# 2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles

The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 23 and 24 July 2022. It was won by Tobi Amusan. Amusan set a world record of 12.12 seconds in the semi-final. She ran 12.06 to win the final, but that was not a world record because it was wind assisted.

## Summary

This was a dramatic event from the first heat to the final. In heat 1, defending champion Nia Ali was out in front early, with three to automatically qualify, Britany Anderson come up to challenge her over the last few hurdles. Ali clipped the ninth hurdle, started to lose her balance at full speed. She tried valiantly to jump over the final hurdle, but her lead leg never could get high enough, instead hooking the hurdle in the lane next to her, belonging to Anne Zagré. Ali was down on the track as the entire field ran past her.
After the disqualification, notably of Devon Allen earlier in the week, athletes commented on how they were being extra careful about their starting technique. Olympic Champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and world record holder Kendra Harrison had to battle back from slow starts to win their heats. Tobi Amusan took a hundredth off her African Record to be the fastest qualifier. In heat 4, Alaysha Johnson missed her step to the first hurdle, then pushed the second hurdle over to be disqualified. On the sixth hurdle Liz Clay tripped and rolled into the seventh hurdle. And after a protest, a seventh heat was created by disqualifying Ali for interfering with another athlete's hurdle, to allow Zagré a solo attempt to make a qualifying time. In that special heat, Zagré fell over the tenth hurdle and failed.
The first semi final saw Amusan make another improvement. With Harrison two lanes to her right, Amusan was out fast and kept pulling away. After crossing the line she looked up at the scoreboard, first happiness at winning the race, then surprise, then joy. Her time was 12.12, a new world record and the wind was legal +0.9. This distance was first introduced to major championship level in the 1972 Olympics. During the 1970's, when drug testing was less sophisticated and automatic timing was not required (until 1977), Grażyna Rabsztyn and other primarily Soviet bloc athletes took the world record from the first auto timed 12.48 down to 12.36 by 1980. Between 1986 and 1988, two Bulgarian athletes Ginka Zagorcheva and Yordanka Donkova inched the record down from 12.29 to Donkova's 12.21 which remained unchanged for almost 28 years until Harrison took 1/100 off. That too stood for another 6 years. In one day, Amusan improved the world record by 8 times the progress of 36 years and her personal best by almost a third of a second.
And the semi-finals were not over. Anderson ran 12.31 for a new national record and the #9 individual in history. Three others also set their national records and the entire top 16 set seasons bests, most of them personal bests. And the final was less than 2 hours later.
Amusan got out well in the final, but Anderson was next to her running the exact same cadence, with Alia Armstrong and Harrison inches behind. By the fourth hurdle, Amusan began to edge ahead while Harrison was going the other direction. Danielle Williams was gaining on Anderson. Within two hurdles, Amusan had daylight in front, Anderson, Armstrong, Williams and now Camacho-Quinn were dead even. Harrison hit the seventh hurdle, pushing over the eighth to be disqualified, Anderson and Camacho-Quinn separated from the lineup and Amusan was a metre and a half clear. They closed in on the line, Amusan raised her hands in victory after crossing the line, Anderson and Camacho-Quinn in a photo finish. Look at the time, 12.06 but no, the wind reading was +2.5 MPS, over the allowable so there would be no new world record. It was just the fastest time ever run. From the photo, Anderson was given silver by .005.

## Records

Before the competition records were as follows:
| Record | Athlete & Nat. | Perf. | Location | Date |
| World record | Kendra Harrison (USA) | 12.20 | London, Great Britain | 22 July 2016 |
| Championship record | Sally Pearson (AUS) | 12.28 | Daegu, South Korea | 3 September 2011 |
| World Leading | Kendra Harrison (USA) | 12.34 | Eugene, United States | 25 June 2022 |
| African Record | Tobi Amusan (NGR) | 12.41 | Paris, France | 18 June 2022 |
| Asian Record | Olga Shishigina (KAZ) | 12.44 | Luzern, Switzerland | 27 June 1995 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Kendra Harrison (USA) | 12.20 | London, Great Britain | 22 July 2016 |
| South American Record | Maurren Higa Maggi (BRA) | 12.71 | Manaus, Brazil | 19 May 2001 |
| European Record | Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.21 | Stara Zagora, Bulgaria | 20 August 1988 |
| Oceanian record | Sally Pearson (AUS) | 12.28 | Daegu, South Korea | 3 September 2011 |

## Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 12.84.

## Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
| Date | Time | Round |
| 23 July | 11:20 | Heats |
| 24 July | 17:05 | Semi-finals |
| 24 July | 19:00 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify to the semi-finals..
Wind: Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.4 m/s, Heat 3: +1.5 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: +0.5 m/s, Heat 6: -0.4 m/s, Heat 7: -0.1 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Tobi Amusan | Nigeria (NGR) | 12.40 | Q, AR |
| 2 | 5 | Alia Armstrong | United States (USA) | 12.48 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 12.52 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Britany Anderson | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.59 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Kendra Harrison | United States (USA) | 12.60 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | Cindy Sember | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 12.67 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Devynne Charlton | Bahamas (BAH) | 12.69 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | Pia Skrzyszowska | Poland (POL) | 12.70 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | Megan Tapper | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.73 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | Nadine Visser | Netherlands (NED) | 12.76 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | Michelle Jenneke | Australia (AUS) | 12.84 | Q, SB |
| 12 | 3 | Danielle Williams | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.87 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | Marione Fourie | South Africa (RSA) | 12.94 | Q |
| 14 | 1 | Michelle Harrison | Canada (CAN) | 12.95 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | Mako Fukube | Japan (JPN) | 12.96 | q |
| 16 | 3 | Sarah Lavin | Ireland (IRL) | 12.99 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | Noemi Zbären | Switzerland (SUI) | 13.00 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | Celeste Mucci | Australia (AUS) | 13.01 | q |
| 19 | 5 | Laëticia Bapté | France (FRA) | 13.03 | q |
| 20 | 1 | Mette Graversgaard | Denmark (DEN) | 13.04 | Q |
| 21 | 6 | Reetta Hurske | Finland (FIN) | 13.09 | q |
| 22 | 6 | Masumi Aoki | Japan (JPN) | 13.12 | q |
| 23 | 3 | Ditaji Kambundji | Switzerland (SUI) | 13.12 | q |
| 24 | 6 | Yoveinny Mota | Venezuela (VEN) | 13.12 | |
| 25 | 3 | Ebony Morrison | Liberia (LBR) | 13.12 | |
| 26 | 4 | Andrea Vargas | Costa Rica (CRC) | 13.12 | Q |
| 27 | 4 | Paola Vazquez | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 13.13 | |
| 28 | 2 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | France (FRA) | 13.15 | |
| 29 | 6 | Elisa Di Lazzaro | Italy (ITA) | 13.16 | |
| 30 | 1 | Greisys Roble | Cuba (CUB) | 13.24 | |
| 31 | 2 | Klaudia Siciarz | Poland (POL) | 13.27 | |
| 32 | 4 | Helena Jiranová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 13.37 | |
| 33 | 2 | Zoë Sedney | Netherlands (NED) | 13.38 | |
| 34 | 3 | Sidonie Fiadanantsoa | Madagascar (MAD) | 13.57 | |
| 35 | 1 | Naomi Akakpo | Togo (TOG) | 13.64 | |
| 36 | 7 | Anne Zagré | Belgium (BEL) | 14.05 | |
| 37 | 2 | Ketiley Batista | Brazil (BRA) | 14.22 | |
| | 5 | Mulern Jean | Haiti (HAI) | | DNF |
| | 1 | Nia Ali | United States (USA) | | DQ |
| | 4 | Liz Clay | Australia (AUS) | | DQ |
| | 4 | Alaysha Johnson | United States (USA) | | DQ |

### Semi-finals

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified to the final.
Wind: Heat 1: +0.9 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Tobi Amusan | Nigeria (NGR) | 12.12 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 1 | Kendra Harrison | United States (USA) | 12.27 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 3 | Britany Anderson | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.31 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 3 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 12.32 | Q, SB |
| 5 | 1 | Danielle Williams | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.41 | q, SB |
| 6 | 2 | Alia Armstrong | United States (USA) | 12.43 | Q, PB |
| 7 | 2 | Devynne Charlton | Bahamas (BAH) | 12.46 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 1 | Cindy Sember | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 12.50 | q, NR |
| 9 | 2 | Megan Tapper | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.52 | PB |
| 10 | 2 | Pia Skrzyszowska | Poland (POL) | 12.62 | =PB |
| 11 | 1 | Michelle Jenneke | Australia (AUS) | 12.66 (.656) | PB |
| 12 | 3 | Nadine Visser | Netherlands (NED) | 12.66 (.659) | SB |
| 13 | 1 | Ditaji Kambundji | Switzerland (SUI) | 12.70 | PB |
| 14 | 3 | Michelle Harrison | Canada (CAN) | 12.74 | PB |
| 15 | 1 | Andrea Vargas | Costa Rica (CRC) | 12.82 (.812) | SB |
| 16 | 1 | Mako Fukube | Japan (JPN) | 12.82 (.820) | NR |
| 17 | 3 | Sarah Lavin | Ireland (IRL) | 12.87 | |
| 18 | 3 | Laëticia Bapté | France (FRA) | 12.93 (.926) | |
| 19 | 2 | Marione Fourie | South Africa (RSA) | 12.93 (.927) | =PB |
| 20 | 3 | Noemi Zbären | Switzerland (SUI) | 12.94 | SB |
| 21 | 2 | Masumi Aoki | Japan (JPN) | 13.04 | |
| 22 | 2 | Mette Graversgaard | Denmark (DEN) | 13.05 | |
| 23 | 3 | Reetta Hurske | Finland (FIN) | 13.15 | |
| 24 | 2 | Celeste Mucci | Australia (AUS) | | DQ |

### Final

The final was started on 24 July at 19:01. The wind speed of +2.5 m/s was outside of the allowable range for the world record.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Tobi Amusan | Nigeria (NGR) | 12.06 | w |
| | Britany Anderson | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.23 | .224 |
| | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 12.23 | .229 |
| 4 | Alia Armstrong | United States (USA) | 12.31 | |
| 5 | Cindy Sember | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 12.38 | |
| 6 | Danielle Williams | Jamaica (JAM) | 12.44 | |
| 7 | Devynne Charlton | Bahamas (BAH) | 12.53 | |
| | Kendra Harrison | United States (USA) | | DQ |