100 metres hurdles
The 100 - meter hurdles is an Olympic sport of athletics for women. Here are to be run on a straight 100 - meter track 84 ten inches high, erected at equal distances hurdles. They are designed so that they can fall over when pushed, which is not considered an error for the competitors, if it is not done intentionally.
The first hurdle is from the starting point of 13.00 m, the gaps are 8.50 m long, and the final sprint is 10.50 m.
At the Olympic Games, a 80 - meter hurdles was fought from 1932 to 1968; In 1972 the line was extended to 100 meters. The men traditionally run 110 meters hurdles.
The fastest 100 - meter hurdles runners achieve a time of 12.5 seconds ( world record: 12.21 seconds). This corresponds to a speed of 8.0 m / s or 28.8 km / h and is about 1.5 seconds slower than in the 100 -meter run.
History
The hurdles for women since the beginning of the woman athletics, such as after the end of World War I, operated. The selected distances and hurdle heights were initially very different. While men competitions were set to 110 m/120 yards, registered the Women's Sports Federation FSFI to 1926 records for eight different disciplines (60 Yards/75 cm height, 60 cm Yards/61, 65 Yards/75 cm, 83 cm Yards/75, Yards/75 100 cm, 100 cm Yards/61, 120 Yards/75 cm, 110 cm Meter/75 ). In the first women's world games 1922 100 - yards hurdles competition was held.
From 1926 onwards, was only run on the 80 - meter range - under the conditions which existed until 1968: Too full, eight hurdles with 8 m spacing and 76.2 centimeters in height.
Until 1935 allowed - as well as for men - no more than three hurdles is likely to hit, otherwise the runner was disqualified. Records were recognized only if all the hurdles stood still. With the abolition of this rule in 1935 also hurdles were introduced in L- shape, tip over easily to reduce the risk of injury when pushed forward.
The first 80 - meter hurdles for women in Germany took place in the eight -nation meeting of the SCC on June 12, 1927 in Berlin, Eva von Bredow put it a world record.
The 80 - meter hurdles was one of the demands of women's sport - Federation FSFI for the Olympic Games 1928. However, he was taken in 1932 in the Olympic program. From 1949 to the 80 - meter hurdles was a sub-discipline in the pentathlon for women.
In the 1960s, has been experimented with a 100 - meter hurdles, in which the barriers were 76.2 inches high.
During the Olympic Games in 1968, the introduction of the 100 - meter hurdles race with 84 - inch hurdles was decided. First international peak with 100 - meter hurdles were the European Athletics Championships 1969 ( Winner: Karin Balzer, GDR ).
80 - meter hurdles and 100 - meter hurdles in comparison:
Milestones
80 - meter hurdles:
- First registered time: 13.0 s, Czechoslovakia Ludmila Sychrová, July 6, 1926 in Prague
- First official world record: 12.8 s ( 12 4/5), German Reich Eva von Bredow, June 14, 1927
- First runner under 12 seconds: 11.8 s ( 11 4/5), South Africa 1928 Marjorie Clark, May 24, 1934
- First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 s, Australia Shirley Strickland, July 24, 1952
- Last official world record: 10.2 s, Soviet Union 1955 Wera Korsakowa, June 16, 1968
100 - meter hurdles:
- First time registered with a reduced barrier height (76.2 cm): 13.4 s, Australia Pam Kilborn, November 26, 1961 in Newport
- First time registered with standard hurdle height ( 84 cm): 15,1 s, United States Connie Pettersson, May 28, 1966 in Kalispell
- First official world record: 13.3 s, Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Karin Balzer, June 20, 1969
- First runner under 13 seconds: 12.9 s, Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Karin Balzer, September 5, 1969
- First runner with 12.5 seconds: 12.3 s, the Democratic Republic of Germany 1949 Annelie Ehrhardt, 20 July 1973 (last world record with handgestoppter time, electronic measurement: 12.68 s )
- 12.48 s, Poland Grazyna Rabsztyn, June 10, 1978
Successful athletes
- Australia Shirley Strickland: two Olympic victories in 1952 and 1956 in the 80 - meter hurdles
- United States Gail Devers: three world championship titles in 1993, 1995, 1999, also World Cup Second 1991 and 2001
Most successful German female athletes:
- Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Karin Balzer, Olympic champion in 1964 in the 80 - meter hurdles, Olympic bronze medalist in 1972 in the 100 - meter hurdles
- Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Annelie Ehrhardt, Olympic Champion 1972
- Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Johanna Schaller, Olympic champion in 1976 and Olympic silver medalist in 1980 (under the name Klier )