| Athletics 100 metres hurdles | |
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 A 100 m hurdles race atAtlanta 1996 | |
| World records | |
| Women |  Tobi Amusan (NGR) 12.12 (2022) |
| Olympic records | |
| Women |  Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PRI) 12.26 (2021) |
| World Championship records | |
| Women | Tobi Amusan (NGR) 12.12 (2022) |
The100 metres hurdles, or100-meter hurdles, is atrack and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the110 metres hurdles). For the race, tenhurdles of a height of 83.8 centimetres (33 in) are placed along a straight course of 100 metres (109.36 yd). The first hurdle is placed after a run-up of 13 metres from the starting line. The next 9 hurdles are set at a distance of 8.5 metres from each other, and the home stretch from the last hurdle to the finish line is 10.5 metres long. The hurdles are set up so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner, but weighted so this is disadvantageous. Fallen hurdles do not count against runners provided that they do not run into them on purpose. Like the100 metres sprint, the 100 m hurdles begins with athletes instarting blocks.
The fastest 100 m hurdlers run the distance in well under 13 seconds. Theworld record set byTobi Amusan stands at 12.12 seconds.
The race started back in the 1830s in England where wooden barriers were placed along a 100-yard stretch. The hurdles event was included as part of the inaugural Women's World Games in 1922, and made its first appearance in theOlympic Games in 1932 as 80m hurdles.
Starting with the1972 Summer Olympics, the women's race was lengthened to 100m hurdles.[1]
The hurdles sprint race has been run by women since the beginning of women's athletics, just after the end of World War I. The distances and hurdle heights varied widely in the beginning. While the men had zeroed in on the110 m hurdles, theInternational Women's Sport Federation had registered records for eight different disciplines by 1926 (60yards/75 cm height, 60 yards/61 cm, 65 yards/75 cm, 83 yards/75 cm, 100 yards/75 cm, 100 yards/61 cm, 120 yards/75 cm, 110 metres/75 cm). At the firstWomen's World Games in 1922, a 100 m hurdles race was run.
From 1926 until 1968, the distance was 80 metres: women had to clear eight hurdles placed at a distance of 8 metres from each other and a height of 76.2 centimetres (30 in).
Just like with the men's races, until 1935 no more than three hurdles could be knocked over, or the runner was disqualified, and records were only officially registered if the runner had cleared all her hurdles clean.
In 1935, this rule was abandoned, and L-shaped hurdles were introduced that fell over forward easily and greatly reduced the risk of injury to the runner. Hurdles are weighted, so when properly set for the height (for women, closer to the fulcrum of the "L"), they serve as a consistent disadvantage to making contact with the barrier.
| Distance | Number of hurdles | Height | Distance made up of | ||
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| Runup | Intervals | Home stretch | |||
| 80 m | 8 | 76.2 cm | 12 m | 8.0 m | 12.0 m |
| 100 m | 10 | 83.8 cm | 13 m | 8.5 m | 10.5 m |
The80 m hurdles was on the list of women's sports demanded by the International Women's Sport Federation for theOlympic Summer Games in 1928, but was not included as an Olympic discipline until 1932. Starting with 1949, the 80 m hurdles was one of the disciplines included in thewomen's pentathlon.
During the 1960s, some experimental races were run over a distance of 100 metres using hurdles with a height of 76.2 centimetres (30 in). During the1968 Summer Olympics, a decision was made to introduce the 100 m hurdles from 1969, using hurdles with a height of 83.8 centimetres (33 in).
The first international event in the 100 m hurdles occurred at the European Athletics Championships, which were won byKarin Balzer of theGDR.
The modern 100 m race has an extra two hurdles compared to the 80 m race, which are higher and spaced slightly further apart. The home stretch is shorter by 1.5 m.
Currently, women run 110 m hurdles at theWorld Athletics Relays, a mixed team event, which was instituted in2019.
A version of the 100 metres hurdles is also used for 50- to 59-year-old men inMasters athletics. They run the same spacing as women, which coordinates with existing markings on most tracks, but run over 91.4 cm (36 in) hurdles. In the 60-69 age range, the spacings are changed. Women over age 40 and men over age 70 run 80 metre versions with different heights and spacings.[2][3]
100 m hurdles:
| Table shows data for two definitions of "Top 25" - the top 25100m hurdles times and the top 25athletes: |
| - denotes top performance forathletes in the top 25100m hurdles times |
| - denotes lesser performances, still in the top 25100m hurdles times, by repeat athletes |
| - denotes top performance (only) for other top 25athletes who fall outside the top 25 100m hurdles times |
| Ath.# | Perf.# | Time (s) | Wind (m/s) | Reaction (s) | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 12.12 | +0.9 | 0.144 | Tobi Amusan | Nigeria | 24 July 2022 | Eugene | [6][7] |
| 2 | 2 | 12.17 | +2.0 | Masai Russell |  United States | 2 May 2025 | Miramar | [8][9] | |
| 3 | 3 | 12.19 | +2.0 | Tia Jones | United States | 2 May 2025 | Miramar | [8][9] | |
| 3 | 12.19 | +1.4 | 0.150 | Russell #2 | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [10] | ||
| 4 | 5 | 12.20 | +0.3 | 0.149 | Kendra Harrison | United States | 22 July 2016 | London | [11] |
| 5 | 6 | 12.21 | +0.7 | Yordanka Donkova |  Bulgaria | 20 August 1988 | Stara Zagora | ||
| +0.7 | 0.146 | Grace Stark | United States | 20 June 2025 | Paris | [12] | |||
| 8 | 12.22 | +0.7 | Russell #3 | 2 August 2025 | Eugene | [13] | |||
| 9 | 12.24 | +0.9 | Donkova #2 | 28 August 1988 | Stara Zagora | ||||
| +0.7 | Harrison #2 | 28 May 2016 | Eugene | ||||||
| +0.1 | 0.155 | Harrison #3 | 22 August 2023 | Budapest | [14] | ||||
| 7 | 9 | 12.24 | −0.4 | 0.153 | Ackera Nugent |  Jamaica | 30 August 2024 | Rome | [15] |
| 9 | 12.24 | +0.7 | 0.131 | Amusan #2 | 20 June 2025 | Paris | [12] | ||
| 7 | 9 | 12.24 | +1.4 | 0.129 | Tonea Marshall | United States | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [10] |
| −0.1 | 0.146 | Ditaji Kambundji |  Switzerland | 15 September 2025 | Tokyo | [16] | |||
| 10 | 16 | 12.25 | +1.4 | Ginka Zagorcheva | Bulgaria | 8 August 1987 | Drama | ||
| 16 | 12.25 | +0.7 | Russell #4 | 30 June 2024 | Eugene | [17] | |||
| +1.5 | Russell #5 | 2 August 2025 | Eugene | [18] | |||||
| +1.4 | 0.156 | Amusan #3 | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [10] | ||||
| 20 | 12.26 | +1.5 | Donkova #3 | 7 September 1986 | Ljubljana | ||||
| 11 | 20 | 12.26 | +1.7 | Ludmila Narozhilenko |  Russia | 6 June 1992 | Seville | ||
| +1.2 | Brianna Rollins | United States | 22 June 2013 | Des Moines | [19] | ||||
| −0.2 | 0.172 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Puerto Rico | 1 August 2021 | Tokyo | [20][21] | |||
| 24 | 12.27 | −1.2 | Donkova #4 | 28 August 1988 | Stara Zagora | ||||
| +0.9 | 0.155 | Harrison #4 | 24 July 2022 | Eugene | [6][22] | ||||
| +0.1 | 0.166 | Camacho-Quinn #2 | 2 September 2022 | Brussels | [23][24] | ||||
| 14 | 12.28 | +1.1 | 0.145 | Sally Pearson |  Australia | 3 September 2011 | Daegu | [25] | |
| +1.1 | 0.148 | Nadine Visser |  Netherlands | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [26] | |||
| 16 | 12.30 | +0.6 | 0.153 | Nia Ali | United States | 21 July 2023 | Monaco | [27] | |
| 17 | 12.31 | +0.3 | 0.143 | Britany Anderson | Jamaica | 24 July 2022 | Eugene | [6][28] | |
| +0.8 | 0.150 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela |  France | 8 June 2024 | Rome | [29] | |||
| +0.7 | Alaysha Johnson | United States | 30 June 2024 | Eugene | [17] | ||||
| +1.4 | 0.122 | Danielle Williams | Jamaica | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [10] | |||
| 21 | 12.32 | +1.4 | 0.149 | Alia Armstrong | United States | 16 August 2025 | Chorzów | [10] | |
| 22 | 12.33 | −0.3 | Gail Devers | United States | 23 July 2000 | Sacramento | |||
| 23 | 12.34 | +1.9 | Sharika Nelvis | United States | 26 June 2015 | Eugene | [30] | ||
| +0.1 | Megan Tapper | Jamaica | 29 June 2025 | Kingston | [31] | ||||
| 25 | 12.35 | +0.9 | Jasmin Stowers | United States | 15 May 2015 | Doha | [32] |
Any performance with a following wind of more than 2.0 metres per second does not count for record purposes. Below is a list of allwind-assisted times equal or superior to 12.30:
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