Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

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Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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These are the official results of the women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Despite the presence of the world record holderYordanka Donkova (who had her career peak four years earlier), Gail Devers came into this race as the favorite. Though her Olympic history shows her winning the 100 metres twice, the first time earlier in this Olympics, she primarily made her career as a hurdler. And true to form, Devers had a commanding lead in this race, until the final hurdle. Devers came up short and hit the hurdle, foot first, hard, knocking her off balance. She stumbled toward the finish line, falling on the last step. Such was her lead, she still finished fifth, .001 out of fourth place. In seemingly an instant, Voula Patoulidou became the gold medalist.

While Devers would win five world championship medals, three of them gold, in the 100 metres hurdles, this (actually her second attempt) was the marker of what proved to be the curse of the Olympics in her primary event.

Medalists

Gold	Voula Patoulidou Greece
Silver	LaVonna Martin United States
Bronze	Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	12.21	Yordanka Donkova	Stara Zagora (BUL)	August 20, 1988
Olympic Record	12.38	Yordanka Donkova	Seoul (KOR)	September 30, 1988

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Voula Patoulidou (GRE)	12.64
	LaVonna Martin (USA)	12.69
	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.70
4.	Lynda Tolbert (USA)	12.75
5.	Gail Devers (USA)	12.75
6.	Aliuska López (CUB)	12.87
7.	Natalya Kolovanova (EUN)	13.01
8.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.57

Semi finals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Lynda Tolbert (USA)	13.10
2.	Gail Devers (USA)	13.14
3.	Natalya Kolovanova (EUN)	13.15
4.	Aliuska López (CUB)	13.16
5.	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.32
6.	Gillian Russell (JAM)	13.35
7.	Zhang Yu (CHN)	13.39
8.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.44
9.	Brigitta Bukovec (SLO)	13.68

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	LaVonna Martin (USA)	12.81
2.	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.87
3.	Voula Patoulidou (GRE)	12.88
4.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.14
5.	Marina Azyabina (EUN)	13.22
6.	Gabriele Roth (GER)	13.22
7.	Dionne Rose (JAM)	13.22
8.	Cécile Cinelu (FRA)	13.24
—	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (EUN)	DNS

Quarterfinals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	LaVonna Martin (USA)	12.82
2.	Aliuska López (CUB)	13.01
3.	Gillian Russell (JAM)	13.23
4.	Marina Azyabina (EUN)	13.26
5.	Brigitta Bukovec (SLO)	13.28
6.	Zhang Yu (CHN)	13.28
7.	Katie Anderson (CAN)	13.31
8.	Sylvia Dethier (BEL)	13.32

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.84
2.	Lynda Tolbert (USA)	12.96
3.	Voula Patoulidou (GRE)	13.05
4.	Natalya Kolovanova (EUN)	13.06
5.	Cécile Cinelu (FRA)	13.07
6.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.16
7.	Dionne Rose (JAM)	13.17
8.	Liliana Nastase (ROU)	13.33

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Gail Devers (USA)	12.76
2.	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (EUN)	13.06
3.	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.17
4.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.26
5.	Gabriele Roth (GER)	13.28
6.	Zhu Yuqing (CHN)	13.31
7.	Jacqueline Agyepong (GBR)	13.36
8.	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	15.84

Heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (EUN)	13.04
2.	Liliana Nastase (ROU)	13.23
3.	Cécile Cinelu (FRA)	13.40
4.	Brigitta Bukovec (SLO)	13.45
5.	María José Mardomingo (ESP)	13.58
6.	Anu Kaljurand (EST)	13.81
7.	Eunice Barber (SLE)	15.01
—	Yasmina Kettab-Azzizi (ALG)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	12.90
2.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.11
3.	Gail Devers (USA)	13.19
4.	Natalia Kolovanova (EUN)	13.20
5.	Zhu Yuqing (CHN)	13.22
6.	Lesley-Ann Skeete (GBR)	13.42
7.	Thu Hang Nguyen-Thi (VIE)	15.16

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.96
2.	Aliuska López (CUB)	13.08
3.	Marina Azyabina (EUN)	13.10
4.	Jacqueline Agyepong (GBR)	13.25
5.	Dionne Rose (JAM)	13.29
6.	Katie Anderson (CAN)	13.33
7.	Monique Ewanjé-Épée (FRA)	13.73
8.	Louisette Renee Thobi (CMR)	14.37

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	LaVonna Martin (USA)	12.82
2.	Gillian Russell (JAM)	13.07
3.	Sylvia Dethier (BEL)	13.19
4.	Zhang Yu (CHN)	13.26
5.	Nicole Ramalalanirina (MAD)	13.40
6.	Sriyani Kulawansa (SRI)	13.55
—	Caren Jung (GER)	DSQ
—	Julie Baumann (SUI)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Lynda Tolbert (USA)	12.96
2.	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.11
3.	Gabriele Roth (GER)	13.12
4.	Voula Patoulidou (GRE)	13.14
5.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.28
6.	Kay Morley-Brown (GBR)	13.44
7.	Chan Sau Ying (HKG)	13.88
8.	Elizabeta Pavlovska (IOP)	14.26

References

Sprint hurdles at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men's 110 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

Women's 80 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968

Women's 100 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

See also: Men's 200 m hurdles 1900 • 1904

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