Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres; at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Date	20–21 August
Competitors	63 from 56 nations
Winning time	10.92 s
Medalists
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Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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The women's 100 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 20 to 21.

In the first round, the first three runners from each of the eight heats, together with the eight next fastest overall runners (8×3+8=32), automatically qualified for the second round. In the second round, these thirty-two runners competed in four heats, with the first three from each heat and the four next fastest overall (4×3+4=16) advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, only the first four runners from each of the two heats move on to the final (2×4=8).

With some of the world's most promising sprinters, including 2000 Olympic champion Marion Jones and home favorite Ekaterini Thanou, absent, the race had become widely open in the final. The start was notably uneven as Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova and Jamaica's Sherone Simpson jumped into upright running positions quickly from the blocks, while Simpson's Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell and American favorite Lauryn Williams got out behind. Campbell further seemed to stumble while Williams powerfully overstride from last into the lead in the middle of the track by the halfway mark. Simpson faded quickly from her fast start being overtaken by Belarusian sprinter Yulia Nestsiarenka, who attempted to find her stride with just 30 metres into the race on the outside. While Williams and Campbell found their stride to maintain a commanding lead towards the 60-metre mark, Nestsiarenka held off a late charge to continue her march past the field and produce a storming finish with a Belarusian record of 10.92 seconds, making her the nation's first Olympic champion in this event.^[1] Following an unexpected victory from Nestsiarenka, Williams edged the fast closing Campbell for a silver medal by a hundredth of a second, finishing at 10.96.^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.49 s	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
Olympic record	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.62 s	Seoul, South Korea	24 September 1988

No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the women's 200 metres, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 11.30 seconds or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 11.40 seconds or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 20 August 2004	10:50 20:10	Round 1 Quarterfinals
Saturday, 21 August 2004	20:20 22:55	Semifinals Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: The first three finishers in each heat (Q) plus the next eight fastest overall runners (q) qualified for the next round.^[4]

Heat 1

Wind: +0.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	2	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	0.232	11.20	Q
2	3	Véronique Mang	France	0.186	11.24	Q, PB
3	8	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	0.189	11.30	Q
4	7	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	0.164	11.37	q
5	5	Liliana Allen	Mexico	0.154	11.42	q, SB
6	1	Geraldine Pillay	South Africa	0.178	11.44
7	6	Tit Linda Sou	Cambodia	0.235	13.47	PB
8	4	Katura Marae	Vanuatu		13.49	SB

Heat 2

Wind: +0.9 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	3	Yulia Nestsiarenka	Belarus	0.240	10.94	Q, NR
2	4	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	0.195	11.14	Q
3	2	Larisa Kruglova	Russia	0.207	11.23	Q, =PB
4	6	Guzel Khubbieva	Uzbekistan	0.153	11.31	q
5	5	Rakia Al-Gassra	Bahrain	0.250	11.49	NR
6	7	Winneth Dube	Zimbabwe	0.211	11.56
7	1	Evangeleen Ikelap	Federated States of Micronesia	0.221	13.50	=PB
8	8	Danah Al-Nasrallah	Kuwait		13.92	NR

Heat 3

Wind: −0.7 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	7	Lauryn Williams	United States	0.247	11.16	Q
2	1	Irina Khabarova	Russia	0.154	11.32	Q
3	4	Fana Ashby	Trinidad and Tobago	0.177	11.43	Q
4	8	Affoué Amandine Allou	Ivory Coast	0.182	11.46
5	2	Melisa Murillo	Colombia	0.185	11.67
6	6	Elena Bobrovskaya	Kyrgyzstan	0.180	11.76
7	5	Ngerak Florencio	Palau	0.222	12.76	PB
8	3	Aminata Kamissoko	Mauritania	0.179	13.49

Heat 4

Wind: −0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	8	Yuliya Tabakova	Russia	0.217	11.22	Q
2	5	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	0.173	11.27	Q
3	2	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	0.138	11.37	Q, SB
4	6	Bettina Müller	Austria	0.162	11.39	q
5	1	Johanna Manninen	Finland	0.157	11.45
6	7	Sina Schielke	Germany	0.194	11.46
7	4	Kaitinano Mwemweata	Kiribati	0.257	13.07	PB
8	3	Philaylack Sackpraseuth	Laos		13.42

Heat 5

Wind: −0.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	1	LaTasha Colander	United States	0.178	11.31	Q
2	7	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	0.203	11.36	Q
3	2	Natasha Mayers	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.158	11.45	Q
4	4	Tetyana Tkalich	Ukraine	0.210	11.58
5	6	Basma Al-Eshosh	Jordan	0.199	12.09	NR
6	8	Aleksandra Vojnevska	North Macedonia	0.193	12.15
7	3	Li Xuemei	China	0.190	12.21
8	5	Jenny Keni	Solomon Islands		12.76

Heat 6

Wind: −0.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	1	Veronica Campbell	Jamaica	0.166	11.17	Q
2	4	Zhanna Block	Ukraine	0.186	11.27	Q
3	6	Gail Devers	United States	0.215	11.29	Q
4	7	La Verne Jones	Virgin Islands	0.246	11.38	q
5	3	Agne Eggerth	Lithuania	0.177	11.44
6	8	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	0.158	12.05
7	2	Robina Muqim Yaar	23x15px Afghanistan	0.241	14.14	NR
8	5	Fartun Abukar Omar	Somalia		14.29	PB

Heat 7

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	6	Vida Anim	Ghana	0.174	11.14	Q, NR
1	2	Christine Arron	France	0.172	11.14	Q
3	1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	0.148	11.18	Q
4	4	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	0.165	11.40	q
5	7	Rosemar Coelho Neto	Brazil	0.237	11.43	q
6	3	Mae Koime	Papua New Guinea	0.195	12.00	NR
7	8	Hawanatu Bangura	Sierra Leone	0.176	12.11
8	5	Alaa Jassim	Iraq		12.70

Heat 8

Wind: −0.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	0.159	11.16	Q
2	3	Abi Oyepitan	Great Britain	0.181	11.23	Q
3	8	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	0.208	11.30	Q
4	2	Delphine Atangana	Cameroon	0.166	11.40	q
5	7	Viktoriya Koviyreva	Kazakhstan	0.207	11.62
6	5	Marine Ghazaryan	Armenia	0.177	12.29
7	6	Carol Mokola	Zambia	0.210	12.35