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

Women's 100 metres hurdles; at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	6–7 August
Competitors	50 from 36 nations
Winning time	12.35 OR
Medalists
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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
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Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
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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.^[1]

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 (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final.^[2] 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.^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.21	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria	20 August 1988
Olympic record	Joanna Hayes (USA)	12.37	Athens, Greece	24 August 2004
2012 World leading	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.40	Paris, France	6 July 2012

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
7 August	Final	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.35	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 6 August 2012	10:05	Round 1
Tuesday, 7 August 2012	19:15 21:15	Semifinals Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Alina Talay	Belarus	12.71	Q, PB
2	Jessica Zelinka	Canada	12.75	Q
3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.79	Q
4	Anne Zagré	Belgium	13.04	q
5	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.10
6	Rosvitha Okou	Ivory Coast	13.62	SB
7	Ayako Kimura	Japan	13.75
N/A	Rahamatou Drame	Mali	N/A	DQ

Rahamatou Drame was disqualified for false starting.

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Beate Schrott	Austria	13.09	Q
2	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.46	Q
3	Ivanique Kemp	Bahamas	13.51	Q
4	Seun Adigun	Nigeria	13.56
5	Anastassiya Pilipenko	Kazakhstan	13.77
6	Lecabela Quaresma	São Tomé and Príncipe	14.56	SB
N/A	Jessica Ennis	Great Britain	N/A	DNS
N/A	Latoya Greaves	Jamaica	N/A	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.69	Q
2	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	12.87	Q
3	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	13.01	Q, SB
4	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.06	q
5	Shermaine Williams	Jamaica	13.07	q
6	Lina Florez	Colombia	13.17
7	Natalya Ivoninskaya	Kazakhstan	13.48
8	Marthe Koala	Burkina Faso	13.91	PB

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	12.70	Q
2	Dawn Harper	United States	12.75	Q
3	Yekaterina Galitskaya	Russia	12.89	Q
4	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.91	q, SB
5	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93	q
6	Brigitte Merlano	Colombia	13.21	SB
7	Jung Hye-Lim	South Korea	13.48
8	Jeimy Bernárdez	23x15px Honduras	14.36

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.57	Q
2	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	13.01	Q
3	Carolin Nytra	Germany	13.30	Q
4	Anastasiya Soprunova	Kazakhstan	13.40
5	Sonata Tamošaitytė	Lithuania	13.59
6	Lavonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	13.60
7	Dipna Lim Prasad	Singapore	14.68	SB
8	Silvia Panguana	Mozambique	14.68	PB
N/A	Ekaterina Poplavskaya	Belarus	N/A	DQ

Ekaterina Poplavskaya ran off the track after failing to clear her fourth hurdle, and was therefore disqualified.

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Lolo Jones	United States	12.68	Q, SB
2	Phylicia George	Canada	12.83	Q
3	Marzia Caravelli	Italy	13.01	Q
4	Yuliya Kondakova	Russia	13.10	q
5	Sun Yawei	China	13.26
6	Noemi Zbären	Switzerland	13.33
7	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	13.98
8	Odile Ahouanwanou	Benin	14.76	NR
9	Bibiana Olama	Equatorial Guinea	16.18	SB