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100 metres Hurdles, Women

Date	22 – 24 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Stadio, Olympiako Athletiko Kentro Athinon Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Participants	37 from 23 countries

For the fourth straight Olympics, Gail Devers continued her personal high hurdles soap opera. This time she started the first round with a wrap around an injured calf, and she did not make it over the first hurdle, her Olympic hurdling career over. The favorite’s role in Athina fell to Canada’s Perdita Felicien, who had been World Champion in 2003, and she posted the fastest time in the semi-finals. In the final, Felicien hit the first hurdle hard, and moved into the adjacent lane, taking out Russia’s Irina Shevchenko, both falling. There was now nobody left in the race with any significant high hurdle record. America’s Joanna Hayes, a converted 400 hurdler, went on to win in 12.37. Russian officials protested the race, demanding that it be re-run but this was not done.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	3275	Joanna Hayes	USA	12.71 (1 h4)	12.48 (1 h2)	12.37 (1)	Gold	OR
2	3178	Olena Ovcharova-Krasovska	UKR	12.84 (3 h5)	12.58 (3 h1)	12.45 (2)	Silver
3	3314	Melissa Morrison	USA	12.76 (1 h1)	12.53 (2 h1)	12.56 (3)	Bronze
4	2895	Mariya Koroteyeva	RUS	12.72 (1 h3)	12.60 (4 h1)	12.72 (4)
5	2230	Lacena Golding-Clarke	JAM	12.86 (3 h3)	12.69 (3 h2)	12.73 (5)
6	1327	Angela Whyte	CAN	13.01 (3 h2)	12.69 (4 h2)	12.81 (6)
AC r3/3	1313	Perdita Felicien	CAN	12.73 (2 h3)	12.49 (1 h1)	– (DNF)
AC r3/3	2938	Irina Shevchenko	RUS	12.82 (2 h5)	12.67 (2 h2)	– (DNF)
5 h1 r2/3	2227	Delloreen Ennis-London	JAM	12.77 (2 h1)	12.60 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r2/3	2899	Nataliya Kresova	RUS	12.90 (2 h4)	12.76 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r2/3	1560	Glory Alozie	ESP	12.92 (2 h2)	12.62 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r2/3	1762	Reïna-Flor Okori	FRA	12.81 (1 h5)	12.81 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r2/3	3073	Susanna Kallur	SWE	12.89 (4 h3)	12.67 (7 h1)	–
8 h1 r2/3	2054	Nadine Faustin-Parker	HAI	12.94 (3 h1)	12.74 (8 h1)	–
AC h2 r2/3	1864	Kirsten Bolm	GER	12.85 (4 h5)	– (DNF h2)	–
1 h2 r1/3	2228	Brigitte Foster	JAM	12.83 (1 h2)	– (DNS h2)	–
3 h4 r1/3	2705	Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch	POL	13.01 (3 h4)	–	–
4 h1 r1/3	1597	Aliuska López	ESP	13.21 (4 h1)	–	–
4 h2 r1/3	1738	Linda Ferga-Khodadin	FRA	13.02 (4 h2)	–	–
4 h4 r1/3	1765	Nicole Ramalalanirina	FRA	13.07 (4 h4)	–	–
5 h1 r1/3	1477	Anay Tejeda	CUB	13.24 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r1/3	3072	Jenny Kallur	SWE	13.11 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r1/3	2011	Flora Rentoumi	GRE	13.14 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r1/3	1316	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	CAN	13.08 (5 h4)	–	–
5 h5 r1/3	1505	Lucie Škrobáková-Martincová	CZE	13.51 (5 h5)	–	–
6 h1 r1/3	1936	Juliane Sprenger-Afflerbach	GER	13.28 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r1/3	1891	Nadine Hentschke	GER	13.36 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r1/3	1251	Maíla Machado	BRA	13.35 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r1/3	1797	Sarah Claxton	GBR	13.14 (6 h4)	–	–
7 h1 r1/3	2150	Irina Lenskiy	ISR	13.75 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r1/3	2454	Rosa Rakotozafy	MAD	13.67 (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r1/3	1373	Su Yiping	CHN	13.53 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h4 r1/3	2137	Derval O'Rourke	IRL	13.46 (7 h4)	–	–
8 h1 r1/3	2999	Céline Laporte	SEY	13.92 (8 h1)	–	–
8 h2 r1/3	3101	Tricia Roberts	THA	13.80 (8 h2)	–	–
8 h4 r1/3	1298	Marie-Joëlle Conjungo	CAF	14.24 (8 h4)	–	–
AC h5 r1/3	3252	Gail Devers	USA	– (DNF h5)	–	–
DNS	1287	Svetla Dimitrova	BUL	– (DNS h5)	–	–

Round One (22 August 2004 — 19:35)

Top two in each heat and next six fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (19:35)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	4	Melissa Morrison	USA	12.76	0.154	Q
2	3	Delloreen Ennis-London	JAM	12.77	0.157	Q
3	6	Nadine Faustin-Parker	HAI	12.94	0.191	q
4	7	Aliuska López	ESP	13.21	0.210
5	2	Anay Tejeda	CUB	13.24	0.157
6	5	Juliane Sprenger-Afflerbach	GER	13.28	0.202
7	1	Irina Lenskiy	ISR	13.75	0.248
8	8	Céline Laporte	SEY	13.92	0.172

Heat Two (19:42)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	2	Brigitte Foster	JAM	12.83	0.154	Q
2	7	Glory Alozie	ESP	12.92	0.279	Q
3	6	Angela Whyte	CAN	13.01	0.245	q
4	8	Linda Ferga-Khodadin	FRA	13.02	0.279
5	4	Jenny Kallur	SWE	13.11	0.233
6	1	Nadine Hentschke	GER	13.36	0.176
7	3	Rosa Rakotozafy	MAD	13.67	0.179
8	5	Tricia Roberts	THA	13.80	0.252

Heat Three (19:49)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	6	Mariya Koroteyeva	RUS	12.72	0.194	Q
2	4	Perdita Felicien	CAN	12.73	0.173	Q
3	5	Lacena Golding-Clarke	JAM	12.86	0.165	q
4	3	Susanna Kallur	SWE	12.89	0.242	q
5	2	Flora Rentoumi	GRE	13.14	0.184
6	7	Maíla Machado	BRA	13.35	0.226
7	8	Su Yiping	CHN	13.53	0.230

Heat Four (19:56)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	2	Joanna Hayes	USA	12.71	0.175	Q
2	4	Nataliya Kresova	RUS	12.90	0.201	Q
3	1	Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch	POL	13.01	0.184
4	3	Nicole Ramalalanirina	FRA	13.07	0.185
5	6	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	CAN	13.08	0.205
6	7	Sarah Claxton	GBR	13.14	0.241
7	5	Derval O'Rourke	IRL	13.46	0.198
8	8	Marie-Joëlle Conjungo	CAF	14.24	0.183

Heat Five (20:03)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	5	Reïna-Flor Okori	FRA	12.81	0.186	Q
2	3	Irina Shevchenko	RUS	12.82	0.180	Q
3	2	Olena Ovcharova-Krasovska	UKR	12.84	0.201	q
4	7	Kirsten Bolm	GER	12.85	0.170	q
5	8	Lucie Škrobáková-Martincová	CZE	13.51	0.189
DNF	6	Gail Devers	USA	–	0.170
DNS	4	Svetla Dimitrova	BUL	–	–

Semi-Finals (23 August 2004 — 19:00)

Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One (19:00)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	4	Perdita Felicien	CAN	12.49	0.171	Q
2	6	Melissa Morrison	USA	12.53	0.156	Q
3	1	Olena Ovcharova-Krasovska	UKR	12.58	0.145	Q
4	5	Mariya Koroteyeva	RUS	12.60	0.166	Q
5	3	Delloreen Ennis-London	JAM	12.60	0.167
6	8	Glory Alozie	ESP	12.62	0.165
7	7	Susanna Kallur	SWE	12.67	0.173
8	2	Nadine Faustin-Parker	HAI	12.74	0.170

Heat Two (19:08)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	5	Joanna Hayes	USA	12.48	0.190	Q
2	3	Irina Shevchenko	RUS	12.67	0.160	Q
3	2	Lacena Golding-Clarke	JAM	12.69	0.153	Q
4	7	Angela Whyte	CAN	12.69	0.117	Q
5	1	Nataliya Kresova	RUS	12.76	0.178
6	6	Reïna-Flor Okori	FRA	12.81	0.187
DNF	8	Kirsten Bolm	GER	–	0.194
DNS	4	Brigitte Foster	JAM	–	–

Final (24 August 2004 — 22:30)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	4	Joanna Hayes	USA	12.37	0.169	OR
2	1	Olena Ovcharova-Krasovska	UKR	12.45	0.151
3	3	Melissa Morrison	USA	12.56	0.145
4	8	Mariya Koroteyeva	RUS	12.72	0.195
5	2	Lacena Golding-Clarke	JAM	12.73	0.149
6	7	Angela Whyte	CAN	12.81	0.155
DNF	5	Perdita Felicien	CAN	–	0.167
DNF	6	Irina Shevchenko	RUS	–	0.155