Women's 100 metres hurdles
at the 2022 World Championships
VenueHayward Field
Dates23 July (heats)
24 July (semi-finals & final)
Competitors43 from 28 nations
Winning time12.06
Medalists
gold medal    Nigeria
silver medal    Jamaica
bronze medal    Puerto Rico

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.

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 1/100th 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]

Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date
World record  Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.20 London, Great Britain 22 July 2016
Championship record  Sally Pearson (AUS) 12.28 Daegu, South Korea 3 September 2011
World Leading  Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.34 Eugene, United States 25 June 2022
African Record  Tobi Amusan (NGR) 12.41 Paris, France 18 June 2022
Asian Record  Olga Shishigina (KAZ) 12.44 Luzern, Switzerland 27 June 1995
North, Central American and Caribbean record  Kendra Harrison (USA) 12.20 London, Great Britain 22 July 2016
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) 12.28 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:

Date Time Round
23 July11:20Heats
24 July17:05Semi-finals
24 July19:00Final

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
13Tobi Amusan Nigeria (NGR)12.40Q, AR
25Alia Armstrong United States (USA)12.48Q
32Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Puerto Rico (PUR)12.52Q
41Britany Anderson Jamaica (JAM)12.59Q
56Kendra Harrison United States (USA)12.60Q
66Cindy Sember Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)12.67Q
72Devynne Charlton Bahamas (BAH)12.69Q
84Pia Skrzyszowska Poland (POL)12.70Q
95Megan Tapper Jamaica (JAM)12.73Q
104Nadine Visser Netherlands (NED)12.76Q
116Michelle Jenneke Australia (AUS)12.84Q, SB
123Danielle Williams Jamaica (JAM)12.87Q
135Marione Fourie South Africa (RSA)12.94Q
141Michelle Harrison Canada (CAN)12.95Q
155Mako Fukube Japan (JPN)12.96q
163Sarah Lavin Ireland (IRL)12.99Q
172Noemi Zbären Switzerland (SUI)13.00Q
183Celeste Mucci Australia (AUS)13.01q
195Laëticia Bapté France (FRA)13.03q
201Mette Graversgaard Denmark (DEN)13.04Q
216Reetta Hurske Finland (FIN)13.09q
226Masumi Aoki Japan (JPN)13.12q
233Ditaji Kambundji Switzerland (SUI)13.12q
246Yoveinny Mota Venezuela (VEN)13.12
253Ebony Morrison Liberia (LBR)13.12
264Andrea Vargas Costa Rica (CRC)13.12Q
274Paola Vazquez Puerto Rico (PUR)13.13
282Cyréna Samba-Mayela France (FRA)13.15
296Elisa Di Lazzaro Italy (ITA)13.16
301Greisys Roble Cuba (CUB)13.24
312Klaudia Siciarz Poland (POL)13.27
324Helena Jiranová Czech Republic (CZE)13.37
332Zoë Sedney Netherlands (NED)13.38
343Sidonie Fiadanantsoa Madagascar (MAD)13.57
351Naomi Akakpo Togo (TOG)13.64
367Anne Zagré Belgium (BEL)14.05
372Ketiley Batista Brazil (BRA)14.22
5Mulern Jean Haiti (HAI)DNF
1Nia Ali United States (USA)DQ
4Liz Clay Australia (AUS)DQ
4Alaysha Johnson 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
11Tobi Amusan Nigeria (NGR)12.12Q, WR
21Kendra Harrison United States (USA)12.27Q, SB
33Britany Anderson Jamaica (JAM)12.31Q, NR
43Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Puerto Rico (PUR)12.32Q, SB
51Danielle Williams Jamaica (JAM)12.41q, SB
62Alia Armstrong United States (USA)12.43Q, PB
72Devynne Charlton Bahamas (BAH)12.46Q, NR
81Cindy Sember Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)12.50q, NR
92Megan Tapper Jamaica (JAM)12.52PB
102Pia Skrzyszowska Poland (POL)12.62=PB
111Michelle Jenneke Australia (AUS)12.66 (.656)PB
123Nadine Visser Netherlands (NED)12.66 (.659)SB
131Ditaji Kambundji Switzerland (SUI)12.70PB
143Michelle Harrison Canada (CAN)12.74PB
151Andrea Vargas Costa Rica (CRC)12.82 (.812)SB
161Mako Fukube Japan (JPN)12.82 (.820)NR
173Sarah Lavin Ireland (IRL)12.87
183Laëticia Bapté France (FRA)12.93 (.926)
192Marione Fourie South Africa (RSA)12.93 (.927)=PB
203Noemi Zbären Switzerland (SUI)12.94SB
212Masumi Aoki Japan (JPN)13.04
222Mette Graversgaard Denmark (DEN)13.05
233Reetta Hurske Finland (FIN)13.15
242Celeste Mucci 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)Tobi Amusan Nigeria (NGR)12.06w
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Britany Anderson Jamaica (JAM)12.23.224
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Puerto Rico (PUR)12.23.229
4Alia Armstrong United States (USA)12.31
5Cindy Sember Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)12.38
6Danielle Williams Jamaica (JAM)12.44
7Devynne Charlton Bahamas (BAH)12.53
Kendra Harrison 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
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