The Women's 100 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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as part of the athletics program

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons , the race walks , and the shot put...

 were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 20, 2004 and August 21, 2004.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner , also known as Flo-Jo was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the "fastest woman of all time" based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged...	Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...  (USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... )	July 16, 1988
Olympic Record	10.62	Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner , also known as Flo-Jo was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the "fastest woman of all time" based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged...	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...  (KOR South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south... )	September 24, 1988

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

Q denotes automatic qualification.

q denotes fastest losers.

DNS denotes did not start.

DNF denotes did not finish.

PB denotes personal best.

NR denotes national record.

medal winners in bold

Initially there were eight heats with the first three from each heat progressing along with the eight fastest losers. In the second round the first three from each of the four heats went through to the semi-finals along with the four fastest losers. The first four in each of those semi-finals then qualified for the final.

Round 1

All heats of round one were held on Friday, August 20, 2004.

Heat 1

Heat 1 saw Bailey take first in one of the slower heats ahead of Mang who ran a personal best and Ferguson. There was also a PB for Sou of Cambodia.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.20	Q
2		11.24	Q
3		11.30	Q
4		11.37	q
5		11.42	q
6		11.44
7		13.47
8		13.49

Heat 2

Nestsiarenka, national record and fastest time of all heats, was never troubled, leading from the gun along with Khubbieva who faded towards the end and Kruglova, equalled personal best, who managed to stay on but could not hold off the 44 year old veteran Ottey who started slowly but ran down all but Nestsiarenka in the latter stages. Further down the pack were Al Gassra and Nasrallah who also ran national records and Ikelap equalling her PB.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		10.94	Q
2		11.14	Q
3		11.23	Q
4		11.31	q
5		11.49
6		11.56
7		13.50
8		13.92

Heat 3

Williams held up the start for a minute or so as she asked a track side judge to remove some litter that appeared in her lane and this may have distracted her as she was slow away but ran down the fast away Khabarova in the last twenty metres. A hard running Ashby just held off Allou for the last automatic qualifying place. Florencio managed a PB in finishing sixth but even she was a different class to the Mauritanian who was clearly out of her depth.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.16	Q
2		11.32	Q
3		11.43	Q
4		11.46
5		11.67
6		11.76
7		12.76
8		13.49

Heat 4

Manninen held up her hand on the blocks after the starter had held them for an excessively long time. When they eventually got away Sturrup, returning from injury, burst out from the blocks but lack of fitness told as she fell apart at seventy metres and only just held off Mueller. Tabakova and Simpson both went past Sturrup with the Russian powering away to take first. There was a PB for Mwemeata in lane 4.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.22	Q
2		11.27	Q
3		11.37	Q
4		11.39	q
5		11.45
6		11.46
7		13.07
8		13.42

Heat 5

Colander was impressive leading from the gun and easing up through the last five metres. Ojokolo took second away from Mayers who slowed considerably in towards the end and limped off the track clinging her right hamstring

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. Although not qualifying for the latter stages Al Eshosh ran a new Jordanian record.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.31	Q
2		11.36	Q
3		11.45	Q
4		11.58
5		12.09 NR
6		12.15
7		12.21
8		12.76

Heat 6

Former world champion

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 Block, and double Olympic champion

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, both looked past their best trailing in behin Campbell who was never behind. Yaar set an Afghan national record. The Somalian, Omar, who brought up the rear had some problems. After leaving the blocks she followed the lane markings that merge with the home straight and wandered into lane 6, fortunately Devers had left her behind so was not interfered with.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.17	Q
2		11.27	Q
3		11.29	Q
4		11.38	q
5		11.44
6		12.05
7		14.14 NR
8		14.29 PB

Heat 7

A false start by the inexperienced Koime didn't put her off as ran a national record in coming sixth. Jaasim, Iraq's only female competitor at the games, was also not disgraced in coming last. These two were a fair distance behind the business end of the race where world indoor 60 m. champion

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Gevaert, who had burst out the blocks, was run down by Anim (NR) and Arron who both recorded the same time.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.14	Q
2		11.14	Q
3		11.18	Q
4		11.40	q
5		11.43	q
6		12.00
7		12.11
8		12.70

Heat 8

Atangana shot into an early lead from the start but was tiring by fifty metres from where Lalova took control of the race. Oyepitan had a strong steady race and just held off Perepelova who finished steadily in lane eight after a poor start.

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.16	Q
2		11.23	Q
3		11.30	Q
4		11.40	q
5		11.62
6		12.29
7		12.35

Round 2

All heats of round two were held on Friday, August 20, 2004.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.10	Q
2		11.18	Q
3		11.28	Q
4		11.31	q
5		11.32
6		11.44
7		11.46
8		11.60

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.03	Q
2		11.09	Q
3		11.16	Q
4		11.26	q
5		11.27	q
6		11.39
7		11.50
8		11.55

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.09	Q
2		11.12	Q
3		11.24	Q
4		11.36
5		11.39
6		11.52
7		11.54
8		DNF

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		10.99	Q
2		11.17	Q
3		11.20	Q
4		11.25	q
5		11.35
6		11.35
7		11.45
—		DNS

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were held on Saturday, August 21, 2004.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		10.92 NR	Q
2		10.93 PB	Q
3		11.04	Q
4		11.04 SB	Q
5		11.18
6		11.21
7		11.22
8		11.25

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1		11.01	Q
2		11.03	Q
3		11.13	Q
4		11.18	Q
5		11.21
6		11.23 SB
7		11.40
8		11.40

Final

The final was held on Saturday, August 21, 2004.

Place	Athlete	Time
1		10.93
2		10.96 PB
3		10.97
4		11.00
5		11.05
6		11.07
7		11.16
8		11.18