2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	5 August (heats) 6 August (semifinal & final)
Competitors	47 from 30 nations
Winning time	10.85
Medalists
Tori Bowie    United States   Marie-Josée Ta Lou    Ivory Coast   Dafne Schippers    Netherlands
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Official Video

The women's 100 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 5−6 August. ^[1]

Summary

Going into the competition, Elaine Thompson could be nothing but the hot favourite to win the title. She was the Olympic Champion from Rio and the world leader by a huge margin. Defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did not compete as she expected her first child. Returning silver medallist Dafne Schippers did not seem to be in her best shape, while the bronze medallist from 2015, Tori Bowie was expected to be among the medal contenders.

In the first semi-final, Marie-Josée Ta Lou won by 0.11 seconds over Dafne Schippers. Elaine Thompson proved why she was the favourite, winning her semi-final in 10.84 seconds, the fastest time of the day, ahead of Rosângela Santos who broke the South American continental record, while Bowie ran 10.91 seconds to win the third semi-final.

In the final, Ta Lou established an early lead. Thompson had the slowest reaction to the gun and failed to get into contention. Bowie, who had been closing on the leader, leaned early for her dip at the line, winning and then stumbling to the track. Returning silver medallist Dafne Schippers took bronze. ^[2]

Bowie's injury at the end of the race caused her to drop out of the 200 metres. ^[3]

Records

Records before the competition: ^[4]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	16 Jul 1988	Indianapolis, United States
Championship	10.70	Marion Jones	USA	28 Aug 1999	Seville, Spain
World leading	10.71	Elaine Thompson	JAM	23 Jun 2017	Kingston, Jamaica
African	10.78	Murielle Ahouré	CIV	11 Jun 2016	Montverde, United States
Asian	10.79	Li Xuemei	CHN	18 Oct 1997	Shanghai, China
NACAC	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	16 Jul 1988	Indianapolis, United States
South American	10.99	Ángela Tenorio	ECU	22 Jul 2015	Toronto, Canada
European	10.73	Christine Arron	FRA	19 Aug 1998	Budapest, Hungary
Oceanian	11.11	Melissa Breen	AUS	9 Feb 2014	Canberra, Australia

Records set at the competition: ^[5]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
South American	10.91	Rosângela Santos	BRA	6 Aug 2017
Brazilian
Cook Islands	12.18	Patricia Taea	COK	5 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard for automatic qualification was 11.26 s. ^[6]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was: ^[7]

Date	Time	Round
5 August	11:45	Heats
6 August	19:10	Semifinals
6 August	21:50	Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 5 August in six heats: ^[8]

Heat	1	2	3	4	5	6
Start time	11:44	11:53	12:03	12:09	12:20	12:30
Wind (m/s)	+1.3	+0.8	−0.3	0.0	−0.1	+0.6
Photo finish	link	link	link	link	link	link

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next six fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The consolidated results were: ^[9]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Gina Lückenkemper	Germany  (GER)	10.95	Q, PB
2	4	7	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	11.00	Q
3	1	8	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	11.04	Q
4	5	9	Rosângela Santos	Brazil  (BRA)	11.04	Q, PB
5	2	2	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.05	Q
6	3	4	Tori Bowie	United States  (USA)	11.05	Q
7	4	2	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands  (NED)	11.08	Q
8	1	5	Jura Levy	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.09	Q
9	5	2	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.14	Q
10	5	7	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.14	Q
11	2	5	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada  (CAN)	11.14	Q, PB
12	1	2	Asha Philip	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.14	q, SB
13	6	9	Daryll Neita	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.15	Q
14	6	4	Deajah Stevens	United States  (USA)	11.17	Q
15	6	3	Natasha Morrison	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.21	Q
16	6	5	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.21	q
17	3	8	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria  (NGR)	11.22	Q
18	6	6	Ewa Swoboda	Poland  (POL)	11.24	q, SB
19	4	9	Carina Horn	South Africa  (RSA)	11.28	Q
20	2	3	Ariana Washington	United States  (USA)	11.28	Q
21	5	3	Simone Facey	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.29	q
22	4	3	Salomé Kora	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.30	q
23	3	9	Ivet Lalova-Collio	Bulgaria  (BUL)	11.31	Q
24	3	2	Desiree Henry	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.32	q
25	3	6	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador  (ECU)	11.33
26	2	6	Wei Yongli	China  (CHN)	11.37
27	1	4	Toea Wisil	Papua New Guinea  (PNG)	11.41
28	4	8	Carole Zahi	France  (FRA)	11.41
29	6	8	Andrea Purica	Venezuela  (VEN)	11.43
30	1	9	Naomi Sedney	Netherlands  (NED)	11.43
31	2	7	Khalifa St. Fort	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.44
32	3	5	Jamile Samuel	Netherlands  (NED)	11.52
33	2	4	Orphée Neola	France  (FRA)	11.58
34	4	5	Narcisa Landazuri	Ecuador  (ECU)	11.59
35	2	8	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta  (MLT)	11.82
36	5	8	Leya Buchanan	Canada  (CAN)	11.84
37	1	7	Loi Im Lan	Macau  (MAC)	12.00
38	5	6	Dutee Chand	India  (IND)	12.07
39	6	2	Cecilia Bouele	Congo  (CGO)	12.15
40	3	7	Patricia Taea	Cook Islands  (COK)	12.18	NR
41	1	6	Yelena Ryabova	Turkmenistan  (TKM)	12.27	SB
42	5	4	Gorete Semedo	São Tomé and Príncipe  (STP)	12.46	PB
43	4	6	Rechelle Meade	Anguilla  (AIA)	12.67
44	4	4	Hereiti Bernardino	French Polynesia  (PYF)	12.88
45	6	7	Zarinae Sapong	Northern Mariana Islands  (NMI)	13.29	PB
46	3	3	Marie-Charlotte Gastaud	Monaco  (MON)	13.52
	5	5	Tatjana Pinto	Germany  (GER)	DQ	R 162.7

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 6 August in three heats: ^[10]

Video on YouTube
Official Video

Heat	1	2	3
Start time	19:10	19:19	19:28
Wind (m/s)	+0.8	−0.2	+0.2
Photo finish	link	link	link

The first two in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The consolidated results were: ^[11]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.84	Q
2	1	7	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	10.87	Q, SB
3	2	6	Rosângela Santos	Brazil  (BRA)	10.91	Q, AR
4	3	4	Tori Bowie	United States  (USA)	10.91	Q
5	1	6	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands  (NED)	10.98	Q
6	3	7	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	10.99	Q
7	3	9	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.04	q
8	1	2	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.07	q
9	3	5	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria  (NGR)	11.08
10	2	7	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.11
11	2	5	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada  (CAN)	11.14	PB
12	3	8	Natasha Morrison	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.15
13	1	4	Daryll Neita	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.16
14	3	6	Gina Lückenkemper	Germany  (GER)	11.16
15	1	9	Jura Levy	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.19
16	3	2	Asha Philip	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.19
17	1	3	Simone Facey	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.23
18	2	3	Desiree Henry	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.24
19	1	8	Ivet Lalova-Collio	Bulgaria  (BUL)	11.25	SB
20	2	9	Carina Horn	South Africa  (RSA)	11.26
21	2	8	Ariana Washington	United States  (USA)	11.29
22	3	3	Salomé Kora	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.31
23	1	5	Deajah Stevens	United States  (USA)	11.32
24	2	2	Ewa Swoboda	Poland  (POL)	11.35

Final

The final took place on 6 August at 21:51. The wind was +0.1 metres per second and the results were (photo finish): ^[12]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Tori Bowie	United States  (USA)	10.85	SB
	4	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	10.86	=PB
	9	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands  (NED)	10.96
4	8	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	10.98
5	6	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.98
6	3	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.01
7	5	Rosângela Santos	Brazil  (BRA)	11.06
8	2	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.09

References

External videos
Women's 100m Final: IAAF World Championships London 2017 on YouTube

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