Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Women's 100 metres; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
	The video display at Stade de France, showing the women's 100 meters results and an image of winner Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia
Venue	Stade de France, Paris, France
Dates	2 August 2024 (preliminary round); 2 August 2024 (round 1); 3 August 2024 (semi-finals); 3 August 2024 (final);
Competitors	91 from 73 nations
Winning time	10.72
Medalists
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Last updated July 06, 2025

The women's 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 2 and 3 August 2024. This was the twenty-third time that the women's 100 metres has been contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 40 athletes qualified for the event by entry standard or ranking. Julien Alfred won Saint Lucia's first-ever Olympic medal after taking gold in the final.

Summary

Elaine Thompson-Herah who had won the last two 100 m Olympic titles, was unable to defend her Olympic title as an achilles tendon injury forced her to withdraw from the Jamaican Olympic trials, thus not allowing her to qualify for these games;^[2] 2020 bronze medallist Shericka Jackson pulled out after suffering an injury at the Gyulai István Memorial to "protect her body" before her primary event, the 200 metres;^[3] World number two Jacious Sears was injured in the SEC Championships and was unable to compete at the US Trials.^[4]

Reigning World champion, Sha'Carri Richardson, tied with Jackson for #6 of all time, won the US Trials, and was viewed as one of the favourites for the title.^[5] 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce also returned after finishing third at the Jamaican Trials behind Jackson and teenager Tia Clayton. Meanwhile, 2017 World silver medalist and African record holder Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith, was also seen as a strong contender.^[5] World number-four Melissa Jefferson and world number-ten Twanisha Terry had both pushed themselves into medal contention by qualifying for their first Olympics through the US Trials. World Indoor 60 m champion and former double NCAA Champion Julien Alfred had ran a new personal best of 10.78 s at the Racers Grand Prix to move to third on the season top list.^[6]

In the heats, Ta Lou-Smith ran the fastest time with 10.87 s to win her heat, with Fraser-Pryce tied with Daryll Neita for the next fastest in 10.92 s. In the semi-finals, Fraser-Pryce was unable to compete due to an undisclosed injury.^[7] Alfred had the fastest qualifying time with 10.84 s to win her semi-final, with Richardson and Clayton tying for the second-fastest time with 10.89 s.^[8]

In the final, Alfred had the fastest start, reaching the 10 m mark first.^[9] Next to her, Richardson was seventh at the same point. As Alfred expanded her lead across the next 40 m, a row of chasers formed across the track; with Mujinga Kambundji being second at the 50 m mark, Neita third and Jefferson narrowly fourth. Ta Lou-Smith pulled-up injured at the 40 m mark. Richardson finished quickly and crossed the 80 m mark in second-place behind Alfred. Her training-partner, Jefferson also finished quickly and was third at the same point ahead of Neita in fourth. Alfred ran a new personal best, 10.72;^[9] a national record and the first ever Olympic gold medal for St. Lucia. Her time moved her up to tie Ta Lou for the eighth-fastest woman of all time.^[10]

Background

The women's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1928. The 100 metres is considered one of the blue ribbon events of the Olympics and is among the highest profile competitions at the games. It is the most prestigious 100 metres race at an elite level and is the shortest sprinting competition at the Olympics.

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.49^[11]	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
Olympic record	Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM)	10.61	Tokyo, Japan	31 July 2021
World leading	Sha'Carri Richardson (USA)	10.71^[12]	Eugene, United States	22 June 2024

Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics^[13]
Area record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)
Africa ( records )	Marie-Josée Ta Lou (CIV)	10.72
Asia ( records )	Li Xuemei (CHN)	10.79
Europe ( records )	Christine Arron (FRA)	10.73
North, Central America and Caribbean ( records )	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.49 WR
Oceania ( records )	Zoe Hobbs (NZL)	10.96
South America ( records )	Rosângela Santos (BRA)	10.91

Qualification

For the women's 100 metres event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.^[14] 48 athletes qualified for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 11.07 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.^[14] Additionally, universality places were given to NOCs that had not qualified athletes in any other event.

Results

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held on 2 August, starting at 10:35 (UTC+2) in the morning.^[1] Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and next 5 fastest (q) advance to round 1.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Natacha Ngoye	Republic of the Congo	11.34	Q
2	5	Alessandra Gasparelli	San Marino	11.62	Q
3	8	Xenia Hiebert	Paraguay	11.77	Q
4	3	Valentina Meredova	Turkmenistan	12.01	q, SB
5	9	Samira Awali Boubacar	Niger	12.06	PB
6	2	Silina Pha Aphay	Laos	12.45	SB
7	6	Sydney Francisco	Palau	13.15
8	7	Salam Bouha Ahamdy	Mauritania	13.71	PB
	1	Lucia Morris	South Sudan	DNF
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

^[15]

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Trần Thị Nhi Yến	Vietnam	11.81	Q
2	6	Halle Hazzard	Grenada	11.88	Q
3	4	Zhang Bo-ya	Chinese Taipei	11.99	Q
4	5	Regine Tugade-Watson	Guam	12.02	q
5	2	Lika Kharchilava	Georgia	12.37
6	9	Faiqa Riaz	Pakistan	12.49	PB
7	8	Mazoon Al-Alawi	Oman	12.58	SB
8	3	Filomenaleonisa Iakopo	American Samoa	12.78	NR
9	1	Mariam Kareem	United Arab Emirates	13.26	PB
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

^[16]

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Gorete Semedo	São Tomé and Príncipe	11.44	Q
2	6	Guadalupe Torrez	Bolivia	11.60	Q
3	2	Leonie Beu	Papua New Guinea	11.63	Q, PB
4	1	María Carmona	Nicaragua	11.88	q, NR
5	7	Safiatou Acquaviva	Guinea	11.97	q, NR
6	5	Chloe David	Vanuatu	12.44	PB
7	3	Shahd Ashraf	Qatar	12.53	PB
8	4	Alisar Youssef	Syria	12.93	PB
9	8	Kimia Yousofi	Afghanistan	13.42
				Wind: +1.1 m/s

^[17]

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Zahria Allers-Liburd	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.73	Q
2	8	Asimenye Simwaka	Malawi	11.78	Q
3	6	Mariandrée Chacón	Guatemala	11.90	Q
4	1	Georgiana Sesay	Sierra Leone	11.99	q
5	5	Naomi Akakpo	Togo	12.34	PB
6	7	Marie-Charlotte Gastaud	Monaco	12.41	PB
7	2	Sefora Ada Eto	Equatorial Guinea	13.63	PB
8	4	Temalini Manatoa	Tuvalu	14.04	PB
9	3	Sharon Firisua	Solomon Islands	14.31	PB
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

^[18]

Round 1

Round 1 was held on 2 August, starting at 11:50 (UTC+2) in the morning.^[1] Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) advance to the semi-finals.