Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres
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Results

All times shown are in seconds. The following abbreviations are used:

  • Q denotes qualification by place
  • q denotes qualification by time

  • PB denotes personal best
  • SB denotes season best
  • NR denotes national record


Round 1

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 10 fastest (q) advance to the Round 2.
Rank Heat Athlete Country Time Notes.
1 8 Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
11.13 Q
2 8 Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

 
11.17 Q
3 8 Daria Korczyńska
Daria Korczyńska
Daria Onyśko-Korczyńska is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Poland.She finished eighth in the 100 metres final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, and ninth one month later at the 2006 IAAF World Cup...

 
11.22 Q, PB
4 9 Evgeniya Polyakova  11.24 Q
5 1 Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold...

 
11.26 Q
6 10 Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

 
11.28 Q
7 1 Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye is a British sprinter of Ghanaian origin.-Athletics career:Kwakye won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with teammates Jade Lucas-Read, Amy Spencer and Vernicha James. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth...

 
11.30 Q
7 4 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

 
11.30 Q
9 10 Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Norway. She has been living in Norway since the age of nine....

 
11.32 Q, NR
10 5 Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

 
11.33 Q
10 7 Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...

 
11.33 Q
10 3 Muna Lee  11.33 Q
13 6 Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

 
11.35 Q
14 7 Montell Douglas
Montell Douglas
Montell Marcelle Douglas is a British sprinter and current British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05.-Athletics career:...

 
11.36 Q
15 2 Christine Arron  11.37 Q
16 2 Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

 
11.38 Q
17 4 Kelly Ann Baptiste  11.39 Q
17 8 Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza Murillo is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Colombia....

 
11.39 q
19 5 Yuliya Nestsiarenka  11.40 Q
20 10 Laverne Jones-Ferrette  11.41 Q
21 4 Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grinčikaitė is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a...

 
11.43 Q
21 3 Anita Pistone
Anita Pistone
Anita Pistone is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.Pistone represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed second in her first round heat after Muna Lee in a time of 11.43...

 
11.43 Q
23 3 Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva is an Uzbekistani sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Khubbieva represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Muna Lee and Anita Pistone in a time of 11.44 to advance...

 
11.44 Q
24 7 Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides Muñoz is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Cuba.Benavides represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Ivet Lalova and Montell Douglas in a time of...

 
11.45 Q, SB
25 9 Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Barbados.Bailey lives in Barbados and is coached by Keith Thornhill,her agent is Andre Thomas of [Athletes.first Sports Management http://www.athletes-first.de/]She won the bronze medal in 200 metres at the [2006...

 
11.46 Q
25 2 Tahesia Harrigan
Tahesia Harrigan
Tahesia Harrigan is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands.Harrigan was born in the British Virgin Islands to Doris Harrigan. Harrigan's illustrious track and field career began in Tallahassee, Florida...

 
11.46 Q, SB
27 6 Vida Anim
Vida Anim
Vida Anim is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. Together with Mavis Akoto, Monica Twum and Vida Nsiah she holds the Ghanaian record in 4 x 100 metres relay with 43.19 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Anim represented Ghana at the...

 
11.47 Q
28 3 Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Basseterre....

 
11.48 q
28 9 Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
11.48 Q
30 10 Barbara Pierre
Barbara Pierre
Barbara Pierre is a Haiti-born American track and field sprint athlete.Pierre represented Haiti at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed fourth in her first round heat, which normally meant elimination. However, her time of 11.52 was among the ten...

 
11.52 q
31 4 Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....

 
11.53 q
32 10 Natalya Murinovich  11.55 q
32 8 Sasha Springer-Jones
Sasha Springer-Jones
Sasha Springer-Jones is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....

 
11.55 q, SB
34 2 Lucimar de Moura
Lucimar de Moura
Lucimar Aparecida de Moura is a female track and field athlete from Brazil, who competes in the sprint events...

 
11.60 q
34 9 Nataliya Pohrebnyak  11.60 q
36 7 Franca Idoko  11.61 q
36 3 Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

 
11.61 q
38 6 Ruddy Zang Milama  11.62 Q
39 1 Myriam Leonie Mani
Myriam Léonie Mani
Myriam Léonie Mani is a Cameroonian athlete who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.Mani represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Torri Edwards and Jeanette Kwakye in a time of 11.64 to advance to the...

 
11.64 Q
40 2 Sherry Fletcher
Sherry Fletcher
Sherry Ingrid Veronica Fletcher is a female track and field sprinter from Grenada, who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time is 22.67 seconds, achieved in June 2007 in Sacramento. This is the current Grenadian record...

 
11.65
40 6 Laura Turner
Laura Turner
Laura Kate Turner is a British sprinter who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, in the 4 x 100m relay and the 100m....

 
11.65
40 5 Thi Huong Vu
Thi Huong Vu
Vu Thi Huong is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Vietnam.Huong won the silver medal in women's 100m event and the bronze medal in women's 200m event at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championship in Amman, Jordan...

 
11.65 Q
43 1 Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Bulgaria.Eftimova represented Bulgaria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 4th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
11.67
44 8 Mae Koime
Mae Koime
Mae Koime is a Papua New Guinean sprinter.Described as "the fastest ever female sprinter in Papua New Guinea", as Papua New Guinea's "star sprinter", and as Oceania's "fastest woman", Koime has represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and the 2003, 2005 and...

 
11.68
45 9 Tezdzhan Naimova
Tezdzhan Naimova
Tezdzhan Naimova is a Bulgarian sprinter. She specializes in both the 60, 100 and 200 metres.-Junior career:Born in Parvomay, Naimova took up athletics at the age of 10 and was initially trained by Tanyo Tanev, but changed to former triple jumper Stoyko Tsonov, who has been her coach since seventh...

 
11.70
46 5 Halimat Ismaila
Halimat Ismaila
Halimat Ismaila is a Nigerian athlete who won a bronze medal in 4x100 metre relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 
11.72
47 5 Chisato Fukushima
Chisato Fukushima
Chisato Fukushima is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan. She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres....

 
11.74
48 4 Affoué Amandine Allou
Affoué Amandine Allou
Amandine Allou Affoué is a Côte d'Ivoire sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Allou represented Côte d'Ivoire at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint...

 
11.75
49 7 Pia Tajnikar
Pia Tajnikar
Pia Tajnikar is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Slovenia.Tajnikar represented Slovenia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the 100 metres sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
11.82
49 9 Jutamass Thavoncharoen  11.82 SB
51 1 Wang Jing
Wang Jing (athlete)
Wang Jing is a female Chinese athletics sprinter.Wang represented China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed fifth in a time of 11.87 which was not enough to advance to the second round...

 
11.87
52 7 Ahamada Feta
Ahamada Feta
Ahamada Feta is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Comoros.Feta represented Comoros at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed sixth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...

 
11.88
53 4 Valentina Nazarova
Valentina Nazarova
Valentina Nazarova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Turkmenistan.Nazarova represented Turkmenistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed sixth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the...

 
11.94
54 5 Sonia Williams
Sonia Williams
Sonia Olivia Williams is a female track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Antigua and Barbuda.Williams represented Antigua and Barbuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed sixth in her heat without advancing to the second...

 
12.04
55 6 Nirinaharifidy Ramilijaona
Nirinaharifidy Ramilijaona
Nirinaharifidy Ramilijaona is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Madagascar.Ramilijaona represented Madagascar at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran...

 
12.07
56 6 Timicka Clarke
Timicka Clarke
Timicka Clarke is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.33 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in St...

 
12.16
57 10 Charlene Attard
Charlene Attard
Charlene Attard is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Malta.Attard represented Malta at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed sixth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...

 
12.20
58 7 Fatou Tiyana
Fatou Tiyana
Fatou Tiyana is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for The Gambia.Tiyana represented Gambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
12.25 PB
59 2 Dana Abdulrazak  12.36 PB
60 3 Kin Yee Wan  12.37
61 2 Sadaf Siddiqui
Sadaf Siddiqui
Sadaf Siddiqui is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Pakistan.Siddiqui represented Pakistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a...

 
12.41
62 7 Beauty Nazmun Nahar
Beauty Nazmun Nahar
Beauty Nazmun Nahar is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Bangladesh.Nazmun Nahar represented Bangladesh at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed eighth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the...

 
12.52
63 10 Michaela Kargbo
Michaela Kargbo
Michaela Kargbo is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Sierra Leone.Kargbo represented Sierra Leone at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance...

 
12.54
64 8 Hiniksia Albertine Ndikert  12.55
65 8 Franka Magali
Franka Magali
Franka Magali is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

 
12.57 PB
66 10 Milena Milasevic
Milena Milasevic
Milena Milasevic is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Montenegro.Milasevic represented Montenegro at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed eighth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance...

 
12.65
67 6 Montserrat Pujol  12.73
68 1 Ani Khachikyan
Ani Khachikyan
Ani Khachikyan is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Armenia. She is the national junior record holder for the 100 metres event....

 
12.76
69 1 Ivana Rozhman  12.92
70 4 Titlinda Sou  12.98 PB
71 3 Gharid Ghrouf
Gharid Ghrouf
Gharid Ghrouf is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Palestine.Ghrouf represented Palestine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round...

 
13.07 NR
72 6 Jessica Aguilera
Jessica Aguilera
Jessica Aguilera is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nicaragua.Aguilera represented Nicaragua at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed eighth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in...

 
13.15
72 10 Chandra Kala Thapa
Chandra Kala Thapa
Chandra Kala Thapa is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nepal.Thapa represented Nepal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...

 
13.15
74 1 Peoria Koshiba
Peoria Koshiba
Peoria Koshiba is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Palau.Koshiba represented Palau at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed eighth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...

 
13.18
75 6 Pauline Kwalea
Pauline Kwalea
Pauline Kwalea is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for the Solomon Islands.Kwalea represented the Solomon Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the...

 
13.28 PB
76 5 Cora Alicto
Cora Alicto
Cora Alicto is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Guam.Alicto represented Guam at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 13.31...

 
13.31 PB
76 3 Elis Lapenmal
Elis Lapenmal
Elis Lapenmal is a ni-Vanuatu sprinter.Competing at the World Athletics Championships in 2007, Lapenmal ran the 100 metres in 13.10 seconds...

 
13.31
78 9 Waseelah Saad
Waseelah Saad
Waseelah Fadhl Saad is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Yemen.Saad represented Yemen at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
13.60 NR
79 3 Bounkou Camara
Bounkou Camara
Bounkou Camara is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Mauritania.Camara represented Mauritania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a...

 
13.69
80 9 Maria Ikelap
Maria Ikelap
Maria Ikelap is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for the Federated States of Micronesia....

 
13.73 SB
81 9 Philaylack Sackpaseuth
Philaylack Sackpaseuth
Philaylack Sackpaseuth is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Laos.Sackpaseuth represented Laos at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a...

 
13.86
82 1 Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi
Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi
Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Oman.Al-Yaqoubi represented Oman at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
13.90
83 2 Asenate Manoa
Asenate Manoa
Asenate Manoa is a Tuvaluan athlete who represented Tuvalu at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was the first runner and first female representative of Tuvalu at the Olympic Games....

 
14.05 NR
84 4 Fathia Ali Bourrale
Fathia Ali Bourrale
Fathia Ali Bourrale is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Djibouti.Ali Bourrale represented Djibouti at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed eighth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the...

 
14.29
85 5 Robina Muqimyar
Robina Muqimyar
Robina Jalali, also known as Robina Muqimyar is a former Olympic athlete who represented Afghanistan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and in 30 international events competing in the 100 meter sprint....

 
14.80

Round 2

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.
Rank Heat Athlete Country Time Notes
1 4 Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

 
10.98 Q
2 2 Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
11.02 Q
3 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

 
11.06 Q
4 4 Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

 
11.07 Q
5 2 Muna Lee  11.08 Q
6 4 Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

 
11.10 Q
7 1 Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...

 
11.13 Q, SB
8 4 Yulia Nestsiarenka  11.14 q, SB
9 2 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

 
11.16 Q
10 1 Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye is a British sprinter of Ghanaian origin.-Athletics career:Kwakye won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with teammates Jade Lucas-Read, Amy Spencer and Vernicha James. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth...

 
11.18 Q, PB
11 3 Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

 
11.21 Q
12 3 Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
11.28 Q
13 5 Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold...

 
11.31 Q
14 3 Vida Anim
Vida Anim
Vida Anim is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. Together with Mavis Akoto, Monica Twum and Vida Nsiah she holds the Ghanaian record in 4 x 100 metres relay with 43.19 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Anim represented Ghana at the...

 
11.32 Q
15 5 Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grinčikaitė is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a...

 
11.33 Q, PB
16 3 Christine Arron  11.36
16 4 Tahesia Harrigan
Tahesia Harrigan
Tahesia Harrigan is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands.Harrigan was born in the British Virgin Islands to Doris Harrigan. Harrigan's illustrious track and field career began in Tallahassee, Florida...

 
11.36 SB
18 2 Montell Douglas
Montell Douglas
Montell Marcelle Douglas is a British sprinter and current British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05.-Athletics career:...

 
11.38
19 2 Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides Muñoz is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Cuba.Benavides represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Ivet Lalova and Montell Douglas in a time of...

 
11.40 SB
19 5 Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...

 
11.40 Q
21 3 Daria Korczyńska
Daria Korczyńska
Daria Onyśko-Korczyńska is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Poland.She finished eighth in the 100 metres final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, and ninth one month later at the 2006 IAAF World Cup...

 
11.41
22 2 Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Baptiste
Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.-Junior:...

 
11.42
23 1 Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Basseterre....

 
11.45
23 5 Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Norway. She has been living in Norway since the age of nine....

 
11.45
25 4 Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett
Semoy Hackett is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....

 
11.46
26 4 Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva is an Uzbekistani sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Khubbieva represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Muna Lee and Anita Pistone in a time of 11.44 to advance...

 
11.49
26 3 Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

 
11.49
28 2 Natalya Murinovich  11.51
29 1 LaVerne Jones-Ferrette  11.55
29 2 Nataliya Pohrebnyak  11.55
31 5 Barbara Pierre
Barbara Pierre
Barbara Pierre is a Haiti-born American track and field sprint athlete.Pierre represented Haiti at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed fourth in her first round heat, which normally meant elimination. However, her time of 11.52 was among the ten...

 
11.56
32 5 Anita Pistone
Anita Pistone
Anita Pistone is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.Pistone represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed second in her first round heat after Muna Lee in a time of 11.43...

 
11.56
33 5 Ruddy Zang Milama  11.59
34 1 Myriam Léonie Mani
Myriam Léonie Mani
Myriam Léonie Mani is a Cameroonian athlete who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.Mani represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Torri Edwards and Jeanette Kwakye in a time of 11.64 to advance to the...

 
11.65
35 3 Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza
Yomara Hinestroza Murillo is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Colombia....

 
11.66
35 1 Ene Franca Idoko
Ene Franca Idoko
Ene Franca Idoko is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time over 100 m is 11.22 seconds, achieved in July 2007 in Athens. Her personal best time over 60 m is 7.09 seconds, achieved in February 2008 in Chemnitz.She won the bronze medal with the African 4 x 100...

 
11.66
37 1 Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Barbados.Bailey lives in Barbados and is coached by Keith Thornhill,her agent is Andre Thomas of [Athletes.first Sports Management http://www.athletes-first.de/]She won the bronze medal in 200 metres at the [2006...

 
11.67
37 4 Lucimar Aparecida de Moura  11.67
39 3 Vu Thi Huong  11.70
40 5 Sasha Springer  11.71

Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.
Rank Heat Athlete Country Time Notes
1 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

 
11.00 Q
2 2 Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

 
11.05 Q
3 1 Muna Lee  11.06 Q
4 1 Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

 
11.10 Q
5 1 Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
11.11 Q
6 2 Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold...

 
11.18 Q
7 2 Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye is a British sprinter of Ghanaian origin.-Athletics career:Kwakye won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with teammates Jade Lucas-Read, Amy Spencer and Vernicha James. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth...

 
11.19 Q
8 2 Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

 
11.22 Q
8 1 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

 
11.22
10 2 Yulia Nestsiarenka  11.26
11 2 Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

 
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12 2 Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...

 
11.38
13 2 Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
11.44
14 1 Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grincikaite
Lina Grinčikaitė is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a...

 
11.50
15 1 Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...

 
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15 1 Vida Anim
Vida Anim
Vida Anim is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. Together with Mavis Akoto, Monica Twum and Vida Nsiah she holds the Ghanaian record in 4 x 100 metres relay with 43.19 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Anim represented Ghana at the...

 
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Final

Rank Athlete Country Reaction Time Notes
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78...

 
0.190 10.78 PB
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
0.155 10.83
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...

 
0.232 10.83
4 Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

 
0.149 10.88
5 Muna Lee  0.234 10.92
6 Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye is a British sprinter of Ghanaian origin.-Athletics career:Kwakye won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with teammates Jade Lucas-Read, Amy Spencer and Vernicha James. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth...

 
0.161 10.99 PB
7 Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

 
0.167 11.04
8 Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold...

0.179 11.05
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