The women's
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
2023 World Athletics Championships
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was held at the
National Athletics Centre in
Budapest
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from 22 to 24 August 2023.
Summary
In the first round, former world record holder
Kendra Harrison ran 12.24, equalling her own #4 performance in history, leaving her with three of the top 5 races ever. Even her 12.33 in the semi-finals had only been beaten by ten women ever, but four of them made the finals along with her:
Tobi Amusan, the defending champion who set the world record in the semi-final round at the previous championships;
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn,
Olympic Champion
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;
Nia Ali, 2019 champion; and
Danielle Williams
Danielle Gracia Williams (born 14 September 1992) is a Jamaican track and field athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles. She is best known for winning gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2023 World Championships. In ...
, the 2015 champion. From that elite field,
Devynne Charlton was the first one over the first hurdle. Charlton maintained that advantage as Camacho-Quinn and Harrison were trying to reel her in while Ali was hitting hurdles. Almost unnoticed in lane 2, Williams was getting up a head of steam, pulling even with Charlton by the fifth hurdle and taking a clear lead by the seventh. By the eighth, Harrison had gotten by Charlton and had separated to second. At the ninth, Camacho-Quinn got past Charlton and moving the fastest. Camacho-Quinn and Harrison cleared the last hurdle together, still marginally behind Williams. Camacho-Quinn closed quickly to make a photo finish with Williams, leaving Harrison with bronze. The photo gave it to Williams.
Records
Before the competition records were as follows:
Qualification standard
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 12.78 seconds.
Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), is as follows:
Results
Round 1 (heats)
Round 1 will take place on 22 August, with the 43 athletes involved being split into 5 heats of 9 athletes each. The first 4 athletes in each heat (
Q ) and the next 4 fastest (
q ) qualify for the semi-final. The overall results were as follows:
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.1 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s, Heat 5: +0.4 m/s
Semi-final
The semi-final took place on 23 August, with the 24 athletes involved being split into 3 heats. The first 2 athletes in each heat (
Q ) and the next 2 fastest (
q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -0.7 m/s, Heat 3: -0.4 m/s
Final
The final started at 21:22 on 24 August. The overall results were as follows:
Wind: -0.2 m/s
References
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100 hurdles
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