100 metres hurdles
The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of 33 inches (83.8 cm) are placed along a straight course of 100 metres (109.36 yd). The first hurdle is placed after a run-up of 13 metres from the starting line. The next 9 hurdles are set at a distance of 8.5 metres from each other, and the home stretch from the last hurdle to the finish line is 10.5 metres long. The hurdles are set up so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner, but weighted so this is disadvantageous. Fallen hurdles do not count against runners provided that they do not run into them on purpose. Like the 100 metres sprint, the 100 m hurdles begins with athletes in starting blocks.
| Athletics 100 metres hurdles | |
|---|---|
A 100 m hurdles race at Atlanta 1996. | |
| World records | |
| Women | Tobi Amusan 12.12 (2022) |
| Olympic records | |
| Women | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 12.26 (2021) |
| World Championship records | |
| Women | Tobi Amusan 12.12 (2022) |
The fastest 100 m hurdlers run the distance in a time of around 12.5 seconds. The world record set by Tobi Amusan stands at 12.12 seconds.
History
The race started back in the 1830s in England where wooden barriers were placed along a 100-yard stretch. The hurdles event was included as part of the inaugural Women's World Games in 1922, and made its first appearance in the Olympic Games in 1932 as 80m hurdles.
Starting with the 1972 Summer Olympics, the women's race was lengthened to 100m hurdles.[1]
The hurdles sprint race has been run by women since the beginning of women's athletics, just after the end of World War I. The distances and hurdle heights varied widely in the beginning. While the men had zeroed in on the 110 m hurdles, the International Women's Sport Federation had registered records for eight different disciplines by 1926 (60 yards/75 cm height, 60 yards/61 cm, 65 yards/75 cm, 83 yards/75 cm, 100 yards/75 cm, 100 yards/61 cm, 120 yards/75 cm, 110 metres/75 cm). At the first Women's World Games in 1922, a 100 m hurdles race was run.
From 1926 until 1968, the distance was 80 metres: women had to clear eight hurdles placed at a distance of 8 metres from each other and a height of 30 inches (76.2 cm).
Just like with the men's races, until 1935 no more than three hurdles could be knocked over, or the runner was disqualified, and records were only officially registered if the runner had cleared all her hurdles clean.
In 1935, this rule was abandoned, and L-shaped hurdles were introduced that fell over forward easily and greatly reduced the risk of injury to the runner. Hurdles are weighted, so when properly set for the height (for women, closer to the fulcrum of the "L"), they serve as a consistent disadvantage to making contact with the barrier.
| Distance | Number of hurdles | Height | Distance made up of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runup | Intervals | Home stretch | |||
| 80 m | 8 | 76.2 cm | 12 m | 8.0 m | 12.0 m |
| 100 m | 10 | 83.8 cm | 13 m | 8.5 m | 10.5 m |
The 80 m hurdles was on the list of women's sports demanded by the International Women's Sport Federation for the Olympic Summer Games in 1928, but wasn't included as an Olympic discipline until 1932. Starting with 1949, the 80 m hurdles was one of the disciplines included in the women's pentathlon.
During the 1960s, some experimental races were run over a distance of 100 metres using hurdles with a height of 30 inches (76.2 cm). During the 1968 Summer Olympics, a decision was made to introduce the 100 m hurdles from 1969, using hurdles with a height of 33 inches (83.8 cm).
The first international event in the 100 m hurdles occurred at the European Athletics Championships, which were won by Karin Balzer of the GDR.
The modern 100 m race has an extra two hurdles compared to the 80 m race, which are higher and spaced slightly further apart. The home stretch is shorter by 1.5 m.
Currently, women run 110 m hurdles at the World Athletics Relays, a mixed team event, which was instituted in 2019.
Masters athletics
A version of the 100 metres hurdles is also used for 50- to 59-year-old men in Masters athletics. They run the same spacing as women, which coordinates with existing markings on most tracks, but run over 36-inch (0.914 m) hurdles. In the 60-69 age range, the spacings are changed. Women over age 40 and men over age 70 run 80 metre versions with different heights and spacings.[2][3]
Milestones
100 m hurdles:
- First official time registered with hurdles of reduced height of 30 inches (76.2 cm): Pamela Kilborn, AUS, November 26, 1961
- First official time with hurdles of standard height of 33 inches (83.8 cm): 15.1 seconds, Connie Pettersson, USA, May 28, 1966
- First official world record: 13.3 seconds, Karin Balzer, GDR, June 20, 1969
- First runner under 13 seconds: 12.9 seconds, Karin Balzer, GDR, September 5, 1969
- First runner under 12.5 seconds:
- 12.3 seconds, Annelie Ehrhardt GDR, July 20, 1973 (last hand timed world record; electronically timed at 12.68 seconds)
- 12.48 seconds, Grażyna Rabsztyn, POL, June 10, 1978
- First runner under 12.3 seconds: 12.29 seconds, Yordanka Donkova BUL, August 17, 1986
- First runner under 12.2 seconds: 12.12 seconds, Tobi Amusan NGR, July 24, 2022. 12.06 seconds (wind aided) Tobi Amusan NGR, July 24, 2022.
- First country to win gold, silver, and bronze in the women's 100 m hurdles in one Olympics: USA (Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin), 2016; this was also the first time American women achieved such a sweep in any Olympic event[4]
All-time top 25
- Correct as of April 2023.[5]
| Ath.# | Perf.# | Time (s) | Wind (m/s) | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 12.12 | +0.9 | Tobi Amusan | Nigeria | 24 JUL 2022 | Eugene | [6] |
| 2 | 2 | 12.20 | +0.3 | Kendra Harrison | United States | 22 JUL 2016 | London | [7] |
| 3 | 3 | 12.21 | +0.7 | Yordanka Donkova | Bulgaria | 20 AUG 1988 | Stara Zagora | |
| 4 | 12.24 | +0.9 | Donkova #2 | 28 AUG 1988 | Stara Zagora | |||
| +0.7 | Harrison #2 | 28 MAY 2016 | Eugene | |||||
| 4 | 6 | 12.25 | +1.4 | Ginka Zagorcheva | Bulgaria | 08 AUG 1987 | Drama | |
| 6 | 12.26 | +1.5 | Donkova #3 | 07 SEP 1986 | Ljubljana | |||
| 5 | 8 | 12.26 | +1.7 | Ludmila Narozhilenko | Russia | 06 JUN 1992 | Seville | |
| +1.2 | Brianna Rollins | United States | 22 JUN 2013 | Des Moines | [8] | |||
| −0.2 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Puerto Rico | 01 AUG 2021 | Tokyo | [9] | |||
| 11 | 12.27 | −1.2 | Donkova #4 | 28 AUG 1988 | Stara Zagora | |||
| +0.9 | Harrison #3 | 24 JUL 2022 | Eugene | [10] | ||||
| +0.1 | Camacho-Quinn #2 | 02 SEP 2022 | Brussels | [11] | ||||
| 14 | 12.28 | +1.8 | Narozhilenko #2 | 11 JUL 1991 | Kyiv | |||
| +0.9 | Narozhilenko #3 | 06 JUN 1992 | Seville | |||||
| 8 | 14 | 12.28 | +1.1 | Sally Pearson | Australia | 03 SEP 2011 | Deagu | [12] |
| 14 | 12.28 | +0.1 | Harrison #4 | 04 JUL 2017 | Székesfehérvár | |||
| 18 | 12.29 | −0.4 | Donkova #5 | 17 AUG 1986 | Cologne | |||
| −0.3 | Amusan #2 | 08 SEP 2022 | Zürich | [13] | ||||
| 20 | 12.30 | −0.2 | Amusan #3 | 07 AUG 2022 | Birmingham | [14] | ||
| 9 | 21 | 12.31 | +0.3 | Britany Anderson | Jamaica | 24 JUL 2022 | Eugene | [15] |
| 22 | 12.32 | +1.6 | Narozhilenko #4 | 04 JUN 1992 | Saint-Denis | |||
| 10 | 22 | 12.32 | +0.8 | Danielle Williams | Jamaica | 20 JUL 2019 | London | [16] |
| 22 | 12.32 | +1.7 | Camacho-Quinn #3 | 17 APR 2021 | Gainesville | |||
| +0.3 | Camacho-Quinn #4 | 24 JUL 2022 | Eugene | [17] | ||||
| 11 | 12.33 | −0.3 | Gail Devers | United States | 23 JUL 2000 | Sacramento | ||
| 12 | 12.34 | +1.9 | Sharika Nelvis | United States | 26 JUN 2015 | Eugene | [18] | |
| +0.3 | Nia Ali | United States | 06 OCT 2019 | Doha | [19] | |||
| 14 | 12.35 | +0.9 | Jasmin Stowers | United States | 15 MAY 2015 | Doha | [20] | |
| −1.4 | Alaysha Johnson | United States | 25 JUN 2022 | Eugene | [21] | |||
| 16 | 12.36 | +1.9 | Grażyna Rabsztyn | Poland | 13 JUN 1980 | Warsaw | ||
| +2.0 | Masai Russell | United States | 01 APR 2023 | Austin | [22] | |||
| 18 | 12.37 | +1.5 | Joanna Hayes | United States | 24 AUG 2004 | Athens | ||
| −0.2 | Dawn Harper | United States | 07 AUG 2012 | London | ||||
| 20 | 12.38 | +0.1 | Tia Jones | United States | 02 SEP 2022 | Brussels | [23] | |
| 21 | 12.39 | +1.5 | Vera Komisova | Soviet Union | 05 AUG 1980 | Rome | ||
| +1.8 | Nataliya Grygoryeva | Soviet Union | 11 JUL 1991 | Kyiv | ||||
| 23 | 12.40 | +0.6 | Janeek Brown | Jamaica | 08 JUN 2019 | Austin | [24] | |
| 24 | 12.41 | +0.5 | Alina Talay | Belarus | 31 MAY 2018 | St. Pölten | [25] | |
| 25 | 12.42 | +1.8 | Bettine Jahn | East Germany | 08 JUN 1983 | Berlin | ||
| +2.0 | Anjanette Kirkland | United States | 11 AUG 2001 | Edmonton |
Assisted marks
Any performance with a following wind of more than 2.0 metres per second does not count for record purposes. Below is a list of all wind-assisted times equal or superior to 12.37:
- Tobi Amusan (NGR) ran 12.06 sec (+2.5) in Eugene, Oregon on 24 July 2022.
- Britany Anderson (JAM) ran 12.23 sec (+2.5) in Eugene, Oregon on 24 July 2022.
- Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) ran 12.23 sec (+2.5) in Eugene, Oregon on 24 July 2022 and 12.27 sec (+2.4) on 8 August 2022 in Székesfehérvár.
- Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) ran 12.28 sec (+2.7) in Berlin on 25 August 1987.
- Yordanka Donkova (BUL) ran 12.29 sec (+3.5) in Lausanne on 24 June 1988.
- Gail Devers (USA) ran 12.29 sec (+2.7) in Eugene, Oregon on 26 May 2002.
- Lolo Jones (USA) ran 12.29 sec (+3.8) in Eugene, Oregon on 6 July 2008.
- Brianna Rollins ran 12.30 (+2.8) on 22 June 2013, 12.33 (+2.3) on 21 June 2013, and 12.37 (+2.5) on 18 April 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Alia Armstrong (USA) ran 12.31 sec (+2.5) in Eugene, Oregon on 24 July 2022, and 12.33 sec (+2.5) in Austin, Texas on 26 March 2022.
- Kendra Harrison (USA) ran 12.32 sec (+3.9) in Austin, Texas on 26 March 2022.
- Bettine Jahn (GDR) ran 12.35 sec (+2.4) in Helsinki on 13 August 1983.
- Kellie Wells (USA) ran 12.35 sec (+3.7) in Gainesville, Florida on 16 April 2011
- Dawn Harper (USA) ran 12.36 sec (+2.2) in Eugene, Oregon on 28 June 2009
- Tonea Marshall (USA) ran 12.36 sec (+2.1) in Waco, Texas on 23 April 2022.
- Gloria Siebert (GDR) ran 12.37 sec (+2.7) in Berlin on 25 August 1987.
- Danielle Carruthers (USA) ran 12.37 sec (+3.4) in Eugene, Oregon on 26 June 2011.
Most successful athletes
- Shirley Strickland (AUS): two Olympic victories, 1952 and 1956 in the 80 m hurdles.
- Ludmila Narozhilenko-Engquist (URS)/(RUS)/(SWE): Olympic victory, 1996, two World Championship victories, 1991 and 1997.
- Gail Devers (USA): three World Championships, 1993, 1995, 1999, as well as runner-up at the 1991 and 2001 World Championships.[26]
- Sally Pearson (AUS): Olympic victory in 2012, as well as runner-up in 2008.[27] World Championship victories in 2011 and 2017, as well as runner-up in 2013.[28]
- Brianna Rollins (USA): Olympic victory in 2016, World Championships 2013.
Olympic medalists
World Championships medalists
Season's bests
See also
External links
- IAAF list of 100-metres-hurdles records in XML
Notes and references
- ^ "100 Metres Hurdles". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
- ^ "Hurdles 101".
- ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: US women sweep medals in 100m hurdles - BBC News". Bbc.com. 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "All-time women's best 100m hurdles". alltime-athletics.com. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Semifinal Results" (PDF). World Athletics. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ (PDF). sportresult.com. 22 July 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ Kirby Lee (23 June 2013). "National records for Rollins, Carter and Bingson at US Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ (PDF). olympics.com. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Semifinal Results" (PDF). World Athletics. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Jon Mulkeen (2 September 2022). "Krop, Mahuchikh and Winger bounce back in Brussels with world-leading marks". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ (PDF). IAAF. 3 September 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ Jess Whittington; Jon Mulkeen (8 September 2022). "Amusan and Lyles break meeting records en route to Diamond League wins in Zurich". World Athletics. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ "100m Hurdles Final Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
- ^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Semifinal Results" (PDF). World Athletics. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Bob Ramsak (20 July 2019). "Williams blazes 12.32, Warholm improves to 47.12 in London – IAAF Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Semifinal Results" (PDF). World Athletics. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "100m Hurdles Heat 3 Results". 26 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ "100m Hurdles Final Results" (PDF). IAAF. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "100m Hurdles Results". IAAF. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ Karen Rosen (26 June 2022). "McLaughlin breaks world 400m hurdles record with 51.41 at US Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Russell breaks collegiate 100m hurdles record at Texas Relays". World Athletics. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Jon Mulkeen (2 September 2022). "Krop, Mahuchikh and Winger bounce back in Brussels with world-leading marks". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ "100m Hurdles Results" (PDF). cloudfront.net. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ Alfonz Juck (31 May 2018). "Alina Talay hurdles 12.41 for 100m hurdles, Fastest European time since 1992!". runblogrun.com. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ "GAIL DEVERS". Team USA.
- ^ "Sally Pearson". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
- ^ "Pearson, world champion and 2012 Olympic 100m hurdles gold medallist, retires| News". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
Amusan ran 12.06 at the Oregon World Championships, but the time is unofficial, due to +2.5 wind
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