2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres


The women's 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 and 24 August. 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.

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.
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.
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.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record10.49Indianapolis, United States16 July 1988
Championship record10.70Seville, Spain28 August 1999
World leading10.74Paris, France4 July 2015
African record10.79London, United Kingdom27 July 2013
Asian record10.79Shanghai, China18 October 1997
NACAC record10.49Indianapolis, United States16 July 1988
South American record10.99Toronto, Canada22 July 2015
European record10.73Budapest, Hungary19 August 1998
Oceanian record11.11Canberra, Australia9 February 2014

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: Best 3 and next 3 fastest qualify for the next round.
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
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Tori Bowie10.88
14Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce10.88
34Marie-Josée Ta Lou10.95
43Michelle-Lee Ahye10.98
55Dafne Schippers11.01
61Veronica Campbell-Brown11.04
72Blessing Okagbare11.07
82Natasha Morrison11.08
84Carina Horn11.08
103Ivet Lalova11.09,
113Murielle Ahouré11.10
123Ezinne Okparaebo11.12,
136Kelly-Ann Baptiste11.13
147Rosângela Santos11.14
155Semoy Hackett11.16,
157English Gardner11.16
176Mujinga Kambundji11.17,
186Sherone Simpson11.22
197Chisato Fukushima11.23,
202Viktoriya Zyabkina11.24
211Asha Philip11.28
216Wei Yongli11.28,
235Jasmine Todd11.29
234Ramona Papaioannou11.29
234Rebekka Haase11.29
266Khamica Bingham11.30
273Crystal Emmanuel11.33
281Gina Lückenkemper11.34
295Olesya Povh11.40
302Naomi Sedney11.41
302Verena Sailer11.41
327Maja Mihalinec11.42
333Isidora Jiménez11.47
335Tahesia Harrigan-Scott11.47
356Narcisa Landazuri11.48
357Sheniqua Ferguson11.48
371Olga Safronova11.49
381Inna Eftimova11.50
394Nediam Vargas11.51
405Kimberly Hyacinthe11.54
412Melissa Breen11.61
427Nataliya Pohrebnyak11.62
427Andrea Purica11.62
443Aziza Sbaity11.98
456Hafsatu Kamara12.13
465Adriana Alves12.19
471Valentina Meredova12.25
483Patricia Taea12.34
491Lidiane Lopes12.43
506Marlene Mevong12.56
515Regine Tugade12.60
522Lihen Jonas13.70
2Charlotte WingfieldR162.7
4Jamile SamuelR162.7

Semifinals

Qualification: Best 2 and next 2 fastest qualify for the next round.
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce10.82
23Dafne Schippers10.83,
32Tori Bowie10.87
41Blessing Okagbare10.89
43Veronica Campbell-Brown10.89,
62Kelly-Ann Baptiste10.90
72Natasha Morrison10.96,
83Michelle-Lee Ahye10.97,
93Murielle Ahouré10.98
101Marie-Josée Ta Lou11.04
111Sherone Simpson11.06
122Rosângela Santos11.07
122Mujinga Kambundji11.07
143Ivet Lalova11.13
141Semoy Hackett11.13
141English Gardner11.13
173Carina Horn11.15
182Viktoriya Zyabkina11.19
183Ezinne Okparaebo11.19
201Asha Philip11.21
203Jasmine Todd11.21
221Wei Yongli11.27
232Chisato Fukushima11.32
242Ramona Papaioannou11.38

Final

The final was started at 21:35.
Wind: -0.3 m/s
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce10.76
Dafne Schippers10.81
Tori Bowie10.86
4Veronica Campbell-Brown10.91
5Michelle-Lee Ahye10.98
6Kelly-Ann Baptiste11.01
7Natasha Morrison11.02
8Blessing Okagbare11.02