2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	80 athletes from 56 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 12, 2016 (preliminary round / preliminary round) August 13, 2016 (semifinals / final)
Medalists Elaine Thompson ( JAM )   Tori Bowie ( USA )   Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ( JAM )

The women's 100-meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12th and 13th, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . Eighty athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Jamaican Elaine Thompson , who won ahead of the American Tori Bowie . Bronze went to the Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce .

Rebekka Haase and Tatjana Pinto started for Germany . Haase was eliminated in the preliminary round, Pinto in the semifinals.
The Swiss Mujinga Kambundji also failed in the semi-finals.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ( Jamaica )	10.75 s	London 2012
world champion		10.76 s	Beijing 2015
European champion	Dafne Schippers ( Netherlands )	10.90 s	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion	Barbara Pierre ( USA )	10.75 s	San José 2015
South America Champion	Nediam Vargas ( Venezuela )	11.45 s	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Chisato Fukushima ( Japan )	11.23 s	Wuhan 2015
African champion	Murielle Ahouré ( Ivory Coast )	10.99 s	Durban 2016
Oceania champion	Toea Wisil ( Papua New Guinea )	11.41 s	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA )	10.49 s	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 Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).

Preliminary round

Before the actual preliminary round, there were three elimination runs. The first two athletes per run qualified for the preliminary round. 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 12, 2016, 11:55 a.m.
Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Hafsatu Kamara	Sierra Leone	12.24
2	Sisilia Seavula	Fiji	12.34
3	Regine Tugade	Guam	12.52
4th	Makoura Keita	Guinea	12.66
5	Shirin Akter	Bangladesh	12.99
6th	Mariana Cress	Marshall Islands	13.20
7th	Liliana Neto	Angola	13.68
8th	Kamia Yousufi	Afghanistan	14.02	NO

Run 2

August 12, 2016, 12:02 p.m.
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sunayna Wahi	Suriname	12.09
2	Patricia Taea	Cook Islands	12.30
3	Mazoon Al-Alawi	Oman	12.30
4th	Lidiane Lopes	Cape Verde	12.38	NO
5	Phumlile Ndzinisa	Swaziland	12.49
6th	Taina Halasima	Tonga	12.80
7th	Laenly Phoutthavong	Laos	12.82
8th	Lerissa Henry	Micronesia	13.53

Run 3

August 12, 2016, 12:09 p.m.
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta	11.86
2	Marcelle Bouele Bondo	Republic of the Congo	11.98
3	Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli	Malaysia	12.12
4th	Prenam Pesse	Togo	12.38
5	Denika Kassim	Comoros	12.53
6th	Jordan Mageo	American Samoa	13.72
7th	Kariman Abuljadayel	Saudi Arabia	14.61	NO
8th	Karitaake Tewaaki	Kiribati	14.70

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in eight runs. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the semifinals. 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.

Run 1

The Portuguese Lorène Bazolo failed as fourth of her run in the preliminary round

August 12, 2016, 10:40 p.m.
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Desiree Henry	Great Britain	11.08
2	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast	11.17
3	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.30
4th	Lorène Bazolo	Portugal	11.43
5	Wei Yongli	People's Republic of China	11.48
6th	Hajar al-Khaldi	Bahrain	11.59
7th	Rima Kaschafutdinova	Kazakhstan	11.84
8th	Sisilia Seavula	Fiji	12.48

Run 2

August 12, 2016, 10:47 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	11.16
2	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	11.31
3	Khamica Bingham	Canada	11.41
4th	Flings Owusu-Agyapong	Ghana	11.43
5	Gloria Asumnu	Nigeria	11.55
6th	Evelyn Rivera	Colombia	11.59
7th	Brenessa Thompson	Guyana	11.72
8th	Hafsatu Kamara	Sierra Leone	12.22

Run 3

The Norwegian Ezinne Okparaebo did not reach the final with her fourth place

Eliecith Palacios from Colombia was eliminated as fifth in her preliminary run

August 12, 2016, 10:54 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Tori Bowie	United States	11.13
2	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	11.16
3	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador	11.35
4th	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.43
5	Eliecith Palacios	Colombia	11.48
6th	Tahesia Harrigan-Scott	British Virgin Islands	11.54
7th	Chrystyna Stuj	Ukraine	11.57
8th	Marcelle Bouele Bondo	Republic of the Congo	12.18

Run 4

August 12, 2016, 11:01 p.m.
Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	10.96
2	Marie Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	11.01
3	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	11.19
4th	Narcisa Landázuri	Ecuador	11.38
5	Tynia Gaither	Bahamas	11.56
6th	Ramona Papaioannou	Cyprus	11.61
7th	Ruddy Zang Milama	Gabon	11.67
8th	Sunayna Wahi	Suriname	12.25

Run 5

A fourth place was not enough for Kelly-Ann Baptiste from Trinidad and Tobago to make it to the semifinals

August 12, 2016, 11:08 p.m.
Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	11.23
2	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	11.24
3	Olessja Powch	Ukraine	11.39
4th	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago	11.42
5	Jennifer Madu	Nigeria	11.61
6th	Nigina Sharipova	Uzbekistan	11.68
7th	Dutee Chand	India	11.69
8th	Patricia Taea	Cook Islands	12.41

Run 6

The Polish Marika Popowicz-Drapała was eliminated in sixth place in her preliminary run

August 12, 2016, 11:15 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	11.00
2	Christania Williams	Jamaica	11.27
3	Asha Philip	Great Britain	11.34
4th	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	11.43
5	Viktoria Syabkina	Kazakhstan	11.69
6th	Marika Popowicz-Drapała	Poland	11.70
7th	Iman Essa Jasim	Bahrain	11.72
8th	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta	11.90

Run 7

The Australian Melissa Breen finished seventh in her preliminary run and was eliminated

August 12, 2016, 11:22 p.m.
Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	11.21
2	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	11.25
3	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	11.35
4th	Toea Wisil	Papua New Guinea	11.48
5	Olga Safronova	Kazakhstan	11.50
6th	Alyssa Conley	South Africa	11.57
7th	Melissa Breen	Australia	11.74
8th	Mazoon Al-Alawi	Oman	12.43

Run 8

The German Rebekka Haase was fifth in her run, which was not enough for advancement

August 12, 2016, 11:29 p.m.
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	English Gardner	United States	11.09
2	Carina Horn	South Africa	11.32
3	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	11.35
4th	Daryll Neita	Great Britain	11.41
5	Rebekka Haase	Germany	11.47
6th	Yuan Qiqi	People's Republic of China	11.56
7th	Franciela Krasucki	Brazil	11.67
8th	Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli	Malaysia	12.67

Semifinals

The semifinals consisted of three runs. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

August 13, 2016, 9:00 p.m.
Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Tori Bowie	United States	10.90
2	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	10.90
3	Christania Williams	Jamaica	10.96
4th	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast	11.01
5	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador	11.14
6th	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	11.16
7th	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	11.18
8th	Olessja Powch	Ukraine	11.29

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  Murielle Ahouré, Ivory Coast, was eliminated fourth in her semi-final run

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  Ángela Tenorio from Ecuador finished fifth in the first semi-final race and was eliminated

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  The Swiss Mujinga Kambundji did not reach the final as sixth of her semi-final run

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  The Polish Ewa Swoboda was seventh in the first semifinals not enough for advancement

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  The Ukrainian Olesja Powch failed as eighth of her run in the semi-finals

Run 2

August 13, 2016, 9:07 p.m.
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	10.88
2	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	10.90
3	Marie Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	10.94
4th	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	11.00
5	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	11.23
6th	Narcisa Landázuri	Ecuador	11.28
7th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine	11.32
8th	Asha Philip	Great Britain	11.33

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  With fourth place in her semi-final run, the American Tianna Bartoletta did not reach the final

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  The Brazilian Rosângela Santos was fifth in the second semi-final race and was eliminated

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  The Ukrainian Natalija Pohrebnjak was eliminated in seventh place in her semi-final race

Run 3

August 13, 2016, 9:14 p.m.
Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	10.88
2	English Gardner	United States	10.90
3	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	11.09
4th	Desiree Henry	Great Britain	11.09
5	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	11.20
6th	Carina Horn	South Africa	11.20
7th	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	11.32
DNS	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	11.32

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  The British Desiree Henry her fourth place in the third semifinal run was not enough for the final

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  The Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa-Collio, who actually qualified for the semi-finals, did not appear

final

August 13, 2016, 10:37 pm
All three Jamaicans and two Americans qualified for the final. There was also one starter from Ivory Coast, one from the Netherlands and one from Trinidad and Tobago.

At the major championships in recent years, there was always only one winner, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. She was successful at the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2013 and 2015 World Championships . So she was the favorite here too. But already in the semifinals it had been shown that there were strong competitors. Her compatriot Elaine Thompson was as fast as Fraser-Pryce as the winner of the third semifinals with 10.88 seconds. In the first semi-final, the Americans Tori Bowie and Michelle-Lee Ahye from Trinidad and Tobago had also achieved strong times with 10.90 seconds. The double European champion from 2014 and 2016, Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands, ran just as quickly in the second semifinal race.

Fraser-Pryce, Thompson, and Bowie came from the blocks best. Around halfway through the course, however, Thompson was clearly in front of Bowie and Fraser-Pryce. This is how it went to the finish line, whereby Fraser-Pryce and the Ivorian Marie Josée Ta Lou had to evaluate the finish photo to determine the bronze medalist. It turned out that Fraser-Pryce was just able to save third place. Schippers finished fifth ahead of Ahye. The American English Gardner came in seventh ahead of Christania Williams from Jamaica.

This final was of a high standard. The winning time of 10.71 s was absolutely top notch, the first seven of the race undercut the 11-second mark.

Elaine Thompson won Jamaica's third consecutive gold medal in the discipline.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is now the most successful sprinter over 100 meters with her bronze medal . She replaces her compatriot Merlene Ottey , who had also won three medals. In addition to the bronze medal won here, Fraser-Pryce has two Olympic victories ( 2008 and 2012 ) on her account, while Ottey won a silver medal ( 1996 ) and two bronze medals ( 1984 and 2000 ).

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	10.71
2	Tori Bowie	United States	10.83
3	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	10.86
4th	Marie Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	10.86
5	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	10.90
6th	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	10.92
7th	English Gardner	United States	10.94
8th	Christania Williams	Jamaica	11.80

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  Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson, Jamaica

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  Tori Bowie, USA, silver medal winner

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  Bronze medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from Jamaica

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  Marie Josée Ta Lou, Ivory Coast, came fourth

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  Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands came in fifth

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  Michelle-Lee Ahye from Trinidad and Tobago came in sixth

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  The American English Gardner was Olympic seventh

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 9, 2018
• Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF 100 m women (English), accessed on October 9, 2018
• Sports reference, result 100 m women (English), accessed on October 9, 2018

Video

• Rio Replay: Women's 100m Final on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 793 , accessed on October 9, 2018