Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

The women's 100 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 12 and 13 August at the Olympic Stadium.^[1] The winning margin was 0.12 seconds. The winner, Elaine Thompson from Jamaica, had the second slowest reaction time in the final.

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Interior view of the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, where the Women's 100m took place.
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	12 August 2016 (Preliminary round & heats) 13 August 2016 (semi-final & final)
Competitors	80 from 56 nations
Winning time	10.71
Medalists
Elaine Thompson  Jamaica Tori Bowie  United States Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce  Jamaica
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Summary

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was the defending Olympic champion from 2012 and entered the competition having won five of the last six global championships. At eighth in the year's rankings, she was not in peak form resulting from her toe injury. Elaine Thompson had beaten her at the Jamaican Championships with a world-leading and national record-equalling 10.70 seconds. American champion English Gardner was the next fastest and the two other American entrants, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie, shared third on the world rankings with African record breaker Murielle Ahouré at 10.78 seconds. Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers was also a strong entrant.^[2]

Charlotte Wingfield of Malta was comfortably the fastest qualifier in the preliminaries at 11.86 seconds. Cecilia Bouele of Congo was the only other athlete under 12 seconds in that round.^[3] In the first round proper Fraser-Pryce demonstrated her form with 10.96 seconds to top qualifying. Trinidad and Tobago's Michelle-Lee Ahye was the next fastest heat winner in eleven seconds dead, while all the top runners progressed.^[4] The semi-final round excised Murielle Ahouré and Tianna Bartoletta. Earlier in the season, both had run 10.78 and are tied for the fourteenth-fastest in history. Fraser-Pryce and Thompson were the fastest in 10.88 but only eight hundredths separated the finalists.^[5]

In the final, Tori Bowie reacted the fastest, but Elaine Thompson got the best start. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has previously gained the edge from her exceptional start, but at best she was even with Thompson, which Thompson expanded upon for the win. For her fast reaction, Bowie was a step behind in the early stages of the race but made a late rush to catch Fraser-Pryce just before the line for silver. After an injured toe during most of the season, it was Fraser-Pryce's season best for bronze.^[6] Thompson's time 10.71 would have been good enough to be the fifth time in history, had she not already run 10.70 at the Jamaican Olympic Trials earlier in the season to tie Fraser-Pryce for fourth.^[7]

The medals were presented by Nawal El Moutawakel, IOC member, Morocco and Frankie Fredericks, Council Member of the IAAF.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)	10.49	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
Olympic record		10.62	Seoul, Korea	24 September 1988
2016 World leading	Elaine Thompson (JAM)	10.70	Kingston, Jamaica	1 July 2016

Area	Time (s)	Wind	Athlete	Nation
Africa (records)	10.78	+1.6	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast
Asia (records)	10.79	+0.0	Li Xuemei	China
Europe (records)	10.73	+2.0	Christine Arron	France
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	10.49 WR	+0.0	Florence Griffith Joyner	United States
Oceania (records)	11.11	+1.9	Melissa Breen	Australia
	11.11	+0.0	Denise Robertson	Australia
South America (records)	10.99	+0.9	Angela Tenorio	Ecuador

The following national records were established during the competition:

Country	Athlete	Round	Time	Notes
Afghanistan	Kamia Yousufi (AFG)	Preliminaries	14.02 s
Cape Verde	Lidiane Lopes (CPV)	Preliminaries	12.38 s
Saudi Arabia	Kariman Abuljadayel (KSA)	Preliminaries	14.61 s

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 12 August 2016	11:55 22:40	Preliminaries Round 1
Saturday, 13 August 2016	21:00 22:37	Semifinals Final

Results

Preliminaries

The preliminary round of the competition featured athletes who had not achieved the required qualifying time for the event. Athletes who had achieved that time received a bye into the first round proper.

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Preliminary Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Hafsatu Kamara	Sierra Leone	0.148	12.24	Q
2	7	Sisila Seavula	Fiji	0.143	12.34	Q
3	9	Regine Tugade	Guam	0.156	12.52
4	8	Makoura Keita	Guinea	0.150	12.66	PB
5	3	Shirin Akter	Bangladesh	0.166	12.99
6	4	Mariana Cress	Marshall Islands	0.206	13.20
7	2	Liliana Neto	Angola	0.136	13.58
8	6	Kamia Yousufi	Afghanistan	0.216	14.02	NR
				Wind: +0.9 m/s

Preliminary Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Sunayna Wahi	Suriname	0.172	12.09	Q
2	7	Patricia Taea	Cook Islands	0.160	12.30	Q
3	8	Mazoon Al-alawi	Oman	0.161	12.30	q
4	2	Lidiane Lopes	Cape Verde	0.154	12.38	NR
5	3	Phumlile Ndzinisa	Swaziland	0.137	12.49
6	5	Taine Halasima	Tonga	0.199	12.80
7	6	Laenly Phoutthavong	Laos	0.186	12.82	PB
8	4	Lerissa Henry	Federated States of Micronesia	0.163	13.53
				Wind: −0.2 m/s

Preliminary Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta	0.144	11.86	Q
2	4	Cecilia Bouele	Republic of the Congo	0.165	11.98	Q
3	9	Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli	Malaysia	0.151	12.12	q
4	7	Prenam Pesse	Togo	0.189	12.38
5	5	Denika Kassim	Comoros	0.192	12.53
6	2	Jordan Mageo	American Samoa	0.173	13.72
7	8	Kariman Abuljadayel	Saudi Arabia	0.205	14.61
8	6	Karitaake Tewaaki	Kiribati	0.185	14.70
				Wind: −0.2 m/s

Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 8 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	8	Desirèe Henry	Great Britain	0.126	11.08	Q
2	6	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast	0.159	11.17	Q
3	9	Natalia Pohrebniak	Ukraine	0.130	11.30	q
4	2	Lorene Dorcas Bazolo	Portugal	0.142	11.43
5	3	Wei Yongli	China	0.154	11.48
6	5	Hajar Alkhaldi	Bahrain	0.122	11.59
7	7	Rima Kashafutdinova	Kazakhstan	0.174	11.84
8	4	Sisila Seavula	Fiji	0.149	12.48
				Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	0.143	11.16	Q
2	5	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	0.164	11.31	Q
3	6	Khamica Bingham	Canada	0.137	11.41
4	7	Flings Owusu-Agyapong	Ghana	0.135	11.43
5	4	Gloria Asumnu	Nigeria	0.139	11.55
6	3	Evelyn Rivera	Colombia	0.161	11.59
7	8	Brenessa Thompson	Guyana	0.162	11.72
8	2	Hafsatu Kamara	Sierra Leone	0.150	12.22
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Tori Bowie	United States	0.142	11.13	Q
2	5	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	0.154	11.16	Q
3	8	Angela Tenorio	Ecuador	0.150	11.35	q
4	4	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	0.141	11.43
5	6	Eliecith Palacios	Colombia	0.172	11.48
6	3	Tahesia Harrigan-Scott	British Virgin Islands	0.149	11.54
7	7	Khrystyna Stuy	Ukraine	0.146	11.57
8	2	Cecilia Bouele	Republic of the Congo	0.149	12.18
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	0.146	10.96	Q
2	5	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	0.156	11.01	Q
3	2	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	0.149	11.19	q
4	8	Narcisa Landazuri	Ecuador	0.117	11.38	q
5	4	Tynia Gaither	Bahamas	0.154	11.56
6	7	Ramona Papaioannou	Cyprus	0.140	11.61
7	6	Ruddy Zang Milama	Gabon	0.151	11.67
8	3	Sunayna Wahi	Suriname	0.117	12.25
				Wind: −0.3 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	0.148	11.23	Q
2	8	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	0.149	11.24	Q
3	6	Olesya Povkh	Ukraine	0.132	11.39	q
4	5	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	Trinidad and Tobago	0.141	11.42
5	2	Jennifer Madu	Nigeria	0.163	11.61
6	3	Nigina Sharipova	Uzbekistan	0.135	11.68
7	4	Dutee Chand	India	0.151	11.69
8	7	Patricia Taea	Cook Islands	0.159	12.41
				Wind: −0.7 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	0.153	11.00	Q
2	7	Christania Williams	Jamaica	0.170	11.27	Q
3	4	Asha Philip	Great Britain	0.120	11.34	q
4	2	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	0.162	11.43
5	6	Viktoriya Zyabkina	Kazakhstan	0.150	11.69
6	8	Marika Popowicz-Drapała	Poland	0.136	11.70
7	9	Iman Essa Jasim	Bahrain	0.161	11.72
8	3	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta	0.138	11.90
				Wind: ±0.0 m/s

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	0.174	11.21	Q
2	3	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	0.163	11.25	Q
3	4	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	0.138	11.35	q
4	8	Toea Wisil	Papua New Guinea	0.142	11.48
5	2	Olga Safronova	Kazakhstan	0.148	11.50
6	6	Alyssa Conley	South Africa	0.143	11.57
7	5	Melissa Breen	Australia	0.143	11.74
8	7	Mazoon Al-Alawi	Oman	0.199	12.43
				Wind: −1.0 m/s

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	English Gardner	United States	0.191	11.09	Q
2	4	Carina Horn	South Africa	0.158	11.32	Q
3	2	Ivet Lalova-Collio	Bulgaria	0.125	11.35	q
4	7	Daryll Neita	Great Britain	0.169	11.41
5	3	Rebekka Haase	Germany	0.175	11.47
6	9	Yuan Qiqi	China	0.143	11.56
7	5	Franciela Krasucki	Brazil	0.159	11.67
8	8	Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli	Malaysia	0.149	12.62
				Wind: −0.2 m/s

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	7	Tori Bowie	United States	0.165	10.90	Q
2	6	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	0.134	10.90	Q, SB
3	9	Christania Williams	Jamaica	0.166	10.96	q, PB
4	5	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast	0.156	11.01
5	3	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador	0.145	11.14
6	8	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	0.130	11.16
7	4	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	0.155	11.18
8	2	Olesya Povkh	Ukraine	0.126	11.29
				Wind: +1.0 m/s

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	0.151	10.88	Q, SB
2	4	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	0.146	10.90	Q
3	6	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	0.157	10.94	q, PB
4	7	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	0.141	11.00
5	9	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	0.133	11.23	SB
6	2	Marizol Landázuri	Ecuador	0.152	11.27
7	8	Nataliya Pohrebnyak	Ukraine	0.138	11.32
8	3	Asha Philip	Great Britain	0.124	11.33
				Wind: +0.3 m/s

Semifinal 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	0.156	10.88	Q
2	7	English Gardner	United States	0.158	10.90	Q
3	6	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	0.155	11.09
4	5	Desirèe Henry	Great Britain	0.129	11.09
5	3	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	0.146	11.20
6	9	Carina Horn	South Africa	0.149	11.20
7	8	Tatjana Pinto	Germany	0.175	11.32
-	2	Ivet Lalova-Collio	Bulgaria		DNS
				Wind: +0.6 m/s

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
	4	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	0.157	10.71
	5	Tori Bowie	United States	0.112	10.83
	6	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica	0.138	10.86	SB
4	3	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	0.136	10.86	PB
5	9	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	0.134	10.90
6	8	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago	0.132	10.92
7	7	English Gardner	United States	0.148	10.94
8	2	Christania Williams	Jamaica	0.163	11.80
				Wind: +0.5 m/s