2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 22, 2004 (preliminary round) August 23, 2004 (semi-finals) August 24, 2004 (final)
Medalists Joanna Hayes ( USA )   Olena Krassowska ( UKR )   Melissa Morrison ( USA )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 22, 23 and 24, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.

The American Joanna Hayes became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Ukrainian Olena Krassowska and the American Melissa Morrison .

Kirsten Bolm , Nadine Hentschke and Juliane Sprenger competed for Germany . Hentschke and Sprenger were eliminated in the preliminary round, Bolm could not finish their semi-final race. Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Olga Schischigina ( Kazakhstan )	12.65 s	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Perdita Felicien ( Canada )	12.53 s	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Glory Alozie ( Spain )	12.73 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Brigitte Foster ( Jamaica )	12.67 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Delloreen Ennis-London ( Jamaica )	11.32 s	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Gilvaneide Parrela ( Jamaica )	12.70 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Su Yiping ( People's Republic of China )	13.09 s	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Rosa Rakotozafy ( Madagascar )	13.73 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Rachel Rogers ( Fiji )	15.39 s	Christchurch 2002

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 based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six 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 22, 2004, 7:35 p.m.

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.76
2	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.77
3	Nadine Faustin-Parker	Haiti	12.94
4th	Aliuska López	Spain	13.21
5	Anay Tejeda	Cuba	13.24
6th	Juliane Sprenger	Germany	13.28
7th	Irina Lenskiy	Israel	13.75
8th	Celine Laporte	Seychelles	13.92

Forward 2

The Swede Jenny Kallur was eliminated as fifth in her preliminary run

August 22, 2004, 7:42 pm

Wind: −0.9 m / s

Glory Alozie won the silver medal for her home country Nigeria in Sydney in 2000 . Alozie had already moved to Spain in 1997, received Spanish citizenship in July 2001 and started working for Spain from then on.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica	12.83
2	Glory alozie	Spain	12.92
3	Angela Whyte	Canada	13.01
4th	Linda Ferga-Khodadin	France	13.02
5	Jenny Kallur	Sweden	13.11
6th	Nadine Hentschke	Germany	13.36
7th	Rosa rakotozafy	Madagascar	13.67
8th	Trecia Roberts	Thailand	13.80

Forward 3

August 22, 2004, 7:49 pm

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Maria Koroteeva	Russia	12.72
2	Perdita Felicien	Canada	12.73
3	Lacena Golding-Clarke	Jamaica	12.86
4th	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.89
5	Flora Redoumi	Greece	13.14
6th	Maíla Machado	Brazil	13.35
7th	Su Yiping	People's Republic of China	13.53

Forward 4

The Canadian Priscilla Lopes-Schliep failed in the preliminary run as sixth of her race

The Irish Derval O'Rourke was eighth of her lead and was eliminated

August 22, 2004, 7:56 p.m.

Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Joanna Hayes	United States	12.71
2	Natalia Russakova	Russia	12.90
3	Aurelia Trywiańska	Poland	13.01
4th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	13.07
5	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	13.08
6th	Sarah Claxton	Great Britain	13.14
7th	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	13.46
8th	Maria-Joëlle Conjungo	Central African Republic	14.24

Forward 5

August 22, 2004, 8:03 pm

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	12.81
2	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	12.82
3	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	12.84
4th	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	12.85
5	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	13.51
DNF	Gail Devers	United States
DNS	Svetla Pishtikova	Bulgaria

Semifinals

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

Run 1

August 23, 2004, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Perdita Felicien	Canada	12.49
2	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.53
3	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	12.58
4th	Maria Koroteeva	Russia	12.60
5	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.60
6th	Glory alozie	Spain	12.62
7th	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.67
8th	Nadine Faustin-Parker	Haiti	12.74	NO

Run 2

August 23, 2004, 7:08 pm

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Joanna Hayes	United States	12.48
2	Irina Shevchenko	Russia	12.67
3	Lacena Golding-Clarke	Jamaica	12.69
4th	Angela Whyte	Canada	12.69
5	Natalia Russakova	Russia	12.76
6th	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	12.81
DNF	Kirsten Bolm	Germany
DNS	Brigitte Foster	Jamaica

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  The Jamaican Delloreen Ennis-London was eliminated as fifth in her race in the semifinals

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  The Swede Susanna Kallur finished seventh in her semi-finals and was eliminated

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  With a new national record, Nadine Faustin-Parker from Haiti was eliminated in eighth place in her semi-final race

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  The German Kirsten Bolm did not finish in the semifinals and therefore also not in the final

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Joanna Hayes	United States	12.37	OR
2	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	12.45
3	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.56
4th	Maria Koroteeva	Russia	12.72
5	Lacena Golding-Clarke	Jamaica	12.73
6th	Angela Whyte	Canada	12.81
DNF	Perdita Felicien	Canada
	Irina Shevchenko	Russia

August 24, 2004, 10:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

Two Canadians, two Russians and two Americans as well as one starter each from Jamaica and the Ukraine qualified for the final.

The Canadian world champion Perdita Felicien was considered the favorite . But with Vice World Champion Brigitte Foster from Jamaica, the fourth place in the World Cup now starting for Spain and European Champion Glory Alozie - who was still a silver medalist for Nigeria at the 2000 Olympic Games - there was strong competition. The American Gail Devers, who was very successful in the past, was also there again. But of the favorites mentioned, only Felicien made it to the final. So she was all the more the main contender for the Olympic victory.

In the final race, only six of the eight hurdlers who started reached the finish. Right at the first hurdle, the Canadian world champion got out of step after a really good start and left her track. Due to her stumbling, she also brought down the Russian Irina Shevchenko, who was running next to her, so that both were eliminated. A protest by the Russian team and the request to repeat the race was not accepted.

The outcome of this competition was completely open. Up until halfway through the course, the athletes Joanna Hayes from the USA, the Ukrainian Olena Krassowska, the US athlete Melissa Morrison and Lacena Golding-Clarke from Jamaica were on the same level. But then Joanna Hayes prevailed as the clear Olympic champion and even set a new Olympic record with 12.37 seconds . In second place, eight hundredths of a second behind, Olena Krassowska crossed the finish line. Melissa Morrison won bronze for the second year in a row. The Russian Marija Korotejewa was fourth ahead of Lacena Golding-Clarke and the Canadian Angela Whyte. There were less than five tenths of a second between first and sixth place.

The Ukrainian Olena Krassowska was the first medalist in this discipline for her country.

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  The Canadian Angela Whyte was sixth in the Olympics

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  Perdita Felicien from Canada did not finish in the final

Web links

• SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed May 10, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 10, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 10, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Women's 100m Hurdles , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 10, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on May 10, 2018