2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
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These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

event at the 2001 IAAF World Championships
2001 World Championships in Athletics
The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 August and 12 August and was the first time the event had visited North America...

in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

, Canada
Canada
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Medalists

Gold   Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland is an American hurdler.In 2001 she won gold medals at the World Indoor Championships and the World Championships, the latter in a career best time of 12.42 seconds...


United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 (USA)
Silver   Gail Devers
Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers is a retired three-time Olympic champion in track and field for the US Olympic Team. Devers was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up near National City, California and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1984...


United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 (USA)
Bronze   Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina is a retired Kazakh athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, and many on regional and continental level.She was banned between 1996 and 1998 for failing a drug test.-Personal bests:...


Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 (KAZ)

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland is an American hurdler.In 2001 she won gold medals at the World Indoor Championships and the World Championships, the latter in a career best time of 12.42 seconds...

 
12.69 Q, SB
2 Gail Devers
Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers is a retired three-time Olympic champion in track and field for the US Olympic Team. Devers was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up near National City, California and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1984...

 
12.72 Q
2 Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Stefanova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian athlete who started out competing in heptathlon, and later specialized as a sprint hurdler....

 
12.74 Q, SB
3 Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

 
12.74 Q, PB
1 Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina is a retired Kazakh athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, and many on regional and continental level.She was banned between 1996 and 1998 for failing a drug test.-Personal bests:...

 
12.75 Q
3 Bridgette Foster  12.79 Q
4 Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles....

 
12.80 Q
1 Irina Korotya  12.87 Q
3 Donica Merriman  12.88 Q
10 4 Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdler.-Early life:Felicien carries her mother's maiden name, whose origins are in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia...

 
12.89 Q
11 2 Linda Ferga  12.91 Q
12 1 Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina is a French athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She changed nationality from her native Madagascar in 1998....

 
12.94 q, SB
12 2 Dionne Rose-Henley  12.91 q, SB
14 2 Svetlana Laukhova  13.00 q
15 4 Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon is a Jamaican hurdler.She finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and finished ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris...

 
13.03 Q
16 4 Patricia Girard  13.11 q
17 3 Kirsten Bolm
Kirsten Bolm
Kirsten Bolm is a German hurdler.Her personal best is 12.59 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in the Crystal Palace Grand Prix at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre....

 
13.13
18 1 Nadine Faustin  13.15
19 3 Maurren Maggi
Maurren Maggi
Maurren Higa Maggi is a Brazilian athlete and Olympic gold medallist. She is the South American record holder at 100 metres hurdles and at long jump, with 12.71 seconds and 7.26 metres respectively. She also has 14.53 metres in the triple jump...

 
13.16
20 4 Irina Lenskiy
Irina Lenskiy
-Personal life:She was a Ukrainian citizen, known as Irina Lenskaya, until 1999 when she emigrated to Israel. She also held the surname Omelchenko for a period....

 
13.20
21 3 Sriyani Kulawansa-Fonseca  13.23 SB
22 1 Rosa Rakotozafy
Rosa Rakotozafy
Lalanirina Rosa Rakotozafy is a retired Malagasy athlete who specialized in the 100 metres hurdles.Her personal best time is 12.84 seconds, achieved in July 1999 in Niort. This is the current Malagasy record...

 
13.24
23 2 Trecia Roberts
Trecia Roberts
Trecia Roberts is a Thai hurdler.She competed for the United States up to and including the 1999 indoor season, but represented Thailand at the 1999 World Championships....

 
13.27
24 2 Svetlana Gnedzdilov  13.28
25 1 Olena Krasovska
Olena Krasovska
Olena Krasovska, née Ovcharova is a Ukrainian hurdler best known for winning a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games with a personal best time of 12.45 seconds.-Career:...

 
13.30
26 4 Feng Yun
Feng Yun (athlete)
Feng Yun is a female Chinese hurdler.Her personal best time is 12.85 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 1999 World Championships in Seville.-Achievements:-References:...

 
13.35
27 3 Angela Whyte
Angela Whyte
Angela Whyte is a Canadian hurdler in track and field athletic competition.-Achievements:-External links:* at Canadian Olympic Committee*...

 
13.38
28 4 Gergana Stoyanova  13.48
29 3 Natalya Shekhodanova  13.84
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Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
2 Gail Devers
Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers is a retired three-time Olympic champion in track and field for the US Olympic Team. Devers was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up near National City, California and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1984...

 
12.56 Q, WL
1 Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Stefanova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian athlete who started out competing in heptathlon, and later specialized as a sprint hurdler....

 
12.65 Q, SB
1 Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles....

 
12.67 Q, PB
2 Linda Ferga  12.67 Q, PB
2 Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina is a retired Kazakh athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, and many on regional and continental level.She was banned between 1996 and 1998 for failing a drug test.-Personal bests:...

 
12.75 Q
2 Dionne Rose-Henley  12.77 Q, SB
2 Bridgette Foster  12.78
1 Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland is an American hurdler.In 2001 she won gold medals at the World Indoor Championships and the World Championships, the latter in a career best time of 12.42 seconds...

 
12.80 Q
1 Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon is a Jamaican hurdler.She finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and finished ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris...

 
12.87 Q
10 2 Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

 
12.85
11 1 Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdler.-Early life:Felicien carries her mother's maiden name, whose origins are in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia...

 
12.90
12 1 Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina is a French athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She changed nationality from her native Madagascar in 1998....

 
12.91 SB
13 1 Irina Korotya  13.02
14 1 Patricia Girard  13.17
15 2 Donica Merriman  17.17
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Final

Wind: 2 m/s
Rank Lane Name Nationality React Time Notes
1 Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland
Anjanette Kirkland is an American hurdler.In 2001 she won gold medals at the World Indoor Championships and the World Championships, the latter in a career best time of 12.42 seconds...

 
0.123 12.42 WL
6 Gail Devers
Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers is a retired three-time Olympic champion in track and field for the US Olympic Team. Devers was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up near National City, California and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1984...

 
0.136 12.54 SB
8 Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina is a retired Kazakh athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, and many on regional and continental level.She was banned between 1996 and 1998 for failing a drug test.-Personal bests:...

 
0.137 12.58 SB
4 3 Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Dimitrova
Svetla Stefanova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian athlete who started out competing in heptathlon, and later specialized as a sprint hurdler....

 
0.153 12.58 SB
5 4 Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams
Jenny Adams is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles....

 
0.148 12.63 PB
6 2 Dionne Rose-Henley  0.131 12.79
7 5 Linda Ferga  0.196 12.80
8 7 Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon is a Jamaican hurdler.She finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and finished ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris...

0.140 13.02
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