1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres Hurdles event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with two semi-finals and five qualifying heats and the final held on Friday August 30, 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Lyudmila Narozhilenko Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Gail Devers United States (USA)
Bronze	Nataliya Grygoryeva Soviet Union (URS)

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (URS)	12.59
	Gail Devers (USA)	12.63
	Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS)	12.69
4.	Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA)	12.84
5.	Julie Baumann (SUI)	12.88
6.	Florence Colle (FRA)	13.01
7.	Aliuska López (CUB)	13.06
8.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.07

Semi-Finals

• Held on Thursday 1991-08-29

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS)	12.66
2.	Gail Devers (USA)	12.71
3.	Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA)	12.88
4.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.11
5.	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	13.17
6.	Sylvia Dethier (BEL)	13.18
7.	Kay Morley-Brown (GBR)	13.24
8.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.26

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (URS)	12.52
2.	Aliuska López (CUB)	12.91
3.	Florence Colle (FRA)	12.94
4.	Julie Baumann (SUI)	12.94
5.	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.02
6.	Arnita Myricks (USA)	13.12
7.	María José Mardomingo (ESP)	13.19
8.	Yu Zhang (CHN)	13.24

Qualifying heats

• Held on Thursday 1991-08-29

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Zhang Yu (CHN)	13.12
2.	Arnita Myricks (USA)	13.12
3.	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.20
4.	Lesley-Ann Skeete (GBR)	13.33
5.	Mihaela Pogacian (ROM)	13.38
6.	Cornelia Oschkenat (GER)	13.55

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS)	13.02
2.	Odalys Adams (CUB)	13.30
3.	Paraskevi Patoulidou (GRE)	13.41
4.	Liliana Nastase (ROM)	13.41
5.	Donalda Duprey (CAN)	13.75
6.	Carmen Bezanilla (CHI)	14.01
–	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Gail Devers (USA)	12.77
2.	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	13.10
3.	Florence Colle (FRA)	13.12
4.	María José Mardomingo (ESP)	13.22
6.	Gloria Siebert (GER)	13.29
7.	Luo Bin (CHN)	13.53

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA)	12.92
2.	Aliuska Lopez (CUB)	13.10
3.	Kay Morley-Brown (GBR)	13.24
4.	Nadezhda Bodrova (URS)	13.34
5.	Brigita Bukovec (YUG)	13.44
6.	Monica Pellegrinelli (ITA)	13.49
7.	Wang Shu-Hwa (TPE)	13.81

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (URS)	12.66
2.	Julie Baumann (SUI)	12.86
3.	Sylvia Dethier (BEL)	13.07
4.	Kristin Patzwahl (GER)	13.08
5.	Dawn Bowles (USA)	13.41
6.	Michelle Edwards (GBR)	13.50
7.	Ayumi Sasaki (JPN)	13.85

See also

• 1987 Women's World Championships 100m Hurdles (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 100m Hurdles (Seoul)
• 1990 European World Championships 100m Hurdles (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic 100m Hurdles (Barcelona)
• 1993 Women's World Championships 100m Hurdles (Stuttgart)
• 1994 European World Championships 100m Hurdles (Helsinki)

References

• Results