2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Sally Pearson after the finish in Daegu

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Events at the 2011 World Championships
Track events
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
Road events
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
Decathlon	men

The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 3.

Prior to the competition, Australian Sally Pearson led the season's rankings with a time of 12.48 seconds and was undefeated on the Diamond League circuit. The United States team provided the next fastest athletes that year in the form of Kellie Wells, Danielle Carruthers and the 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper. The defending champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton of Jamaica was in poor form, while the other 2009 medalists (Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and Delloreen Ennis-London) were absent. Tiffany Porter, Lisa Urech and Perdita Felicien were the only other top-ten-ranked athletes to compete.^[1]^[2]

Sally Pearson was the story here, winning her semi final in 12.36, equal to the number 5 performer in history. The time improved on her own Oceanian area record and Australian national record. Kellie Wells looked strong by opening up a large lead in her semi final, but clipped the ninth hurdle and struggled to maintain her balance as she finished in second.

In the final, it was Pearson in the lead from the gun. Running smoothly, she was not challenged, running 12.28, to make her the number 4 performer in history. Nobody had run as fast in nearly two decades.^[3] The time is a new Championship record and again improved her Oceanian area record and Australian national record. Behind her, Danielle Carruthers outleaned Dawn Harper for the silver medal, both athletes finishing in the same time. Wells hit the seventh hurdle and crashed to the ground, not finishing, joining the tradition (Gail Devers, Lolo Jones) of American favorites crashing on hurdles in major championships.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sally Pearson Australia	Danielle Carruthers United States (USA)	Dawn Harper United States (USA)

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.21	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria	20 August 1988
Championship record	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.34	Rome, Italy	4 September 1987
World Leading	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.48	Birmingham, Great Britain	10 July 2011
African Record	Glory Alozie (NGR)	12.44	Monaco	8 August 1998
			Brussels, Belgium	28 August 1998
			Seville, Spain	28 August 1999
Asian Record	Olga Shishigina (KAZ)	12.44	Luzern, Switzerland	27 June 1995
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Gail Devers (USA)	12.33	Sacramento, CA, United States	23 July 2000
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)	12.48	Birmingham, Great Britain	10 July 2011

Qualification standards

A time	B time
12.96	13.15

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 2, 2011	10:20	Heats
September 3, 2011	19:15	Semifinals
September 3, 2011	21:00	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Wind:
Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.6 m/s, Heat 3: -1.6 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s, Heat 5: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.53	Q
2	1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.73	Q
3	4	Danielle Carruthers	United States	12.79	Q
4	1	Vonette Dixon	Jamaica	12.82	Q
5	3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.84	Q
5	4	Phylicia George	Canada	12.84	Q
7	4	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	12.89	Q, SB
8	1	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.90	Q, PB
8	5	Dawn Harper	United States	12.90	Q
10	5	Perdita Felicien	Canada	12.95	Q
11	1	Natalya Ivoninskaya	Kazakhstan	12.96	Q
11	4	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	12.96	Q, SB
13	3	Lina Flórez	Colombia	12.98	Q
14	4	Cindy Roleder	Germany	13.01	q
15	5	Sun Yawei	China	13.03	Q
16	3	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	13.05	Q
17	2	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	13.07	Q
17	5	Sandra Gomis	France	13.07	Q
17	5	Indira Spence	Jamaica	13.07	Q, SB
17	1	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	13.07	q, SB
21	4	Seun Adigun	Nigeria	13.13	q, SB
22	3	Lisa Urech	Switzerland	13.16	Q
23	2	Brigitte Merlano	Colombia	13.23	Q
24	2	Beate Schrott	Austria	13.25	Q
25	1	Sonata Tamošaitytė	Lithuania	13.28
26	3	Marzia Caravelli	Italy	13.29
27	2	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.36
28	2	Lavonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	13.39
28	2	Jung Hye-lim	South Korea	13.39
30	5	Anastasiya Soprunova	Kazakhstan	13.43
31	1	Kierre Beckles	Barbados	13.44
32	4	Anne Zagré	Belgium	13.47
33	3	Cindy Billaud	France	13.50
34	3	Dedeh Erawati	Indonesia	13.56
35	4	Béatrice Kamboulé	Burkina Faso	13.76	SB
36	5	Poon Pak Yan	Hong Kong	14.04
37	1	Dipna Lim Prasad	Singapore	14.40
38	3	Jeimy Bernárdez	Honduras	14.45
N/A	5	Demetra Arachovití	Cyprus	99.99 !DNS

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s, Heat 3: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.36	Q, WL, AR
2	3	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.56	Q, NR
3	3	Danielle Carruthers	United States	12.65	Q
4	1	Phylicia George	Canada	12.73	Q, PB
5	2	Dawn Harper	United States	12.74	Q
6	2	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	12.76	q, SB
7	1	Kellie Wells	United States	12.79	Q
8	3	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.84	q, PB
9	1	Lisa Urech	Switzerland	12.86
10	3	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	12.87	SB
11	2	Perdita Felicien	Canada	12.88
12	3	Cindy Roleder	Germany	12.91	PB
13	2	Indira Spence	Jamaica	12.93	PB
14	1	Lina Flórez	Colombia	12.94	PB
15	2	Natalya Ivoninskaya	Kazakhstan	12.96
16	2	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	12.98
17	1	Vonette Dixon	Jamaica	13.00
18	3	Beate Schrott	Austria	13.02
19	2	Seun Adigun	Nigeria	13.14
20	1	Sun Yawei	China	13.19
21	3	Brigitte Merlano	Colombia	13.21
22	1	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey	13.31
23	1	Sandra Gomis	France	13.55
N/A	3	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	99.99 !DNS

Final

Wind" +1.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	3	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.28	CR, AR, WL
02 !	6	Danielle Carruthers	United States	12.47	PB
03 !	8	Dawn Harper	United States	12.47	PB
4	5	Tiffany Porter	Great Britain	12.63
5	1	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	12.82
6	2	Nikkita Holder	Canada	12.93
7	4	Phylicia George	Canada	17.97
N/A	7	Kellie Wells	United States	99.99 !DNF

References

↑ Martin, David (2011-08-23). Women's 100m Hurdles – PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-25.
↑ 100 Metres Hurdles 2011. IAAF (2011-08-20). Retrieved on 2011-08-25.
↑ http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=0/sex=W/all=y/legal=A/disc=100H/detail.html

External links

100 metre hurdles results at IAAF website

Sprint hurdles at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Complete event overview

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