These are the official results of the women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Despite the presence of the world record holder Yordanka Donkova (who had her career peak four years earlier), Gail Devers came into this race as the favorite. Though her Olympic history shows her winning the 100 metres twice, the first time earlier in this Olympics, she primarily made her career as a hurdler. And true to form, Devers had a commanding lead in this race, until the final hurdle. Devers came up short and hit the hurdle, foot first, hard, knocking her off balance. She stumbled toward the finish line, falling on the last step, but still finished fifth, .001 out of fourth place. Voula Patoulidou was the gold medalist, followed by LaVonna Martin and Donkova.

Medalists

Records These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World record 12.21 Yordanka Donkova Stara Zagora (BUL) August 20, 1988 Olympic record 12.38 Yordanka Donkova Seoul (KOR) September 30, 1988

Final Wind: +0.4 m/s Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 5 Paraskevi Patoulidou 12.64 4 LaVonna Martin 12.69 6 Yordanka Donkova 12.70 4 3 Lynda Tolbert 12.75 5 2 Gail Devers 12.75 6 7 Aliuska López 12.87 7 8 Natalya Kolovanova 13.01 8 1 Odalys Adams 13.57

Semi finals Heat 1. Wind: -1.9 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Lynda Tolbert 13.10 2 Gail Devers 13.14 3 Natalya Kolovanova 13.15 4 Aliuska López 13.16 5 Anne Piquereau 13.32 6 Gillian Russell 13.35 7 Zhang Yu 13.39 8 Kristin Patzwahl 13.44 9 Brigitta Bukovec 13.68

Heat 2. Wind: +0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 LaVonna Martin 12.81 2 Yordanka Donkova 12.87 3 Voula Patoulidou 12.88 4 Odalys Adams 13.14 5 Marina Azyabina 13.22 6 Gabriele Roth 13.22 7 Dionne Rose 13.22 8 Cécile Cinelu 13.24— Lyudmila Narozhilenko

Quarterfinals Heat 1. Wind: -1.5 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 LaVonna Martin 12.82 2 Aliuska López 13.01 3 Gillian Russell 13.23 4 Marina Azyabina 13.26 5 Brigitta Bukovec 13.28 6 Zhang Yu 13.28 7 Katie Anderson 13.31 8 Sylvia Dethier 13.32

Heat 2. Wind: +1.4 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Yordanka Donkova 12.84 2 Lynda Tolbert 12.96 3 Voula Patoulidou 13.05 4 Natalya Kolovanova 13.06 5 Cécile Cinelu 13.07 6 Kristin Patzwahl 13.16 7 Dionne Rose 13.17 8 Liliana Nastase 13.33

Heat 3. Wind: -0.7 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Gail Devers 12.76 2 Lyudmila Narozhilenko 13.06 3 Anne Piquereau 13.17 4 Odalys Adams 13.26 5 Gabriele Roth 13.28 6 Zhu Yuqing 13.31 7 Jacqui Agyepong 13.36 8 Michelle Freeman 15.84

Heats Heat 1. Wind: -1.5 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Lyudmila Narozhilenko 13.04 2 Liliana Nastase 13.23 3 Cécile Cinelu 13.40 4 Brigitta Bukovec 13.45 5 María José Mardomingo 13.58 6 Anu Kaljurand 13.81 7 Eunice Barber 15.01— Yasmina Kettab-Azzizi

Heat 2. Wind: +0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Michelle Freeman 12.90 2 Kristin Patzwahl 13.11 3 Gail Devers 13.19 4 Nataliya Kolovanova 13.20 5 Zhu Yuqing 13.22 6 Lesley-Ann Skeete 13.42 7 Nguyễn Thị Thu Hằng 15.16

Heat 3. Wind: -0.4 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Yordanka Donkova 12.96 2 Aliuska López 13.08 3 Marina Azyabina 13.10 4 Jacqui Agyepong 13.25 5 Dionne Rose 13.29 6 Katie Anderson 13.33 7 Monique Ewanjé-Épée 13.73 8 Louisette Renee Thobi 14.37

Heat 4. Wind: +0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 LaVonna Martin 12.82 2 Gillian Russell 13.07 3 Sylvia Dethier 13.19 4 Zhang Yu 13.26 5 Nicole Ramalalanirina 13.40 6 Sriyani Kulawansa 13.55— Caren Jung — Julie Baumann

Heat 5. Wind: -0.7 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Lynda Tolbert 12.96 2 Anne Piquereau 13.11 3 Gabriele Roth 13.12 4 Voula Patoulidou 13.14 5 Odalys Adams 13.28 6 Kay Morley-Brown 13.44 7 Chan Sau Ying 13.88 8 Elizabeta Pavlovska 14.26

See also 1986 European World Championships 100m Hurdles (Stuttgart) 1987 Women's World Championships 100m Hurdles (Rome) 1988 Women's Olympic 100m Hurdles (Seoul) 1990 European World Championships 100m Hurdles (Split) 1991 Women's World Championships 100m Hurdles (Tokyo) 1993 Women's World Championships 100m Hurdles (Stuttgart) 1994 European World Championships 100m Hurdles (Helsinki)

References

External links Official Report Results