2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles

The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 23 and 24 July 2022.[1] It was won by Tobi Amusan. Amusan set a world record of 12.12 seconds in the semi-final. She ran 12.06 to win the final, but that was not a world record because it was wind assisted.

Women's 100 metres hurdles
at the 2022 World Championships
Tobi Amusan competing against Cindy Sember and Danielle Williams in the semi-final, where she broke the world record.
VenueHayward Field
Dates23 July (heats)
24 July (semi-finals & final)
Competitors43 from 28 nations
Winning time12.06
Medalists
gold medal    Nigeria
silver medal    Jamaica
bronze medal    Puerto Rico
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2023 →

Summary edit

This was a dramatic event from the first heat to the final. In heat 1, defending champion Nia Ali was out in front early, with three to automatically qualify, Britany Anderson come up to challenge her over the last few hurdles. Ali clipped the ninth hurdle, started to lose her balance at full speed. She tried valiantly to jump over the final hurdle, but her lead leg never could get high enough, instead hooking the hurdle in the lane next to her, belonging to Anne Zagré. Ali was down on the track as the entire field ran past her.

After the disqualification, notably of Devon Allen earlier in the week, athletes commented on how they were being extra careful about their starting technique. Olympic Champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and world record holder Kendra Harrison had to battle back from slow starts to win their heats. Tobi Amusan took a hundredth off her African Record to be the fastest qualifier. In heat 4, Alaysha Johnson missed her step to the first hurdle, then pushed the second hurdle over to be disqualified. On the sixth hurdle Liz Clay tripped and rolled into the seventh hurdle. And after a protest, a seventh heat was created by disqualifying Ali for interfering with another athlete's hurdle, to allow Zagré a solo attempt to make a qualifying time. In that special heat, Zagré fell over the tenth hurdle and failed.

The first semi final saw Amusan make another improvement. With Harrison two lanes to her right, Amusan was out fast and kept pulling away. After crossing the line she looked up at the scoreboard, first happiness at winning the race, then surprise, then joy. Her time was 12.12, a new world record and the wind was legal +0.9. This distance was first introduced to major championship level in the 1972 Olympics. During the 1970's, when drug testing was less sophisticated and automatic timing was not required (until 1977), Grażyna Rabsztyn and other primarily Soviet bloc athletes took the world record from the first auto timed 12.48 down to 12.36 by 1980. Between 1986 and 1988, two Bulgarian athletes Ginka Zagorcheva and Yordanka Donkova inched the record down from 12.29 to Donkova's 12.21 which remained unchanged for almost 28 years until Harrison took 1/100th off. That too stood for another 6 years. In one day, Amusan improved the world record by 8 times the progress of 36 years and her personal best by almost a third of a second.

And the semi-finals were not over. Anderson ran 12.31 for a new national record and the #9 individual in history. Three others also set their national records and the entire top 16 set seasons bests, most of them personal bests. And the final was less than 2 hours later.

Amusan got out well in the final, but Anderson was next to her running the exact same cadence, with Alia Armstrong and Harrison inches behind. By the fourth hurdle, Amusan began to edge ahead while Harrison was going the other direction. Danielle Williams was gaining on Anderson. Within two hurdles, Amusan had daylight in front, Anderson, Armstrong, Williams and now Camacho-Quinn were dead even. Harrison hit the seventh hurdle, pushing over the eighth to be disqualified, Anderson and Camacho-Quinn separated from the lineup and Amusan was a metre and a half clear. They closed in on the line, Amusan raised her hands in victory after crossing the line, Anderson and Camacho-Quinn in a photo finish. Look at the time, 12.06 but no, the wind reading was +2.5 MPS, over the allowable so there would be no new world record. It was just the fastest time ever run. From the photo, Anderson was given silver by .005.

Records edit

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date
World record   Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.20 London, Great Britain 22 July 2016
Championship record   Sally Pearson (AUS) 12.28 Daegu, South Korea 3 September 2011
World Leading   Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.34 Eugene, United States 25 June 2022
African Record   Tobi Amusan (NGR) 12.41 Paris, France 18 June 2022
Asian Record   Olga Shishigina (KAZ) 12.44 Luzern, Switzerland 27 June 1995
North, Central American and Caribbean record   Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.20 London, Great Britain 22 July 2016
South American Record   Maurren Higa Maggi (BRA) 12.71 Manaus, Brazil 19 May 2001
European Record   Yordanka Donkova (BUL) 12.21 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 20 August 1988
Oceanian record   Sally Pearson (AUS) 12.28 Daegu, South Korea 3 September 2011

Qualification standard edit

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 12.84.[3]

Schedule edit

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date Time Round
23 July 11:20 Heats
24 July 17:05 Semi-finals
24 July 19:00 Final

Results edit

Heats edit

The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify to the semi-finals..[4]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.4 m/s, Heat 3: +1.5 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: +0.5 m/s, Heat 6: -0.4 m/s, Heat 7: -0.1 m/s

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Tobi Amusan   Nigeria (NGR) 12.40 Q, AR
2 5 Alia Armstrong   United States (USA) 12.48 Q
3 2 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn   Puerto Rico (PUR) 12.52 Q
4 1 Britany Anderson   Jamaica (JAM) 12.59 Q
5 6 Kendra Harrison   United States (USA) 12.60 Q
6 6 Cindy Sember   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 12.67 Q
7 2 Devynne Charlton   Bahamas (BAH) 12.69 Q
8 4 Pia Skrzyszowska   Poland (POL) 12.70 Q
9 5 Megan Tapper   Jamaica (JAM) 12.73 Q
10 4 Nadine Visser   Netherlands (NED) 12.76 Q
11 6 Michelle Jenneke   Australia (AUS) 12.84 Q, SB
12 3 Danielle Williams   Jamaica (JAM) 12.87 Q
13 5 Marione Fourie   South Africa (RSA) 12.94 Q
14 1 Michelle Harrison   Canada (CAN) 12.95 Q
15 5 Mako Fukube   Japan (JPN) 12.96 q
16 3 Sarah Lavin   Ireland (IRL) 12.99 Q
17 2 Noemi Zbären   Switzerland (SUI) 13.00 Q
18 3 Celeste Mucci   Australia (AUS) 13.01 q
19 5 Laëticia Bapté   France (FRA) 13.03 q
20 1 Mette Graversgaard   Denmark (DEN) 13.04 Q
21 6 Reetta Hurske   Finland (FIN) 13.09 q
22 6 Masumi Aoki   Japan (JPN) 13.12 q
23 3 Ditaji Kambundji   Switzerland (SUI) 13.12 q
24 6 Yoveinny Mota   Venezuela (VEN) 13.12
25 3 Ebony Morrison   Liberia (LBR) 13.12
26 4 Andrea Vargas   Costa Rica (CRC) 13.12 Q
27 4 Paola Vazquez   Puerto Rico (PUR) 13.13
28 2 Cyréna Samba-Mayela   France (FRA) 13.15
29 6 Elisa Di Lazzaro   Italy (ITA) 13.16
30 1 Greisys Roble   Cuba (CUB) 13.24
31 2 Klaudia Siciarz   Poland (POL) 13.27
32 4 Helena Jiranová   Czech Republic (CZE) 13.37
33 2 Zoë Sedney   Netherlands (NED) 13.38
34 3 Sidonie Fiadanantsoa   Madagascar (MAD) 13.57
35 1 Naomi Akakpo   Togo (TOG) 13.64
36 7 Anne Zagré   Belgium (BEL) 14.05
37 2 Ketiley Batista   Brazil (BRA) 14.22
5 Mulern Jean   Haiti (HAI) DNF
1 Nia Ali   United States (USA) DQ
4 Liz Clay   Australia (AUS) DQ
4 Alaysha Johnson   United States (USA) DQ

Semi-finals edit

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified to the final.[5]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.9 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Tobi Amusan   Nigeria (NGR) 12.12 Q, WR
2 1 Kendra Harrison   United States (USA) 12.27 Q, SB
3 3 Britany Anderson   Jamaica (JAM) 12.31 Q, NR
4 3 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn   Puerto Rico (PUR) 12.32 Q, SB
5 1 Danielle Williams   Jamaica (JAM) 12.41 q, SB
6 2 Alia Armstrong   United States (USA) 12.43 Q, PB
7 2 Devynne Charlton   Bahamas (BAH) 12.46 Q, NR
8 1 Cindy Sember   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 12.50 q, NR
9 2 Megan Tapper   Jamaica (JAM) 12.52 PB
10 2 Pia Skrzyszowska   Poland (POL) 12.62 =PB
11 1 Michelle Jenneke   Australia (AUS) 12.66 (.656) PB
12 3 Nadine Visser   Netherlands (NED) 12.66 (.659) SB
13 1 Ditaji Kambundji   Switzerland (SUI) 12.70 PB
14 3 Michelle Harrison   Canada (CAN) 12.74 PB
15 1 Andrea Vargas   Costa Rica (CRC) 12.82 (.812) SB
16 1 Mako Fukube   Japan (JPN) 12.82 (.820) NR
17 3 Sarah Lavin   Ireland (IRL) 12.87
18 3 Laëticia Bapté   France (FRA) 12.93 (.926)
19 2 Marione Fourie   South Africa (RSA) 12.93 (.927) =PB
20 3 Noemi Zbären   Switzerland (SUI) 12.94 SB
21 2 Masumi Aoki   Japan (JPN) 13.04
22 2 Mette Graversgaard   Denmark (DEN) 13.05
23 3 Reetta Hurske   Finland (FIN) 13.15
24 2 Celeste Mucci   Australia (AUS) DQ

Final edit

The final was started on 24 July at 19:01. The wind speed of +2.5 m/s was outside of the allowable range for the world record.[6]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Tobi Amusan   Nigeria (NGR) 12.06 w
  Britany Anderson   Jamaica (JAM) 12.23 .224
  Jasmine Camacho-Quinn   Puerto Rico (PUR) 12.23 .229
4 Alia Armstrong   United States (USA) 12.31
5 Cindy Sember   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 12.38
6 Danielle Williams   Jamaica (JAM) 12.44
7 Devynne Charlton   Bahamas (BAH) 12.53
Kendra Harrison   United States (USA) DQ

References edit

  1. ^ Timetable
  2. ^ "100 Metres Hurdles Women − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Competitions Entry Standards 2022 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022" (PDF). iaaf.org. 9 July 2022.
  4. ^ Heats Summary
  5. ^ Heats Summary
  6. ^ Final Results