2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres

The women's 100 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on .Start list (Archived version)

Summary Going into the competition, Elaine Thompson could be nothing but the hot favourite to win the title. She was the Olympic Champion from Rio and the world leader by a huge margin. Defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did not compete as she expected her first child. Returning silver medallist Dafne Schippers did not seem to be in her best shape, while the bronze medallist from 2015, Tori Bowie was expected to be among the medal contenders.

In the first semi-final, Marie-Josée Ta Lou won by 0.11 seconds over Dafne Schippers. Elaine Thompson proved why she was the favourite, winning her semi-final in 10.84 seconds, the fastest time of the day, ahead of Rosângela Santos who broke the South American continental record, while Bowie ran 10.91 seconds to win the third semi-final.

In the final, Ta Lou established an early lead. Thompson had the slowest reaction to the gun and failed to get into contention. Bowie, who had been closing on the leader, leaned early for her dip at the line, winning and then stumbling to the track. Returning silver medallist Dafne Schippers took bronze.

Bowie's injury at the end of the race caused her to drop out of the 200 metres.

Records Records before the competition:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld10.49Florence Griffith-Joyner16 Jul 1988Indianapolis, United StatesChampionship10.70Marion JonesSeville, SpainWorld leading10.71Elaine Thompson23 Jun 2017Kingston, JamaicaAfrican10.78Murielle Ahouré11 Jun 2016Montverde, United StatesAsian10.79Li Xuemei18 Oct 1997Shanghai, ChinaNACAC10.49Florence Griffith-Joyner16 Jul 1988Indianapolis, United StatesSouth American10.99Ángela Tenorio22 Jul 2015Toronto, CanadaEuropean10.73Christine Arron19 Aug 1998Budapest, HungaryOceanian11.11Melissa Breen9 Feb 2014Canberra, Australia

Records set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date South American10.91Rosângela Santos6 Aug 2017BrazilianCook Islands12.18Patricia Taea5 Aug 2017

Qualification standard The standard for automatic qualification was 11.26 s.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was: Date Time Round5 August 11:45 Heats6 August 19:10 Semifinals6 August 21:50 Final

Results

Heats The first round took place on 5 August in six heats:

Heat 1 2 3 4 5 6 Start time 11:44 11:53 12:03 12:09 12:20 12:30Wind (m/s) +1.3 +0.8 −0.3 0.0 −0.1 +0.6 Photo finishlinklinklinklinklinklink

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next six fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The consolidated results were:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 3 Gina Lückenkemper 10.95 , 2 4 7 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 11.00 3 1 8 Murielle Ahouré 11.04 4 5 9 Rosângela Santos 11.04 , 5 2 2 Elaine Thompson 11.05 6 3 4 Tori Bowie 11.05 7 4 2 Dafne Schippers 11.08 8 1 5 Jura Levy 11.09 9 5 2 Mujinga Kambundji 11.14 10 5 7 Michelle-Lee Ahye 11.14 11 2 5 Crystal Emmanuel 11.14 , 12 1 2 Asha Philip 11.14 , 13 6 9 Daryll Neita 11.15 14 6 4 Deajah Stevens 11.17 15 6 3 Natasha Morrison 11.21 16 6 5 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 11.21 17 3 8 Blessing Okagbare 11.22 18 6 6 Ewa Swoboda 11.24 , 19 4 9 Carina Horn 11.28 20 2 3 Ariana Washington 11.28 21 5 3 Simone Facey 11.29 22 4 3 Salomé Kora 11.30 23 3 9 Ivet Lalova-Collio 11.31 24 3 2 Desiree Henry 11.32 25 3 6 Ángela Tenorio 11.33 26 2 6 Wei Yongli 11.37 27 1 4 Toea Wisil 11.41 28 4 8 Carole Zahi 11.41 29 6 8 Andrea Purica 11.43 30 1 9 Naomi Sedney 11.43 31 2 7 Khalifa St. Fort 11.44 32 3 5 Jamile Samuel 11.52 33 2 4 Orphée Neola 11.58 34 4 5 Narcisa Landazuri 11.59 35 2 8 Charlotte Wingfield 11.82 36 5 8 Leya Buchanan 11.84 37 1 7 Loi Im Lan 12.00 38 5 6 Dutee Chand 12.07 39 6 2 Cecilia Bouele 12.15 40 3 7 Patricia Taea 12.18 41 1 6 Yelena Ryabova 12.27 42 5 4 Gorete Semedo 12.46 43 4 6 Rechelle Meade 12.67 44 4 4 Hereiti Bernardino 12.88 45 6 7 Zarinae Sapong 13.29 46 3 3 Marie-Charlotte Gastaud 13.52 5 5 Tatjana Pinto

Semifinals The semifinals took place on 6 August in three heats:

Heat 1 2 3 Start time 19:10 19:19 19:28Wind (m/s) +0.8 −0.2 +0.2 Photo finishlinklinklink

The first two in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The consolidated results were:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Elaine Thompson 10.84 2 1 7 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 10.87 , 3 2 6 Rosângela Santos 10.91 , 4 3 4 Tori Bowie 10.91 5 1 6 Dafne Schippers 10.98 6 3 7 Murielle Ahouré 10.99 7 3 9 Michelle-Lee Ahye 11.04 8 1 2 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 11.07 9 3 5 Blessing Okagbare 11.08 10 2 7 Mujinga Kambundji 11.11 11 2 5 Crystal Emmanuel 11.14 12 3 8 Natasha Morrison 11.15 13 1 4 Daryll Neita 11.16 14 3 6 Gina Lückenkemper 11.16 15 1 9 Jura Levy 11.19 16 3 2 Asha Philip 11.19 17 1 3 Simone Facey 11.23 18 2 3 Desiree Henry 11.24 19 1 8 Ivet Lalova-Collio 11.25 20 2 9 Carina Horn 11.26 21 2 8 Ariana Washington 11.29 22 3 3 Salomé Kora 11.31 23 1 5 Deajah Stevens 11.32 24 2 2 Ewa Swoboda 11.35

Final The final took place on 6 August at 21:51. The wind was +0.1 metres per second and the results were (photo finish):

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 Tori Bowie 10.85 4 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 10.86 = 9 Dafne Schippers 10.96 4 8 Murielle Ahouré 10.98 5 6 Elaine Thompson 10.98 6 3 Michelle-Lee Ahye 11.01 7 5 Rosângela Santos 11.06 8 2 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 11.09

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