Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	50 athletes from 36 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 6, 2012 (preliminary round) August 7, 2012 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Sally Pearson ( AUS )   Dawn Harper ( USA )   Kellie Wells ( USA )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 6th and 7th, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. Fifty athletes participated.

The Australian Sally Pearson became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Americans Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells .

Carolin Nytra and Cindy Roleder competed for Germany. Both reached the semifinals and were eliminated there.
The Swiss Noemi Zbären failed in the preliminary round.
The Austrian Beate Schrott qualified for the final and finished seventh there.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Dawn Harper ( USA )	12.54 s	Beijing 2008
world champion	Sally Pearson ( Australia )	12.28 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Alina Talaj ( Belarus )	12.91 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Vonette Dixon ( Jamaica )	12.77 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Brigitte Merlano ( Colombia )	13.07 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Sun Yawei ( People's Republic of China )	13.04 s	Kobe 2011
African champion	Gnima Faye ( Senegal )	13.36 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Zoe Ballantyne ( New Zealand )	14.51 s	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Jordanka Donkowa ( Bulgaria )	12.21 s	Stara Zagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
Olympic record	Joanna Hayes ( USA )	12.37 s	Athens Final , Greece	August 24, 2004

Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Doping and those who suffer

The Turkish Nevin Yanıt , who initially came in fifth , was convicted of doping with stanozolol and testosterone in August 2013 and banned for three years. Your results have been retroactively canceled from June 28, 2012.

In addition to the athletes, who sometimes only received their medals several years later, the ones who suffered were the runners who were denied progress in the heats and semi-finals. In the second run, the Colombian Lina Florez ran 13.17 s and would have been eligible to start in the semi-finals. In the third semifinal race, the Russian Tatyana Dektjarjowa achieved 12.75 seconds, which would have been sufficient for a final participation over the time rule.

Prelims

Six preliminary runs were carried out. The first three 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.

The Slovenian Marina Tomić in run 1 and the Russian Julija Kondakowa in run 6 achieved the same time with 13.10 s, both of which were the sixth fastest times of the lucky losers. Kondakowa was admitted to the semi-finals after the evaluation of the target photo showed that she was a thousandth of a second faster than Tomić. Kondakowa ran 13.091 s, Tomić 13.092 s.

Forward 1

August 6, 2012, 10:05 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.71
2	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.75
3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.79
4th	Anne Zagré	Belgium	13.04
5	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.10
6th	Rosvitha Okou	Ivory Coast	13.62
7th	Ayako Kimura	Japan	13.75
DSQ	Rahamatou Dramé	Mali		IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Forward 2

August 6, 2012, 10:12 am

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Beate scrap	Austria	13.09
2	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.46
3	Ivanique Kemp	Bahamas	13.51
4th	Seun Adigun	Nigeria	13.56
5	Anastassija Pilipenko	Kazakhstan	13.77
6th	Lecabela Quaresma	Sao Tome and Principe	14.56
DNS	Jessica Ennis	Great Britain
	Latoya Greaves	Jamaica

Forward 3

August 6, 2012, 10:19 am

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.69
2	Tatiana Dektjaryova	Russia	12.87
3	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	13.01
4th	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.06
5	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	13.07
6th	Lina Florez	Colombia	13.17	actually qualified for the semi-finals
7th	Natalia Ivonskaya	Kazakhstan	13.48
8th	Marthe Koala	Burkina Faso	13.91

Forward 4

August 6, 2012, 10:26 am

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dawn Harper	United States	12.75
2	Ekaterina Galitskaya	Russia	12.89
3	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.91
4th	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93
5	Brigitte Merlano	Colombia	13.21
6th	Jung Hye-lim	South Korea	13.48
7th	Jeimy Bernárdez	Honduras	14.36
DOP	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	12.70	admitted to the semifinals

Forward 5

August 6, 2012, 10:33 am

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.57
2	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	13.01
3	Carolin Nytra	Germany	13.30
4th	Anastasija Soprunova	Kazakhstan	13.40
5	Sonata Tamošaitytė	Lithuania	13.59
6th	Lavonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	13.60
7th	Dipna Lim Prasad	Singapore	14.68
8th	Silivia Panguana	Mozambique	14.68
DSQ	Ekaterina Poplavskaya	Belarus		IAAF Rule 163.6; 168.7 - leaving the track; Skipping a hurdle

Forward 6

August 6, 2012, 10:40 am

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	LoLo Jones	United States	12.68
2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.83
3	Marzia Caravelli	Italy	13.01
4th	Yulia Kondakova	Russia	13.10
5	Sun Yawei	People's Republic of China	13.26
6th	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	13.33
7th	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	13.98
8th	Odile Ahouanwanou	Benin	14.76	NO
9	Bibiana Olama	Equatorial Guinea	16.18

Semifinals

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes qualified for the final. 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.

Run 1

August 7, 2012, 7:15 p.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dawn Harper	United States	12.46
2	Beate scrap	Austria	12.83
3	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	12.83
4th	Alina Talaj	Belarus	12.84
5	Ekaterina Galitskaya	Russia	12.90
6th	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93
7th	Carolin Nytra	Germany	13.31
DSQ	Reïna-Flor Okori	France		IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Run 2

August 7, 2012, 7:23 pm

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.39
2	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.66
3	LoLo Jones	United States	12.71
4th	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.79
5	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.91
6th	Yulia Kondakova	Russia	13.13
7th	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.26
8th	Ivanique Kemp	Bahamas	13.56

Run 3

August 7, 2012, 7:31 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.51
2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.65
3	Tatiana Dektjaryova	Russia	12.75	actually qualified for the final
4th	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	12.81
5	Anne Zagré	Belgium	12.94
6th	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.02
DSQ	Marzia Caravelli	Italy		IAAF Rule 168.7 - Skipping a hurdle
DOP	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey		admitted to the finals

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  Belarusian Alina Talaj was eliminated in fourth in her semi-final run

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  The Canadian Nikkita Holder reached sixth place in her semi-final race and was eliminated

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  The German Carolin Nytra failed in the semifinals as the seventh of her run

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  Fourth place in her semi-final run was not enough for Briton Tiffany Porter to enter the final

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  The Irish Derva O'Rourke failed as sixth of her semi-final race

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  The Belgian Eline Berings was seventh in her semi-final race, which was not enough for a final

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  Fifth place was not enough for Belgian Anne Zagré to make it into the final

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  The German Cindy Roleder reached the semifinals and was eliminated in sixth of her run

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  Marzia Caravelli from Italy was disqualified after missing a hurdle in her semi-final run

final

August 7, 2012, 9:00 p.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

All three US athletes had qualified for the final. There were also two Canadians and one participant each from Australia, Austria and Turkey.

The top favorite was Australian Sally Pearson, who, as the reigning world champion, met the 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper from the USA. The US runner Kellie Wells was also rated highly.

Pearson and Wells had the best start in the final race. Harper didn't find her rhythm until the middle of the race and now passed Wells. But Pearson came out on top and won the race with a new Olympic record . Harper was only two hundredths of a second behind her in second place with exactly the same time of the previously valid Olympic record of US American Joanna Hayes from the year 2004 . Wells came in third ahead of her teammate LoLo Jones.

Sally Pearson was the first Australian Olympic champion over the 100 meter hurdles.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.35	OR
2	Dawn Harper	United States	12.37
3	Kellie Wells	United States	12.48
4th	LoLo Jones	United States	12.58
5	Phylicia George	Canada	12.65
6th	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.69
7th	Beate scrap	Austria	13.07
DOP	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey

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  Olympic Champion:
  Sally Pearson, Australia

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  Silver medal:
  Dawn Harper, USA

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  The American LoLo Jones took fourth place

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  The Canadian Jessica Zelinka was sixth in the Olympics

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  The Austrian Olympic seventh Beate Schrott

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  The doped and disqualified Turkish woman Nevin Yanıt

Web links

• SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed on September 21, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 21, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 21, 2018

Videos

• 100m Hurdles Women's Heat - Full Event- London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 6, 2012, accessed September 21, 2018
• 100m Hurdles - Women's Semi-Finals Full Replay - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 7, 2012, accessed September 21, 2018
• Sally Pearson Wins 100m Hurdles Gold - Full Replay - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 7, 2012, accessed September 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on September 21, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Press release of the CAS (English), PDF, accessed on September 21, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Message on YönHaber from July 1, 2015 (Turkish) , accessed on September 21, 2018
4. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF) , accessed on September 21, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 75; 93 (PDF) , accessed on September 21, 2018
6. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF) , accessed on September 21, 2018