2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Encyclopedia
]
The Women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
2011 World Championships in Athletics
The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held at the Daegu Stadium on 4 September.

Runners from the United States had provided the fastest times before the competition, but bad baton exchanges had seen their teams disqualified at both the 2008 Olympics and the 2009 World Championships
2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay
The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 21 and August 22.-Medalists:-Records:Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows....

. The Americans and Jamaica, the defending world relay champions, were seen as the primary contenders for the title. Ukraine and Russia (the Olympic title holder) were the next fastest entrants into the championships.

The first semi-final was won by a ragged looking Jamaican team. France followed Jamaica into the final. In third place, Brazil set the South American record and qualified for the final by time. China false started out of the event. The second semi-final was won by Trinidad and Tobago, setting their national record
Trinidad and Tobago records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Trinidad and Tobago maintained by Trinidad and Tobago's national athletics federation: National Association of Athletic Administration of Trinidad and Tobago .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:...

, with Ukraine following them into the final. Russia also qualified on time. In the third semi-final, the USA, running in lane 2 ran the world leader to qualify, along with Nigeria. In lane 3, Bahamas' Anthonique Strachan
Anthonique Strachan
Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter. She attends St. Augustine’s College in Nassau, Bahamas.Strachan won gold medals over 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Her 200 metres time of 22.70 was a new World Junior Leading and a new...

 fell as the modern version of the golden girls tried to qualify. Bahamas eventually finished while Germany was unable to complete their first handoff.

In the final, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

 put Jamaica into the lead, but Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...

 and Marshevet Myers put the United States back into contention. Considering their recent history of poor handoffs, the United States final handoff was a thing of beauty, gaining a couple of metres on Jamaica. Given the lead, Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...

 was able to hold off a closing Veronica Campbell-Brown for the win. Jamaica set their national record
Jamaican records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Jamaica maintained by its national athletics federation: Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:+ = en route to a longer distanceA = affected by altitude...

 in second. Ukraine's Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...

 in lane 8 ran down France and Trinidad and Tobago in a distant third.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
'
Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight is an American track and field athlete, who competes in the 100 and 200 metres.-Career:She attended Ridgeland High School in Ridgeland, MS and won the female Gatorade Athlete of the Year in track & field in 2006...


Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...


Marshevet Myers
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...


Shalonda Solomon
Shalonda Solomon
Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...

*
Alexandria Anderson*
'
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...


Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...


Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...


Veronica Campbell-Brown
Jura Levy
Jura Levy
Jura Levy is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres-Personal bests:-External links:...

*
'
Olesya Povh
Nataliya Pohrebnyak
Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...


Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...


Records

World record  German Democratic Republic
(Silke Gladisch-Möller, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr is a former East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twelve straight years, ranking first in six of those years...

)
41.37 Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

6 October 1985
Championship record  United States
(Chryste Gaines
Chryste Gaines
Chryste Dionne Gaines is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres....

, Marion Jones
Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA...

, Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

, 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...

)
41.47 Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

9 August 1997
World leading  United States Red
(Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

, Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...

, Marshevet Myers, Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...

)
42.28 Philadelphia, PA, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

5 August 2011
African record  Nigeria
(Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu is a former sprinter from Nigeria who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992...

, Faith Idehen
Faith Idehen
Faith Idehen is a retired female sprinter from Nigeria. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she, together with Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara Thompson and Mary Onyali, won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay.-Achievements:- References :*...

, Christy Opara-Thompson, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi
Mary Onyali-Omagbemi
Mary Onyali-Omagbemi is a Nigerian sprinter who won the bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics and in 200 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She also won the 1994 Commonwealth Games....

)
42.39 Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

7 August 1992
Asian record  Mainland China
(Lin Xiao, Yali Li, Xiaomei Liu, Xuemei Li)
42.23 Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

23 October 1997
North, Central American and Caribbean record  United States
(Chryste Gaines
Chryste Gaines
Chryste Dionne Gaines is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres....

, Marion Jones
Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA...

, Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

, 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...

)
41.47 Athens, Greece 9 August 1997
South American record  Brazil
(Lucimar Aparecida de Moura, Katia Regina Santos, Luciana dos Santos
Luciana dos Santos
Luciana Alves dos Santos is a Brazilian long jumper, triple jumper and sprinter.She was born in Ilhéus. She competed in the long jump at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999, and in both events at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but without reaching the final...

, Rosemar Maria Neto)
42.97 Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

10 July 2004
European record  German Democratic Republic
(Silke Gladisch-Möller, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr is a former East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twelve straight years, ranking first in six of those years...

)
41.37 Canberra, Australia 6 October 1985
Oceanian record  Australia
(Rachael Massey, Suzanne Broadrick, Jodi Lambert, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events.In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m...

)
42.99 Pietersburg, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

18 March 2000

Qualification standards

A time B time
44.00

Schedule

Date Time Round
4 September 2011 18:30 Heats
4 September 2011 20:35 Final

Results

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

Heats

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.
Rank Heat Nation Athletes Time Notes
1 3 Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight is an American track and field athlete, who competes in the 100 and 200 metres.-Career:She attended Ridgeland High School in Ridgeland, MS and won the female Gatorade Athlete of the Year in track & field in 2006...

, Shalonda Solomon
Shalonda Solomon
Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...

, Marshevet Myers, Alexandria Anderson 
41.94 Q, WL
2 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

, Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

, Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

, Jura Levy
Jura Levy
Jura Levy is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres-Personal bests:-External links:...

 
42.23 Q, SB
3 2 Kai Selvon, Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.-Junior:...

, Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....

, Michelle-Lee Ahye 
42.50 Q, NR
Trinidad and Tobago records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Trinidad and Tobago maintained by Trinidad and Tobago's national athletics federation: National Association of Athletic Administration of Trinidad and Tobago .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:...

4 1 Myriam Soumaré
Myriam Soumaré
Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...

, Céline Distel, Lina Jacques-Sébastien
Lina Jacques-Sébastien
Lina Jacques-Sébastien is a French sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres....

, Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...

 
42.60 Q, SB
5 2 Olesya Povh, Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...

, Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...

 
42.63 Q, SB
6 3 Gloria Asumnu, Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

, Agnes Osazuwa
Agnes Osazuwa
Agnes Osazuwa is a female track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nigeria.Osazuwa represented Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay together with Gloria Kemasuode, Oludamola Osayomi and Ene Franca Idoko she also took part in the...

, Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the...

 
42.74 Q, SB
7 2 Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...

, Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Elizabeta Savlinis, Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva is a Russian athlete.Fedoriva represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica,...

 
42.78 q, SB
8 1 Ana Cláudia Lemos Silva, Vanda Gomes, Franciela Krasucki, Rosângela Santos
Rosângela Santos
Rosângela Santos is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil....

 
42.92 q, AR
9 3 Kadene Vassell, Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers is a Dutch athlete competing in heptathlon and the 200 metres.Schippers won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships.-References:...

, Anouk Hagen, Jamile Samuel
Jamile Samuel
Jamile Samuel is a female Dutch athlete sprinter, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won three bronze medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, thus establishing herself as the third-fastest female runner under the age of 20 in the world.-Career:Jamile Samuel first...

 
43.44 NR
10 1 Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza Murillo is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Colombia....

, Maria Alejandra Idrobo, Darlenys Obregón
Darlenys Obregón
Darlenys Obregón Mulato is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the sprinting events, primarily the 200 metres in which she has a personal best of 23.09 seconds...

, Norma González 
43.53 SB
11 2 Hayley Butler, Melissa Breen, Charlotte van Veenendaal, Sally Pearson  43.79
12 1 Nao Okabe, Momoko Takahashi
Momoko Takahashi
Momoko Takahashi is a Japanese track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting events. She has represented Japan twice at the World Championships in Athletics and won relay medals at the Asian Games in both 2006 and 2010...

, Chisato Fukushima
Chisato Fukushima
Chisato Fukushima is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan. She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres....

, Saori Imai 
43.83
13 2 Tiffany Porter, Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...

, Laura Turner
Laura Turner
Laura Kate Turner is a British sprinter who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, in the 4 x 100m relay and the 100m....

, Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye is a British sprinter of Ghanaian origin.-Athletics career:Kwakye won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with teammates Jade Lucas-Read, Amy Spencer and Vernicha James. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth...

 
43.95
14 3 Clélia Reuse, Jacqueline Gasser, Ellen Sprunger, Léa Sprunger  44.04
15 3 Anna Bagdanovich
Anna Bagdanovich
Anna Bagdanovich , also transliterated as Hanna Bahdanovich, is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Belarus....

, Yuliya Balykina, Alena Neumiarzhitskaya, Hanna Liapeshka 
44.38
16 2 Eum Jeesu, Kim So-yeon, Lee Sunae, Park So-Yeun  46.14 SB
17 1 Plácida Martínez, Amparo Cotán, Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

, Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia Vila is a high jumper from Spain.With 2.01 metres indoor and 2.02 metres outdoor she holds the current Spanish records.-Achievements:-References:*-External links:...

 
46.24
18 3 Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. She was born in Nassau....

, Nivea Smith
Nivea Smith
Nivea Smith is a sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She grew up in Freeport, attended Mary Star of the Sea Primary School, and later graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic High School.-Career:...

, Anthonique Strachan
Anthonique Strachan
Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter. She attends St. Augustine’s College in Nassau, Bahamas.Strachan won gold medals over 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Her 200 metres time of 22.70 was a new World Junior Leading and a new...

, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie 
50.62
3 Yasmin Kwadwo, Anne Möllinger
Anne Möllinger
Anne Möllinger is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Germany.Möllinger represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Verena Sailer, Cathleen Tschirch and Marion Wagner...

, Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum...

, Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.31 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Mals, . She represents the sports club USC Mainz....

 
2 Anna Kiełbasińska, Marika Popowicz
Marika Popowicz
Marika Popowicz is a Polish track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting.She made her first major appearances in 2005, finishing in sixth place in the 200 metres at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and helping the Polish women's 4×100 metres relay team to a gold medal at the...

, Marta Jeschke
Marta Jeschke
Marta Jeschke is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time is 23.41 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum. She has 11.79 seconds in the 100 metres....

, Agnieszka Ligięza 
1 Wei Yongli, Liang Qiuping, Jiang Lan
Jiang Lan
Jiang Lan is a female Chinese sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.49 seconds, achieved in October 2007 in Wuhan. In the 200 metres she has a best of 23.46 seconds....

, Tao Yujia
Tao Yujia
Tao Yujia is a female Chinese sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.37 seconds, achieved in July 2011 in Nanjing....

 
FS

Final

Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes
4 Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight is an American track and field athlete, who competes in the 100 and 200 metres.-Career:She attended Ridgeland High School in Ridgeland, MS and won the female Gatorade Athlete of the Year in track & field in 2006...

, Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...

, Marshevet Myers, Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...

 
41.56 WL
6 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

, Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

, Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

, Veronica Campbell-Brown 
41.70 NR
Jamaican records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Jamaica maintained by its national athletics federation: Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:+ = en route to a longer distanceA = affected by altitude...

8 Olesya Povh, Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen
Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...

, Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy
Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...

 
42.51 SB
4 3 Kai Selvon, Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.-Junior:...

, Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....

, Michelle-Lee Ahye 
42.58
5 5 Myriam Soumaré
Myriam Soumaré
Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...

, Céline Distel, Lina Jacques-Sébastien
Lina Jacques-Sébastien
Lina Jacques-Sébastien is a French sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres....

, Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...

 
42.70
6 1 Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...

, Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Elizabeta Savlinis, Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva is a Russian athlete.Fedoriva represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica,...

42.93
7 7 Gloria Asumnu, Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

, Agnes Osazuwa
Agnes Osazuwa
Agnes Osazuwa is a female track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nigeria.Osazuwa represented Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay together with Gloria Kemasuode, Oludamola Osayomi and Ene Franca Idoko she also took part in the...

, Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the...

 
42.93
8 2 Ana Cláudia Lemos Silva, Vanda Gomes, Franciela Krasucki, Rosângela Santos
Rosângela Santos
Rosângela Santos is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil....

43.10

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK