The women's 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 and 24 August. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce entered the competition as the defending champion and the world leading athlete that season with a time of 10.74 seconds.Bolt and Fraser-Pryce front Jamaica's team for IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015. IAAF (2015-08-11). Retrieved on 2015-08-16.Start list
Summary The semi-finals eliminated the second fastest woman in 2015, English Gardner, otherwise it was mostly the expected fastest athletes from the world list. The surprise was Dafne Schippers improving her own national record by almost a tenth of a second to 10.83 while winning the third semi-final. Previous to that, Schippers had one significant win in London at the end of July, a race that only included one other finalist, Blessing Okagbare, and had been soundly defeated by Fraser-Pryce, Gardner and Okagbare in Paris in early June. Schippers time won her a center lane position, towering next to Fraser-Pryce in the final.
In the final, the gun went off and as expected Fraser-Pryce, the "pocket rocket" was out in front, her first three steps clearly faster than the field. While Schippers had the second best reaction time of the field, she appeared to be slightly behind Natasha Morrison and Michelle-Lee Ahye with veteran Veronica Campbell-Brown out in second place behind her teammate. But as top end speed was reached, Schippers and Tori Bowie behind her began eating into the lead with every stride. She was unable to catch Fraser-Pryce who held her arms up in victory as she crossed the line, running out of time Schippers made a desperate early lean at the finish while Bowie over strided her last few steps also in desperation in third. Each of the first 5 were clearly separated by .05 of a second. Schippers 10.81 in second place improved upon her national record for the second time in the same day.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record10.49Indianapolis, United States16 July 1988Championship record10.70Seville, Spain28 August 1999World leading10.74Paris, France4 July 2015African record10.79London, United Kingdom27 July 2013Asian record10.79Shanghai, China18 October 1997NACAC record10.49Indianapolis, United States16 July 1988South American record10.99Toronto, Canada22 July 2015European record10.73Budapest, Hungary19 August 1998Oceanian record11.11Canberra, Australia9 February 2014
Qualification standards Entry standards 11.33
Schedule Date Time Round23 August 2015 12:00 Heats24 August 2015 19:40 Semifinals24 August 2015 21:35 Final
Results KEY:QQualifiedqFastest non-qualifiersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.Heats results
Wind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.3 m/s, Heat 3: -1.2 m/s Heat 4: +2.3 m/s, Heat 5: -1.6 m/s, Heat 6: +1.5 m/s, Heat 7: -0.5 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Tori Bowie 10.88 1 4 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.88 3 4 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 10.95 4 3 Michelle-Lee Ahye 10.98 5 5 Dafne Schippers 11.01 6 1 Veronica Campbell-Brown 11.04 7 2 Blessing Okagbare 11.07 8 2 Natasha Morrison 11.08 8 4 Carina Horn 11.08 10 3 Ivet Lalova 11.09 , 11 3 Murielle Ahouré 11.10 12 3 Ezinne Okparaebo 11.12 , 13 6 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 11.13 14 7 Rosângela Santos 11.14 15 5 Semoy Hackett 11.16 , 15 7 English Gardner 11.16 17 6 Mujinga Kambundji 11.17 , 18 6 Sherone Simpson 11.22 19 7 Chisato Fukushima 11.23 , 20 2 Viktoriya Zyabkina 11.24 21 1 Asha Philip 11.28 21 6 Wei Yongli 11.28 , 23 5 Jasmine Todd 11.29 23 4 Ramona Papaioannou 11.29 23 4 Rebekka Haase 11.29 26 6 Khamica Bingham 11.30 27 3 Crystal Emmanuel 11.33 28 1 Gina Lückenkemper 11.34 29 5 Olesya Povh 11.40 30 2 Naomi Sedney 11.41 30 2 Verena Sailer 11.41 32 7 Maja Mihalinec 11.42 33 3 Isidora Jiménez 11.47 33 5 Tahesia Harrigan-Scott 11.47 35 6 Narcisa Landazuri 11.48 35 7 Sheniqua Ferguson 11.48 37 1 Olga Safronova 11.49 38 1 Inna Eftimova 11.50 39 4 Nediam Vargas 11.51 40 5 Kimberly Hyacinthe 11.54 41 2 Melissa Breen 11.61 42 7 Nataliya Pohrebnyak 11.62 42 7 Andrea Purica 11.62 44 3 Aziza Sbaity 11.98 45 6 Hafsatu Kamara 12.13 46 5 Adriana Alves 12.19 47 1 Valentina Meredova 12.25 48 3 Patricia Taea 12.34 49 1 Lidiane Lopes 12.43 50 6 Marlene Mevong 12.56 51 5 Regine Tugade 12.60 52 2 Lihen Jonas 13.70 2 Charlotte Wingfield R162.7 4 Jamile Samuel R162.7
Semifinals Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.Semifinals results
Wind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.82 2 3 Dafne Schippers 10.83 , 3 2 Tori Bowie 10.87 4 1 Blessing Okagbare 10.89 4 3 Veronica Campbell-Brown 10.89 , 6 2 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 10.90 7 2 Natasha Morrison 10.96 , 8 3 Michelle-Lee Ahye 10.97 , 9 3 Murielle Ahouré 10.98 10 1 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 11.04 11 1 Sherone Simpson 11.06 12 2 Rosângela Santos 11.07 12 2 Mujinga Kambundji 11.07 14 3 Ivet Lalova 11.13 14 1 Semoy Hackett 11.13 14 1 English Gardner 11.13 17 3 Carina Horn 11.15 18 2 Viktoriya Zyabkina 11.19 18 3 Ezinne Okparaebo 11.19 20 1 Asha Philip 11.21 20 3 Jasmine Todd 11.21 22 1 Wei Yongli 11.27 23 2 Chisato Fukushima 11.32 24 2 Ramona Papaioannou 11.38
Final The final was started at 21:35.Final results Wind: -0.3 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.76 Dafne Schippers 10.81 Tori Bowie 10.86 4 Veronica Campbell-Brown 10.91 5 Michelle-Lee Ahye 10.98 6 Kelly-Ann Baptiste 11.01 7 Natasha Morrison 11.02 8 Blessing Okagbare 11.02
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