.22
8th	Sarah Tondé	Burkina Faso	12.56
9	Sandjema Batouli	Comoros	13.58

Forward 10

September 22, 2000, 1:59 p.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Chryste Gaines	United States	11.06
2	Tayna Lawrence	Jamaica	11.14
3	Vida Nsiah	Ghana	11.18	NO
4th	Esi Benyarku	Canada	11.55
5	Zeng Xiujun	People's Republic of China	11.63
6th	Kadiatou Camara	Mali	11.65	NO
7th	Joanne Durant	Barbados	11.82
8th	Chan Than Ouk	Cambodia	14.13

Quarter finals

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

Run 1

The US-American Torri Edwards was eliminated as fifth in her quarter-finals

September 22, 2000, 8:15 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.08
2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.18
3	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	11.26
4th	Christine Arron	France	11.26
5	Torri Edwards	United States	11.32
6th	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.32
7th	Monica Twum	Ghana	11.70
8th	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	11.81

Run 2

September 22, 2000, 8:21 p.m.

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marion Jones	United States	10.83
2	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	10.99
3	Tayna Lawrence	Jamaica	11.11
4th	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	11.24
5	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.36
6th	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	11.51
7th	Irina Pucha	Ukraine	11.54
8th	Joan Ekah	Nigeria	11.67

Run 3

September 22, 2000, 8:27 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.08
2	Chryste Gaines	United States	11.21
3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.22
4th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.26
5	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	11.40
6th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	11.54
7th	Valma Bass	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.60
8th	Sandra Citte	France	11.63

Run 4

September 22, 2000, 8:33 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sevatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.10
2	Vida Nsiah	Ghana	11.19
3	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	11.23
4th	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	11.23
5	Li Xuemei	People's Republic of China	11.46
6th	Natalia Ignatova	Russia	11.47
7th	Sarah Reilly	Ireland	11.53
8th	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	11.59

Semifinals

The French European Champion Christine Arron was eliminated in seventh place in her semi-final run

Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka finished seventh in her semifinals and was eliminated

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

Run 1

September 23, 2000, 6:30 p.m.

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.22
2	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.31
3	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.32
4th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.34
5	Vida Nsiah	Ghana	11.37
6th	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	11.40
7th	Christine Arron	France	11.42
8th	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	11.45

Run 2

September 23, 2000, 6:37 pm

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marion Jones	United States	11.01
2	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.10
3	Tayna Lawrence	Jamaica	11.12
4th	Sevatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.16
5	Chryste Gaines	United States	11.23
6th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	11.31
7th	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	11.33
8th	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	11.56

final

The American Marion Jones was stripped of the gold medal for doping offenses

September 23, 2000, 8:05 pm

Wind: −0.4 m / s

All three athletes from the Bahamas and two Jamaicans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Greece, Ukraine and the USA.

The clear favorite was the American Marion Jones, who came to Sydney as the reigning world champion and had dominated the women's sprint scene since 1997. The contenders for the medals behind her were above all the Greek World Cup and European Championship third Ekaterini Thanou, the Ukrainian Shanna Block - formerly known under her name Shanna Pintussewitsch - as World Cup and European Championship fourth, the 1996 silver medalist Merlene Ottey from Jamaica and the French European champion and World Cup sixth Christine Arron, who was already eliminated in the semi-finals.

After a weak start, the final race was a demonstration of Jones' speed. The best started Jamaican Tayna Lawrence led up to the halfway point. But then Marion Jones stormed to the top and was way ahead at the finish. She had a lead of 37 hundredths of a second over the Greek Ekaterini Thanou. Tayna Lawrence followed six hundredths of a second behind her, ahead of Merlene Ottey, Schanna Block and the three sprinters from the Bahamas Chandra Sturrup, Sevatheda Fynes and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie. This initially official order lasted for several years, but was not final because Jones had used unfair means.

In 2007, Marion Jones , who had been suspected of doping for a long time, confessed to taking tetrahydrogestrinone (GHG). A short time later, she admitted that she had been doped during the Sydney Games. In October 2007 she returned the medals she had won in Sydney. On 23 November 2007, she was the world athletics federation IAAF banned for two years. At the same time, its results were canceled retrospectively from September 1, 2000.

The IOC decided not to pass on the vacant gold medal to the runner-up Ekaterini Thanou. Like Jones, Thanou was suspected of doping, but was given the silver medal. Tayna Lawrence and Merlene Ottey, both from Jamaica, moved up one place each. Like Thanou, Lawrence received a silver medal and Ottey a bronze medal.

Ekaterini Thanou was the first Greek medalist in this discipline.

Merlene Ottey won her eighth precious metal in her sixth participation in the Olympic Games. She had won two silver and six bronze medals, making her the most successful Olympic athlete in terms of the number of medals.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gold medal not awarded after disqualification of Marion Jones
2	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	11.12
	Tayna Lawrence	Jamaica	11.18
3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.19
4th	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.20
5	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.21
6th	Sevatheda Fynes	Bahamas	11.22
7th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.29
DOP	Marion Jones	United States	10.75

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  Bronze medalist Merlene Ottey, Jamaica

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  The Ukrainian Schanna Block took fourth place in the final

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  The Olympic Fifth Chandra Sturrup from the Bahamas

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  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas was Olympic seventh

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympics with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 58f - Publication before Marion Jones became aware of the doping rule violation

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed April 3, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 3, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 3, 2018

Videos

• Marion Jones wins Gold Medal 2000 Olympics 100 Meters , published July 17, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2018
• Marion Jones stripped of 5 Olympic medals after drug admission , published July 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2018
• Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use Prior to the 2000 Olympic Games , published October 4, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 793 , accessed on April 3, 2018
2. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online of October 5, 2007 , accessed on April 3, 2018
3. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online from November 23, 2007 , accessed on April 3, 2018