Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles


The women's 100 metres hurdles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6–7 August.
The semi-finals showed all the top athletes were at their best, with the first 5 finalists achieving their personal best, except Sally Pearson who improved the 2012 world leading time, and Nevin Yanıt's new national record for Turkey.
In the final under London rains, Pearson led from the start but after ticking a hurdle, defending champion Dawn Harper closed fast to make it close. Kellie Wells was solidly in third while Lolo Jones edged Yanit for fourth place. It was an Olympic record for Pearson, a new personal best for Harper and Wells, equal national record for Yanit in 5th, equal personal best for 6th place Phylicia George and a season best for Jones after a difficult journey from the next to last hurdle four years earlier.

Competition format

The women's 100m Hurdles competition consisted of heats, Semifinals and a Final. The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals. A total of eight competitors qualified for the Final from the Semifinals.

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record12.21Stara Zagora, Bulgaria20 August 1988
Olympic record12.37Athens, Greece24 August 2004
2012 World leading12.40Paris, France6 July 2012

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:
DateEventAthleteTimeNotes
7 AugustFinal12.35OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time.
DateTimeRound
Monday, 6 August 201210:05Round 1
Tuesday, 7 August 201219:15
21:15
Semifinals
Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat plus the 6 fastest times qualified.

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Alina Talay12.71Q, PB
2Jessica Zelinka12.75Q
3Tiffany Porter12.79Q
4Anne Zagré13.04q
5Marina Tomić13.10
6Rosvitha Okou13.62SB
7Ayako Kimura13.75
Rahamatou DrameDQ

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Beate Schrott13.09Q
2Eline Berings13.46Q
3Ivanique Kemp13.51Q
4Seun Adigun13.56
5Anastassiya Pilipenko13.77
6Lecabela Quaresma14.56SB
Jessica EnnisDNS
Latoya GreavesDNS

Heat 3

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Kellie Wells12.69Q
2Tatyana Dektyareva12.87Q
3Lucie Škrobáková13.01Q, SB
4Cindy Roleder13.06q
5Shermaine Williams13.07q
6Lina Florez13.17
7Natalya Ivoninskaya13.48
8Marthe Koala13.91PB

Heat 4

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
DSQNevin Yanıt12.70Q, Doping
1Dawn Harper12.75Q
DSQYekaterina Galitskaya12.89Q
3Derval O'Rourke12.91q, SB
4Nikkita Holder12.93q
5Brigitte Merlano13.21SB
6Jung Hye-Lim13.48
7Jeimy Bernárdez14.36

Heat 5

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Sally Pearson12.57Q
2Reïna-Flor Okori13.01Q
3Carolin Nytra13.30Q
4Anastasiya Soprunova13.40
5Sonata Tamošaitytė13.59
6Lavonne Idlette13.60
7Dipna Lim Prasad14.68SB
8Silvia Panguana14.68PB
Ekaterina PoplavskayaDQ

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Lolo Jones12.68Q, SB
2Phylicia George12.83Q
3Marzia Caravelli13.01Q
DSQYuliya Kondakova13.10q
5Sun Yawei13.26
6Noemi Zbären13.33
7Brigitte Foster-Hylton13.98
8Odile Ahouanwanou14.76NR
9Bibiana Olama16.18SB

Semi-finals

Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat plus the 2 fastest times qualified.

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Dawn Harper12.46Q, PB
2Beate Schrott12.83Q
3Shermaine Williams12.83
4Alina Talay12.84
DSQYekaterina Galitskaya12.90
6Nikkita Holder12.93
7Carolin Nytra13.31
Reïna-Flor OkoriDQ

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Sally Pearson12.39Q, SB
2Jessica Zelinka12.66Q
3Lolo Jones12.71q
4Tiffany Porter12.79
5Derval O'Rourke12.91=SB
DSQYuliya Kondakova13.13
7Eline Berings13.26
8Ivanique Kemp13.56

Heat 3

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
1Kellie Wells12.51Q, SB
DSQNevin Yanıt12.58Q, NR, Doping
2Phylicia George12.65q, PB
3Tatyana Dektyareva12.75SB
4Lucie Škrobáková12.81SB
5Anne Zagré12.94
6Cindy Roleder13.02
Marzia CaravelliDQ

Wind: −0.2 m/s
RankLanesAthleteNationTimeNotes
7Sally Pearson12.35OR
4Dawn Harper12.37PB
5Kellie Wells12.48PB
42Lolo Jones12.58SB
DSQ6Nevin Yanıt12.58=NR, Doping
53Phylicia George12.65=PB
68Jessica Zelinka12.69
79Beate Schrott13.07