Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	85 athletes from 66 countries
Competition phase	16./17. August 2008
Medalists
gold	Shelly-Ann Fraser ( JAM )
silver	Sherone Simpson ( JAM )
silver	Kerron Stewart ( JAM )

The women's 100-meter run at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 16 and 17, 2008 in the National Stadium. 85 athletes took part.

There was a triple success for Jamaica. Shelly-Ann Fraser became Olympic champion . Second place went to Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart . Two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion 2004	Julija Neszjarenka ( Belarus )	10.93 s	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Veronica Campbell ( Jamaica )	11.01 s	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Kim Gevaert ( Belgium )	11.06 s	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Mikele Barber ( USA )	11.02 s	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champion 2008	Chandra Sturrup ( Bahamas )	11.20 s	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007	Lucimar Aparecida de Moura ( Brazil )	11.20 s	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Susanthika Jayasinghe ( Sri Lanka )	11.16 s	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Oludamola Osayomi ( Nigeria )	11.22 s	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Iowane Dovumatua ( Papua New Guinea )	11.66 s	Saipan 2008

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

Preliminary round

There were ten preliminary runs. The first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the ten fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

August 16, 2008 , 10:50 a.m. / Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Torri Edwards	United States	11.26 s
2	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.30 s
3	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	11.64 s
4th	Inna Eftimowa	Bulgaria	11.67 s
5	Wang Jing	People's Republic of China	11.87 s
6th	Ani Khachikyan	Armenia	12.76 s
7th	Ivana Rožman	Macedonia	12.92 s
8th	Peoria Koshiba	Palau	13.18 s
9	Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi	Oman	13.90 s

Forward 2

August 16, 2008 , 10:57 a.m. / wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Christine Arron	France	11.37 s
2	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.38 s
3	Tahesia Harrigan	British Virgin Islands	11.46 s
4th	Lucimar Aparecida de Moura	Brazil	11.60 s
5	Sherry Fletcher	Grenada	11.65 s
6th	Dana Hussein Abdulrazak	Iraq	12.36 s	PB
7th	Sadaf Siddiqui	Pakistan	12.41 s
8th	Asenate Manoa	Tuvalu	14.05 s	NO

Forward 3

August 16, 2008 , 11:04 a.m. / wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Muna Lee	United States	11.33 s
2	Anita Pistone	Italy	11.43 s
3	Guzel Khubbieva	Uzbekistan	11.44 s
4th	Virgil Hodge	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.48 s
5	Natalia Rusakova	Russia	11.61 s
6th	Wan Kin Yee	Hong Kong	12.37 s
7th	Gharid Ghrouf	Palestine	13.07 s	NO
8th	Elis Lapenmal	Vanuatu	13.31 s
9	Bounkou Camara	Mauritania	13.69 s

Forward 4

August 16, 2008 , 11:11 a.m. / wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.30 s
2	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago	11.39 s
3	Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė	Lithuania	11.43 s
4th	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	11.53 s
5	Amandine Allou Affoue	Ivory Coast	11.75 s
6th	Valentina Nazarova	Turkmenistan	11.94 s
7th	Titlinda Sou	Cambodia	12.98 s	PB
8th	Fathia Ali Bouraleh	Djibouti	14.29 s

The Japanese Chisato Fukushima is eliminated as fifth in her preliminary run

Forward 5

August 16, 2008 , 11:18 a.m. / wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.33 s
2	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.40 s
3	Vũ Thị Hương	Vietnam	11.65 s
4th	Halimat Ismaila	Nigeria	11.72 s
5	Chisato Fukushima	Japan	11.74 s
6th	Sonia Williams	Antigua and Barbuda	12.04 s
7th	Cora Alicto	Guam	13.31 s	PB
8th	Robina Muqimyar	Afghanistan	14.80 s

Forward 6

August 16, 2008 , 11:25 a.m. / wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	11.35 s
2	Vida Anim	Ghana	11.47 s
3	Ruddy Zang Milama	Gabon	11.62 s
4th	Laura Turner	Great Britain	11.65 s
5	Nirinaharifidy Ramilijaona	Madagascar	12.07 s
6th	Timicka Clarke	Bahamas	12.16 s
7th	Montserrat Pujol	Andorra	12.73 s
8th	Jessica Aguilera	Nicaragua	13.15 s
9	Pauline Kwalea	Solomon Islands	13.28 s	PB

Forward 7

August 16, 2008 , 11:32 a.m. / wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.33 s
2	Montell Douglas	Great Britain	11.36 s
3	Virgen Benavides	Cuba	11.45 s
4th	Ene Franca Idoko	Nigeria	11.61 s
5	Pia Tajnikar	Slovenia	11.82 s
6th	Feta Ahamada	Comoros	11.88 s
7th	Fatou Tiyana	Gambia	12.25 s	PB
8th	Beauty Nazmun Nahar	Bangladesh	12.52 s

Forward 8

August 16, 2008 , 11:39 a.m. / wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Oludamola Osayomi	Nigeria	11.13 s
2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.17 s
3	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.22 s	PB
4th	Yomara Hinestroza	Colombia	11.39 s
5	Sasha Springer-Jones	Trinidad and Tobago	11.55 s
6th	Mae Koime	Papua New Guinea	11.68 s
7th	Hinikissia Albertine Ndikert	Chad	12.55 s
8th	Franka Magali	Republic of the Congo	12.57 s	PB

Tesdschan Naimowa from Bulgaria does not reach the next round as the fifth of her preliminary run

Forward 9

August 16, 2008 , 11:46 am / wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Yevgenia Polyakova	Russia	11.24 s
2	Jade Bailey	Barbados	11.46 s
3	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.48 s
4th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.60 s
5	Tezjan Naimova	Bulgaria	11.70 s
6th	Jutamass Thavoncharoen	Thailand	11.82 s
7th	Waseelah Saad	Yemen	13.60 s	NO
8th	Maria Ikelap	Micronesia	13.73 s
9	Philaylack Sackpaseuth	Laos	13.86 s

Forward 10

August 16, 2008 , 11:53 a.m. / wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	11.28 s
2	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.32 s	NO
3	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	11.41 s
4th	Barbara Pierre	Haiti	11.52 s
5	Natalya Murinovich	Russia	11.55 s
6th	Charlene Attard	Malta	12.20 s
7th	Michaela Kargbo	Sierra Leone	12.54 s
8th	Milena Milašević	Montenegro	12.65 s
9	Chandra Kala Thapa	Nepal	13.13 s

Quarter finals

The first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the following fastest female runner - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

For Virgil Hodge from St. Kitts and Nevis, the quarterfinals are the final destination

Run 1

August 16, 2008 , 8:35 pm / wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	11.06 s
2	Yevgenia Polyakova	Russia	11.13 s
3	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.18 s
4th	Virgil Hodge	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.45 s
5	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	11.55 s
6th	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	11.65 s
7th	Ene Franca Idoko	Nigeria	11.66 s
8th	Jade Bailey	Barbados	11.67 s

Run 2

August 16, 2008 , 8:42 pm / wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.02 s
2	Muna Lee	United States	11.08 s
3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.16 s
4th	Montell Douglas	Great Britain	11.38 s
5	Virgen Benavides	Cuba	11.40 s
6th	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago	11.42 s
7th	Natalya Murinovich	Russia	11.51 s
8th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.53 s

The French Christine Arron does not reach the next round as fourth of her quarter-finals

Run 3

August 16, 2008 , 8:49 pm / wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.21 s
2	Oludamola Osayomi	Nigeria	11.28 s
3	Vida Anim	Ghana	11.32 s
4th	Christine Arron	France	11.36 s
5	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.41 s
6th	Natalia Rusakova	Russia	11.49 s
7th	Yomara Hinestroza	Colombia	11.66 s
8th	Vũ Thị Hương	Vietnam	11.70 s

Run 4

August 16, 2008 , 8:56 pm / wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10.98 s
2	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.07 s
3	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.10 s
4th	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.14 s
5	Tahesia Harrigan	British Virgin Islands	11.36 s
6th	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	11.46 s
7th	Guzel Khubbieva	Uzbekistan	11.49 s
8th	Lucimar Aparecida de Moura	Brazil	11.67 s

Ezinne Okparaebo, who starts for Norway, is fourth in their quarter-finals

Run 5

August 16, 2008 , 9:03 p.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Torri Edwards	United States	11.31 s
2	Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė	Lithuania	11.33 s	PB
3	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.40 s
4th	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.45 s
5	Barbara Pierre	Haiti	11.56 s
6th	Anita Pistone	Italy	11.56 s
7th	Ruddy Zang Milama	Gabon	11.59 s
8th	Sasha Springer-Jones	Trinidad and Tobago	11.71 s

Semifinals

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

Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas is eliminated as fifth in her semi-final run

Run 1

August 17, 2008 , 7:45 p.m. / wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	11.00 s
2	Muna Lee	United States	11.06 s
3	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.10 s
4th	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	11.11 s
5	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	11.22 s
6th	Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė	Lithuania	11.50 s
7th	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	11.51 s
8th	Vida Anim	Ghana	11.51 s

The Belarusian Olympic champion from 2004 Julija Neszjarenka does not reach the final as fifth of her semi-final run

Run 2

August 17, 2008 , 7:53 p.m. / wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	11.05 s
2	Torri Edwards	United States	11.18 s
3	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.19 s
4th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.22 s
5	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.26 s
6th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.30 s
7th	Yevgenia Polyakova	Russia	11.38 s
8th	Oludamola Osayomi	Nigeria	11.44 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	10.78 s
2	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	10.98 s
2	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10.98 s
4th	Lauryn Williams	United States	11.03 s
5	Muna Lee	United States	11.07 s
6th	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.14 s
7th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	11.19 s
8th	Torri Edwards	United States	11.20 s

August 17, 2008 , 10:25 p.m. / wind: 0.00 m / s

In the final, three Jamaicans and three US-Americans and one sprinter each from the Bahamas and Great Britain faced each other.

There was a duel between the sprinters of Jamaica and the United States. All three athletes from both nations had reached the final. In each of the semi-finals there was a winner from Jamaica, Shelly-Ann Fraser in particular was particularly noticeable with her liveliness and ease. The reigning world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica was not in the race, she concentrated on the 200-meter run and the relay . Of the Americans, Muna Lee made the best impression in the preliminary decision, while Vice World Champion Lauryn Williams had to let two Jamaicans go first.

From the start, Fraser, the smallest runner in the field, was in the lead. She didn't give her opponents a chance in the final stages either and won this race by a clear margin. Halfway through the course, her compatriot Sherone Simpson was still just behind her, followed a little further behind by the third Jamaican Kerron Stewart, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie from the Bahamas and Williams. On the second half of the course, Simpson lost his rhythm a little, so that the runners behind came closer. In the end Shelly-Ann Fraser won in a very good 10.78 seconds. Second place and thus the silver medal had to be shared: Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart were exactly two tenths of a second behind the winner. The duel between the two nations had clearly gone to Jamaica. Lauryn Williams finished fourth, five hundredths of a second after the two silver medalists. Muna Lee was another four hundredths of a second back in fifth place, ahead of the surprisingly strong Brit Jeanette Kwakye.

Shelly-Ann Fraser won Jamaica's first gold medal in the women's 100-meter race .

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  Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser, Jamaica

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  Kerron Stewart from Jamaica, one of the two silver medalists

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  The second silver medalist Sherone Stewart, also Jamaica

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  The US Olympic champion Lauryn Williams

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  The British Jeanette Kwakye comes in sixth as the best European

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  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie becomes Olympic seventh

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  The American Torri Edwards takes eighth place in this final

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed June 19, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 19, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 19, 2018

Video

• Athletics 100m Women - Final , posted August 2172, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 19, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 19, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 19, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 19, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, 100 m women , accessed on June 19, 2018