2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles

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Women's 100 metres hurdles
at the 2022 World Championships
Tobi Amusan at 2022 World Athletics Championships.png
Tobi Amusan competing against Cindy Sember and Danielle Williams in the semi-final, where she broke the world record.
Venue Hayward Field
Dates23 July (heats)
24 July (semi-finals & final)
Competitors43 from 28 nations
Winning time12.06
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
  2019
2023  

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.

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Summary

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 1/100 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

Before the competition records were as follows: [2]

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

Qualification standard

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

Schedule

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

DateTimeRound
23 July11:20 Heats
24 July17:05 Semi-finals
24 July19:00 Final

Results

Heats

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

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
13 Tobi Amusan Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR)12.40Q, AR
25 Alia Armstrong Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)12.48Q
32 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico  (PUR)12.52Q
41 Britany Anderson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.59Q
56 Kendra Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)12.60Q
66 Cindy Sember Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)12.67Q
72 Devynne Charlton Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)12.69Q
84 Pia Skrzyszowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)12.70Q
95 Megan Tapper Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.73Q
104 Nadine Visser Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)12.76Q
116 Michelle Jenneke Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)12.84Q, SB
123 Danielle Williams Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.87Q
135 Marione Fourie Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa  (RSA)12.94Q
141 Michelle Harrison Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)12.95Q
155 Mako Fukube Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)12.96q
163 Sarah Lavin Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland  (IRL)12.99Q
172 Noemi Zbären Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)13.00Q
183 Celeste Mucci Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)13.01q
195 Laëticia Bapté Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)13.03q
201 Mette Graversgaard Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark  (DEN)13.04Q
216 Reetta Hurske Flag of Finland.svg  Finland  (FIN)13.09q
226 Masumi Aoki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)13.12q
233 Ditaji Kambundji Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)13.12q
246 Yoveinny Mota Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela  (VEN)13.12
253 Ebony Morrison Flag of Liberia.svg  Liberia  (LBR)13.12
264 Andrea Vargas Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica  (CRC)13.12Q
274 Paola Vazquez Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico  (PUR)13.13
282 Cyréna Samba-Mayela Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)13.15
296 Elisa Di Lazzaro Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)13.16
301 Greisys Roble Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba  (CUB)13.24
312 Klaudia Siciarz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)13.27
324 Helena Jiranová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic  (CZE)13.37
332 Zoë Sedney Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)13.38
343 Sidonie Fiadanantsoa Flag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar  (MAD)13.57
351 Naomi Akakpo Flag of Togo.svg  Togo  (TOG)13.64
367 Anne Zagré Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium  (BEL)14.05
372 Ketiley Batista Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)14.22
5 Mulern Jean Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti  (HAI) DNF
1 Nia Ali Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA) DQ
4 Liz Clay Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS) DQ
4 Alaysha Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA) DQ

Semi-finals

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

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11 Tobi Amusan Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR)12.12Q, WR
21 Kendra Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)12.27Q, SB
33 Britany Anderson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.31Q, NR
43 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico  (PUR)12.32Q, SB
51 Danielle Williams Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.41q, SB
62 Alia Armstrong Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)12.43Q, PB
72 Devynne Charlton Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)12.46Q, NR
81 Cindy Sember Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)12.50q, NR
92 Megan Tapper Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.52 PB
102 Pia Skrzyszowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)12.62=PB
111 Michelle Jenneke Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)12.66 (.656) PB
123 Nadine Visser Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)12.66 (.659) SB
131 Ditaji Kambundji Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)12.70 PB
143 Michelle Harrison Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)12.74 PB
151 Andrea Vargas Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica  (CRC)12.82 (.812) SB
161 Mako Fukube Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)12.82 (.820) NR
173 Sarah Lavin Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland  (IRL)12.87
183 Laëticia Bapté Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)12.93 (.926)
192 Marione Fourie Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa  (RSA)12.93 (.927)=PB
203 Noemi Zbären Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)12.94 SB
212 Masumi Aoki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)13.04
222 Mette Graversgaard Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark  (DEN)13.05
233 Reetta Hurske Flag of Finland.svg  Finland  (FIN)13.15
242 Celeste Mucci Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS) DQ

Final

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]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Tobi Amusan Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR)12.06 w
Silver medal icon.svg Britany Anderson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.23.224
Bronze medal icon.svg Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico  (PUR)12.23.229
4 Alia Armstrong Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)12.31
5 Cindy Sember Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)12.38
6 Danielle Williams Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM)12.44
7 Devynne Charlton Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)12.53
Kendra Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA) DQ

References

  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