The Women's 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

2010 Commonwealth Games

The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. A total of 6,081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed in 21 sports and 272 events, making it the largest Commonwealth Games till date...

as part of the athletics programme

Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

The athletics competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held in New Delhi, India between 6 and 14 October. The track and field events took place between 6–12 October at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium while the marathon contests were held on a street course running through the city on 14...

 was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday 6 October and Thursday 7 October 2010.

The final was subject to some controversy. England

England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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's 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....

 and Australia

Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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's Sally Pearson had a simultaneous false start, but only Turner was initially disqualified, "on the grounds that her reaction time was the quicker". Turner refused to leave the track, and officials eventually authorised her to run "under protest", meaning that her time would not be recorded unless her disqualification was overturned. She finished last, and her time was not recorded. Pearson won the race, but admitted afterwards that she had "twitched first" out of the starting blocks, and England and Nigeria

Nigeria at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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 both requested that she be disqualified for her false start; her disqualification would enable Nigeria's 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...

 to claim gold, and England's Katherine Endacott to claim bronze. Pearson was disqualified, and expressed tearful disappointment at having been "told [she] was clear": "I did my victory lap with the flag. I was walking out to the medal ceremony and then I was called back. That's not right". Australia counter-appealed, unsuccessfully.

On 11 October it was reported that supposed gold medal winner Oludamola Osayomi was the first person to test positive for banned substances during the 2010 Games, returning a positive doping test for the stimulant methylhexaneamine. Osayomi was provisionally suspended pending the results of testing on her B sample. It was reported that the positive testing was the result of prescription medication for a toothache. If the B sample also tests positive Oludamola Osayomi will be stripped of her 100m gold medal and Natasha Mayers of St Vincent and the Grenadines will be promoted to the gold medal while English runner Katherine Endacott will be promoted to the silver medal (having originally placed fourth) and Cameroon's Bertille Atangana, who originally placed fifth will receive bronze.

Records

World Record	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner Florence Griffith-Joyner , also known as Flo-Jo was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the "fastest woman of all time" based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged...	USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S... , USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	16 July 1988
Games Record	10.91	Debbie Ferguson	BAH	Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...	29 July 2002

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	6		0.143	11.33	SB	Q
2	9		0.203	11.44	SB	Q
3	8		0.181	11.76		Q
4	4		0.176	11.76		Q
5	5		0.170	11.80	=PB	q
6	7		0.161	11.90	PB	q
7	3		0.231	12.27
8	2		0.175	12.37

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	2		0.188	11.47		Q
2	9		0.162	11.66		Q
3	5		0.176	11.71		Q
4	6		0.186	11.81		Q
5	3		0.174	12.00		q
6	7		0.287	12.38	SB
7	4		0.194	12.69
8	8		0.172	12.90

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	6		0.178	11.60		Q
2	9		0.260	11.69		Q
3	8		0.182	11.77		Q
4	2		0.207	12.00		Q
5	3		0.211	12.14
6	4		0.158	12.18
7	5		0.174	12.21
8	7		0.192	12.55	=PB

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	8		0.193	11.49		Q
2	6		0.148	11.53		Q
3	5		0.171	11.74		Q
4	2		0.178	11.94		Q
5	4		0.224	11.97		q
6	7		0.200	12.11
7	9		0.181	12.40
8	3		0.190	12.47

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	6		0.153	11.50		Q
2	8		0.186	11.50		Q
3	3		0.191	11.61		Q
4	4		0.218	11.90	NR	Q
5	2		0.185	12.03	PB
6	5		0.172	12.20	PB
7	7			13.10	NR

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	5		0.146	11.38		Q
2	6		0.174	11.45	PB	Q
3	7		0.226	11.57
4	4		0.181	11.58
5	9		0.184	11.78
6	3		0.178	12.01
7	2			12.03
	8			DQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	5		0.190	11.33		Q
2	7		0.136	11.42	SB	Q
3	6		0.161	11.49	PB	q
4	4		0.163	11.51		q
5	9		0.171	11.62
6	8		0.179	11.78
7	2		0.182	11.82
8	3		0.180	11.93

Semifinal 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	4		0.146	11.28	SB	Q
2	6		0.174	11.41		Q
3	5		0.220	11.52
4	7		0.137	11.55
5	8		0.173	11.61	=SB
6	9		0.189	11.86
7	3		0.188	11.89
8	2		0.235	12.01

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
	6		0.151	11.37
	8		0.191	11.44	PB
	9		0.155	11.48
4	2		0.160	11.52
5	3		0.135	11.56
	5			DQ
	4			DQ
	7			DQ

External links

• 2010 Commonwealth Games - Athletics