2015_World_Championships_in_Athletics_–_Women's_100_metres

2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres

2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres

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The women's 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 and 24 August.[1] Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce entered the competition as the defending champion and the world leading athlete that season with a time of 10.74 seconds.[2][3]

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Summary

The semi-finals eliminated the second fastest woman in 2015, English Gardner, otherwise it was mostly the expected fastest athletes from the world list. The surprise was Dafne Schippers improving her own national record by almost a tenth of a second to 10.83 while winning the third semi-final. Previous to that, Schippers had one significant win in London at the end of July, a race that only included one other finalist, Blessing Okagbare, and had been soundly defeated by Fraser-Pryce, Gardner and Okagbare in Paris in early June. Schippers time won her a center lane position, towering next to Fraser-Pryce in the final.

In the final, the gun went off and as expected Fraser-Pryce, the "pocket rocket" was out in front, her first three steps clearly faster than the field. While Schippers had the second best reaction time of the field, she appeared to be slightly behind Natasha Morrison and Michelle-Lee Ahye with veteran Veronica Campbell-Brown out in second place behind her teammate. But as top end speed was reached, Schippers and Tori Bowie behind her began eating into the lead with every stride.[4] She was unable to catch Fraser-Pryce who held her arms up in victory as she crossed the line, running out of time Schippers made a desperate early lean at the finish while Bowie over strided her last few steps also in desperation in third.[5] Each of the first 5 were clearly separated by .05 of a second. Schippers 10.81 in second place improved upon her national record for the second time in the same day.[6]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:[7]

World record  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49 Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988
Championship record  Marion Jones (USA) 10.70 Seville, Spain 28 August 1999
World leading  Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 10.74 Paris, France 4 July 2015
African record  Blessing Okagbare (NGR) 10.79 London, United Kingdom 27 July 2013
Asian record  Li Xuemei (CHN) 10.79 Shanghai, China 18 October 1997
NACAC record  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49 Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988
South American record  Ángela Tenorio (ECU) 10.99 Toronto, Canada 22 July 2015
European record  Christine Arron (FRA) 10.73 Budapest, Hungary 19 August 1998
Oceanian record  Melissa Breen (AUS) 11.11 Canberra, Australia 9 February 2014

Qualification standards

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Schedule

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All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

KEY: QQualified qFastest non-qualifiers NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.[9]

Wind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.3 m/s, Heat 3: -1.2 m/s Heat 4: +2.3 m/s, Heat 5: -1.6 m/s, Heat 6: +1.5 m/s, Heat 7: -0.5 m/s

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Semifinals

Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.[10]

Wind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s

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Final

The final was started at 21:35.[11] Wind: -0.3 m/s

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References

  1. [1]
    "Beijing 2015: Timetable". Beijing 2015. 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. [2]
    Bolt and Fraser-Pryce front Jamaica's team for IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015. IAAF (2015-08-11). Retrieved on 2015-08-16.
  3. [3]
    Start list
  4. [4]
    "Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powers to third world championships 100m gold". Guardian. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce holds off charging Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers for World Championships 100m glory". Daily Telegraph. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  6. [6]
    "World Championships 2015: Fraser-Pryce retains 100m title". BBC Sport. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Records & Lists – 100 meters". IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  8. [8]
    IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards (PDF), IAAF, 2014, retrieved 17 August 2015
  9. [9]
    Heats results
  10. [10]
    Semifinals results
  11. [11]
    Final results
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