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Tobi Amusan (center) during the semi-finals at the 2022 World Athletics Championships where she set her world record of 12.12 s. The women's 100 metres hurdles is an outdoor track event over a distance of 100 metres with ten hurdles at the height of 83.8 cm (33 inches). [1] The event superseded the women's 80 metres hurdles. [2]
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.
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 ...
Kendra "Keni" Harrison (born September 18, 1992) is an American hurdler.Harrison held the world record in the women's 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds, set on July 22, 2016 at the London Müller Anniversary Games, breaking the previous world record of 12.21 seconds achieved nearly 28 years earlier by Bulgarian athlete Yordanka Donkova.
Here's the full results from the women's 100-meter hurdles on Saturday, in which the United States' Masai Russell narrowly won: First-, second and third-place finishers win gold, silver and bronze ...
Nia Ali, who was part of an American 100 hurdles medal sweep in Rio, clocked a time of 12.37 seconds in the final at U.S. Olympic Trials, yet finished fourth. Former world record holder Keni ...
The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 23 and 24 July 2022. [1] It was won by Tobi Amusan. Amusan set a world record of 12.12 seconds in the semi-final. She ran 12.06 to win the final, but that was not a world record because it was wind assisted.
World Record Tobi Amusan (NGR) 12.12: Eugene, United States: 24 July 2022 Asian Record Olga Shishigina (KAZ) 12.44: Lucerne, Switzerland: 27 June 1995 Games Record Olga Shishigina 12.63: Bangkok, Thailand: 19 December 1998