The

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 are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...

at the

2005 World Championships in Athletics The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (6 August 2005 – 14 August 2005), the site of the first IAAF ...

was held at the

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on August 9, 10 and 11. The top four runners in each of the initial 5 heats automatically qualified for the semifinals. The next four fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. There were three semifinal heats, and only the top two from each heat plus the next two fastest runners advanced to the final.

Summary

Olympic champion

Joanna Hayes Joanna Dove Hayes (born December 23, 1976, Williamsport, Pennsylvania) is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She originally specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the silv ...

was out the fastest, gaining about a foot over the first barrier. That advantage didn't last long as there were six women dead even over the second. By the third hurdle Michelle Perry had emerged with a fractional lead. By the fourth, Delloreen Ennis-London began to separate by inches from the wall as Mariya Koroteyeva and Kirsten Bolm began to lose ground. Ennis-London was much faster to the sixth hurdle, capturing a slight lead. Running virtually stride for stride, immediately to Ennis-London's left, Hayes also pulled even with Perry, with

Brigitte Foster-Hylton Brigitte Foster-Hylton OD (born 7 November 1974 in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican 100m hurdler. She was the World Champion over 100m hurdles in 2009. Like fellow Jamaican hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London she was not a successful hurdl ...

just inches behind the three. But Ennis-London lost her quick snap over the hurdles, instead gliding, relinquishing her hold on the lead while Hayes again was matching Perry stride for stride until Hayes hooked the ninth hurdle. She lost her balance between hurdles so much she never jumped the tenth hurdle, instead carrying it some seven metres down the track before pushing it away and striding over the finish line in last. With her last challenger suddenly out of the race, Perry ran in to the finish with a 1-metre lead over Ennis-London, who was less than a half metre ahead of her teammate Foster-Hylton across the line for silver.

Medalists

Results

All times shown are in seconds.
Q denotes qualification by place.
q denotes qualification by time.
DNS denotes did not start.
DNF denotes did not finish.
AR denotes area record
NR denotes national record.
PB denotes personal best.
SB denotes season's best.

Round 1

August 9

Heat 1

# Michelle Perry,

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

12.64s Q # Vonette Dixon,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

12.95s Q # Jenny Kallur, Sweden 12.96s Q # Reïna-Flor Okori,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

13.14s Q # Maíla Machado,

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

13.21s # Hanna Korell,

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

13.39s * Fatmata Fofanah, Guinea DNS

Heat 2

# Delloreen Ennis-London,

12.65s Q # Glory Alozie, Spain 12.71s Q # Mariya Koroteyeva,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

12.73s Q # Ginnie Powell,

12.91s Q # Sarah Claxton,

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

13.17s # Flora Redoumi,

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

13.65s # Jeimy Bernardez, Honduras 14.78s # Barbara Rustignoli,

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15.51s

Heat 3

Perdita Felicien Perdita Felicien (born August 29, 1980) is a Canadian retired hurdler. Felicien is the 2003 World champion in the 100 metres hurdles and 2004 World indoor champion in the 60 metres hurdles. She also won silver medals at the 2007 World Champions ...

, Canada 12.77s Q # Nadine Faustin-Parker, Haiti 12.85s Q # Aurelia Trywianska,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

12.86s Q # Susanna Kallur, Sweden 12.87s Q # Adrianna Lamalle, France 12.93s q #

Derval O'Rourke Derval O'Rourke (born 28 May 1981) is an Irish former sprint hurdles athlete. She competed internationally in the 60 and 100 metres hurdles, and is the Irish national record holder in both events. She participated in two Ind ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

13.00s q (SB) # Trecia Roberts,

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

13.93s (SB)

Heat 4

, Jamaica 12.64s Q # Kirsten Bolm, Germany 12.68s Q # Irina Shevchenko, Russia 12.76s Q (SB) # Priscilla Lopes, Canada 12.85s Q #

Anay Tejeda Anay Tejeda Quesada (born 3 April 1983 in Marianao, Havana) is a Cuban hurdler. Her personal best time is 12.61 seconds, achieved in July 2008 in Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the ...

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12.96s q # Solène Eboulabeka, The Congo 14.66s * Lucie Martincová,

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DNS

Heat 5

, United States 12.79s Q # Linda Ferga-Khodadin,

12.85s Q # Olena Krasovska,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

12.86s Q # Angela Whyte,

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

12.88s Q # Feng Yun, China 12.99s q # Celine Laporte,

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...

14.00s * Natalya Rusakova, Russia DNF

Semifinals

August 10

Semifinal 1

# Delloreen Ennis-London, Jamaica 12.79s Q # Mariya Koroteyeva, Russia 12.80s Q # Jenny Kallur, Sweden 12.85s q (PB) # Perdita Felicien, Canada 12.94s # Anay Tejeda, Cuba 12.95s # Ginnie Powell, United States 13.02s # Yun Feng, China 13.15s * Linda Ferga-Khodadin, France DNF

Semifinal 2

# Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaica 12.65s Q # Joanna Hayes, United States 12.76s Q # Irina Shevchenko, Russia 12.76s q (SB) # Olena Krasovska, Ukraine 12.85s # Priscilla Lopes, Canada 12.91s # Reïna-Flor Okori, France 12.99s # Derval O'Rourke, Ireland 13.23s # Nadine Faustin-Parker, Haiti 13.27s

Semifinal 3

# Michelle Perry, United States 12.86s Q # Kirsten Bolm, Germany 12.95s Q # Susanna Kallur, Sweden 13.05s # Glory Alozie, Spain 13.05s # Vonette Dixon, Jamaica 13.08s # Aurelia Trywianska, Poland 13.11s # Angela Whyte, Canada 13.52s # Adrianna Lamalle, France 13.60s

Final

August 11 # Michelle Perry, United States 12.66s # Delloreen Ennis-London, Jamaica 12.76s # Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaica 12.76s # Kirsten Bolm, Germany 12.82s # Mariya Koroteyeva, Russia 12.93s # Jenny Kallur, Sweden 12.95s # Irina Shevchenko, Russia 12.97s * Joanna Hayes, United States DNF Olympic champion and favorite Joanna Hayes stumbled in the hurdles.

External links

IAAF results, heats
{{DEFAULTSORT:2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 100 metres hurdles

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