2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	63 athletes from 49 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 21, 2004 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists Julija Neszjarenka ( BLR )   Lauryn Williams ( USA )   Veronica Campbell-Brown ( JAM )

The women's 100-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20 and 21, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 63 athletes took part.

The Belarusian Julija Neszjarenka became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the American Lauryn Williams and the Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown .

The German Sina Schielke was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Bettina Müller-Weissina and Karin Mayr-Krifka participated for Austria. Both failed in the quarterfinals.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	No gold medal was awarded after Marion Jones ' disqualification.		Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Torri Edwards ( USA )	10.93 s	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Ekaterini Thanou ( Greece )	11.10 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Lauryn Williams ( USA )	11.12 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Fana Ashby ( Trinidad and Tobago )	11.32 s	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Digna Luz Murillo ( Colombia )	11.35 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Lyubov Perepelova ( Uzbekistan )	11.43 s	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Endurance Ojokolo ( Nigeria )	11.33 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Makalesi Bulikiobo ( Fiji )	12.22 s	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of eight preliminary runs were completed. The first three 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

August 20, 2004, 10:50 am

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	11.20
2	Véronique Mang	France	11.24
3	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.30
4th	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	11.37
5	Liliana Allen	Mexico	11.42
6th	Geraldine Pillay	South Africa	11.44	would have been eligible to participate in the quarterfinals after Block's disqualification
7th	Titlinda Sou	Cambodia	13.47
8th	Katura Marae	Vanuatu	13.49

Forward 2

Ruqaya Al Ghasra from Bahrain did not reach the quarter-finals as fifth in their preliminary round

August 20, 2004, 10:57 a.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	10.94	NO
2	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	11.14
3	Larissa Kruglowa	Russia	11.23
4th	Gusel Chubyeva	Uzbekistan	11.31
5	Ruqaya Al Ghasra	Bahrain	11.49	NO
6th	Winneth Dube	Zimbabwe	11.56
7th	Evangeleen Ikelap	Micronesia	13.50
8th	Danah Al-Nasrallah	Kuwait	13.92	NO

Forward 3

August 20, 2004, 11:04 am

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.16
2	Irina Khabarova	Russia	11.32
3	Fana Ashby	Trinidad and Tobago	11.43
4th	Amandine Allou Affoué	Ivory Coast	11.76
5	Melisa Murillo	Colombia	11.67
6th	Elena Bobrovskaya	Kyrgyzstan	11.76
7th	Ngerak Florencio	Palau	12.76
8th	Aminata Kamissoko	Mauritania	13.49

Forward 4

August 20, 2004, 11:11 am

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julia Tabakova	Russia	11.22
2	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.27
3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.37
4th	Bettina Müller-Weissina	Austria	11.39
5	Johanna Manninen	Finland	11.45
6th	Sina Schielke	Germany	11.46
7th	Kaitinano Mwenweata	Kiribati	13.07
8th	Philaylack Sackpraseuth	Laos	13.42

Forward 5

August 20, 2004, 11:15 a.m.

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	LaTasha Colander	United States	11.31
2	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	11.36
3	Natasha Mayers	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	11.45
4th	Tetjana Tkalitsch	Ukraine	11.58
5	Basma Al-Eshosh	Jordan	12.09	NO
6th	Aleksandra Vojneska	Macedonia	12.15
7th	Li Xuemei	People's Republic of China	12.21
8th	Jenny Keni	Solomon Islands	12.76

Forward 6

August 20, 2004, 11:25 a.m.

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	11.17
2	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.27	Result subsequently revoked
3	Gail Devers	United States	11.29
4th	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	11.38
5	Agnė Eggerth	Lithuania	11.44	would have been eligible to participate in the quarterfinals after Block's disqualification
6th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	12.05
7th	Robina Muqimyar	Afghanistan	14.14	NO
8th	Fartun Abukar Omar	Somalia	14.29

Forward 7

August 20, 2004, 11:32 a.m.

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Vida Anim	Ghana	11.14	NO
2	Christine Arron	France	11.14
3	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.18
4th	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	11.40
5	Rosemar Coelho Neto	Brazil	11.43
6th	Mae Koime	Papua New Guinea	12.00	NO
7th	Hawanatu Bangura	Sierra Leone	12.11
8th	Alaa Jassim	Iraq	12.70

Forward 8

August 20, 2004, 11:39 a.m.

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.16
2	Abiodun Oyepitan	People's Republic of China	11.23
3	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	11.30
4th	Dolphins Atangana	Cameroon	11.40
5	Viktoria Koviyreva	Kazakhstan	11.62
6th	Marine Ghazaryan	Armenia	12.29
7th	Carol Mokola	Zambia	12.35

Quarter finals

The first three athletes of each run 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

Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas was eliminated in seventh of her quarterfinals

August 20, 2004, 8:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Christine Arron	France	11.10
2	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	11.18
3	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	11.28
4th	Gail Devers	United States	11.31
5	Irina Khabarova	Russia	11.32	would have been eligible to participate in the semifinals after Block's disqualification
6th	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	11.44
7th	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.46
8th	Dolphins Atangana	Cameroon	11.60

Run 2

August 20, 2004, 8:18 pm

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.03
2	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.09
3	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.16
4th	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	11.26
5	Schanna block	Ukraine	11.27	Result subsequently revoked
6th	Véronique Mang	France	11.39
7th	Bettina Müller-Weissina	Austria	11.50
8th	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	11.55

Run 3

Vida Anim from Ghana gave up in their quarter-final race and was eliminated

August 20, 2004, 8:26 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.09
2	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	11.12
3	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	11.24
4th	Larissa Kruglowa	Russia	11.36
5	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	11.39
6th	Liliana Allen	Mexico	11.52
7th	Fana Ashby	Trinidad and Tobago	11.54
DNF	Vida Anim	Ghana

Run 4

August 20, 2004, 8:34 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s Natasha Mayers from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who qualified for the quarter finals , did not take part.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	10.99
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.13
3	LaTasha Colander	United States	11.20
4th	Julia Tabakova	Russia	11.25
5	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	11.35
6th	Gusel Chubyeva	Uzbekistan	11.35
7th	Rosemar Coelho Neto	Brazil	11.45

Semifinals

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

Run 1

August 21, 2004, 8:20 pm

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	10.92	NO
2	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	10.93
3	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.04
4th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.04
5	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	11.18
6th	Christine Arron	France	11.21
7th	Gail Devers	United States	11.22
8th	Julia Tabakova	Russia	11.25

Run 2

August 21, 2004, 8:27 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

The Ukrainian Schanna Block reached the goal in 11.23 s in sixth place. In October 2011 she was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.01
2	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.03
3	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	11.13
4th	LaTasha Colander	United States	11.18
5	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	11.21
6th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.40
7th	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	11.40
DOP	Schanna block	Ukraine

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  The French Christine Arron was eliminated in the semifinals as the sixth of her run

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  Merlene Ottey - now at the start for Slovenia - reached the semi-finals again and was eliminated there in fifth of her run

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  The Ukrainian Schanna Block was subsequently convicted of the doping offense, her results from Athens were revoked.

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  The Belgian Kim Gevaert did not reach the final as sixth of her semi-final run

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	10.93
2	Lauryn Williams	United States	10.96
3	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	10.97
4th	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.00
5	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	11.05
6th	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.07
7th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.16
8th	LaTasha Colander	United States	11.18

August 21, 2004, 10:55 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

All three athletes from Jamaica and two US women qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from the Bahamas, Bulgaria and Belarus.

It was not easy to find a favorite among the finalists. The Greek Ekaterini Thanou , silver medalist from Sydney , was excluded from the games along with her teammate Konstantinos Kenteris . Both deliberately missed a doping test on July 12, 2004. The Jamaican Merlene Ottey, who is now starting for Slovenia, is by far the oldest sprinter at the age of 44 and was able to qualify for the semifinals but not the finals when she took part in the Olympic Games for the seventh time. The athletes who, like the US-American Torri Edwards , Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas, the 2011 subsequently disqualified Ukrainian Zhanna Block or the Frenchwoman Christine Arron at the last world championships had been lying in front were here in Athens either did not or had not the Form to fight for the medals again.

In the final, US athlete Lauryn Williams took the lead after the start. It was extremely tight right up to the finish line. Williams was just ahead of the Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown and the Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa. The other sprinters were slightly more behind. But on the second half of the track, Belarusian Julija Neszjarenka got better and better into the race. After about eighty meters, she passed all the athletes in front of her and became Olympic champion. Her lead over Lauryn Williams as the silver medalist was three hundredths of a second. Just another hundredth of a second back, the Veronica Campbell-Brown reached the finish line in third place ahead of Iwet Lalowa. The Bulgarian was three hundredths of a second short of the bronze medal. With Aleen Bailey and Sherone Simpson, two Jamaicans followed in fifth and sixth.

Julija Neszjarenka was Belarus' first Olympic champion in the women's 100-meter run .

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  Olympic champion Julija Neszjarenka from Belarus

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  Silver medalist Lauryn Williams, USA

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  Bronze medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica

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  The Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa finished fourth in the final

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  The Jamaican Aleen Bailey finished fifth in the Olympics

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  Sherone Simpson from Jamaica came in sixth in the final

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  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas was Olympic seventh

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  The American LaTasha Colander came in eighth in the final

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed May 6, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on May 6, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 6, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Women's 100m , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 6, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 793 , accessed on May 6, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} List of athletes currently serving a period of ineligibility as a result of an anti-doping rule violation under IAAF Rules , IAAF . November 2, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2018. 
3. ↑ Netzeitung : Kenteris and Thanou doping case closed ( memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), June 26, 2006, accessed on May 6, 2018