Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	17 August 2008 (heats) 18 August 2008 (semi-finals) 19 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	40 from 31 nations
Winning time	12.54 s
Medalists
Dawn Harper   United States   Sally McLellan   Australia   Priscilla Lopes-Schliep   Canada

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 17–19 August at the Beijing National Stadium.^[1]

The qualifying standards were 12.96 s (A standard) and 13.11 s (B standard).^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.21	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria	20 August 1988
Olympic record	Joanna Hayes (USA)	12.37	Athens, Greece	24 August 2004

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Round 1

Qualifying rule: first two of each heat (Q) plus the six fastest times (q) qualified.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	1	Josephine Onyia	Spain	12.68	Q
2	1	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.68	Q
3	2	Vonette Dixon	Jamaica	12.69	Q, SB
3	5	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	12.69	Q
5	4	LoLo Jones	United States	12.71	Q
6	5	Dawn Harper	United States	12.73	Q
7	2	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	12.75	Q
8	3	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	12.82	Q
9	3	Sally McLellan	Australia	12.83	Q
10	4	Anay Tejeda	Cuba	12.84	Q
11	2	Damu Cherry	United States	12.91	q
12	1	Nevin Yanit	Turkey	12.94	q
13	2	Carolin Nytra	Germany	12.95	q
14	3	Sarah Claxton	Great Britain	12.97	q
15	4	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	12.98	q
15	1	Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch	Poland	12.98	q
17	5	Anastassiya Pilipenko	Kazakhstan	12.99
18	5	Aleesha Barber	Trinidad and Tobago	13.01	NR
19	4	Christina Vukicevic	Norway	13.05	PB
20	4	Tatyana Dektyareva	Russia	13.05
21	5	Yevgeniya Snihur	Ukraine	13.06
22	3	Yuliya Kondakova	Russia	13.07
23	3	Angela Whyte	Canada	13.11
24	1	Micol Cattaneo	Italy	13.13
25	2	Aleksandra Antonova	Russia	13.18
25	1	Lucie Škrobáková	Czech Republic	13.18
27	4	Natalya Ivoninskaya	Kazakhstan	13.20
28	2	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	13.22
29	5	Nadine Faustin-Parker	Haiti	13.25
30	4	Toyin Augustus	Nigeria	13.34
31	1	Katsiaryna Paplauskaya	Belarus	13.39
32	3	Yenima Arencibia	Cuba	13.43
33	2	Maíla Machado	Brazil	13.45
34	5	Dedeh Erawati	Indonesia	13.49	NR
35	3	Flóra Redoúmi	Greece	13.56
36	3	Edit Vári	Hungary	13.59
37	1	Miriam Bobková	Slovakia	13.65
38	2	Fadwa Al Bouza	Syria	14.24	SB
39	4	Jeimy Bernardez	Honduras	14.29
	5	Fatmata Fofanah	Guinea	DNF

Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 in each heat and the next fastest advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	1	LoLo Jones	United States	0.172	12.43	Q, PB
2	2	Damu Cherry	United States	0.189	12.62	Q
3	2	Dawn Harper	United States	0.191	12.66	Q
4	1	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	0.145	12.67	Q
5	1	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	0.159	12.68	Q
6	1	Sally McLellan	Australia	0.140	12.70	Q
7	2	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	0.162	12.76	Q
8	2	Sarah Claxton	Great Britain	0.145	12.84	Q
9	2	Vonette Dixon	Jamaica	0.237	12.86
9	1	Josephine Onyia	Spain	0.203	12.86
11	1	Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch	Poland	0.118	12.96
12	1	Carolin Nytra	Germany	0.144	12.99
13	2	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	0.153	13.05
14	1	Nevin Yanit	Turkey	0.201	13.28
	2	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	0.198	DNF
	2	Anay Tejeda	Cuba	0.156	DNF

Final

Position	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes[3]
	6	Dawn Harper	United States	0.193	12.54	PB
	3	Sally McLellan	Australia	0.138	12.64
	8	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	0.174	12.64
4	7	Damu Cherry	United States	0.239	12.65
5	5	Delloreen Ennis-London	Jamaica	0.151	12.65
6	9	Brigitte Foster-Hylton	Jamaica	0.167	12.66
7	4	LoLo Jones	United States	0.185	12.72
8	2	Sarah Claxton	Great Britain	0.163	12.94

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

References

1. "Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
2. "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
3. http://www.iaaf.org/oly08/results/eventCode=3659/racedate=08-19-2008/sex=W/discCode=100H/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det Retrieved 2008-08-19.