| 100 metres
hurdles Women Landmarks |
First under 13.00:
12.93 Chi Cheng TPE 1970
First under 12.50: 12.48 Grazyna Rabsztyn POL 1978
First under 12.30: 12.29 Yordanka Donkova BUL 1986
Subsequent record progression:
12.26 Yordanka Donkova 1986
12.25 Ginka Zagorcheva BUL 1987
12.21 Yordanka Donkova 1988Most durable world
record: 12.21 Donkova 1988 (12 years)
Most legal times under 12.40: Donkova 13 |
| Superlatives |
Most Olympic titles:
2 (at 80m) Shirley de la Hunty AUS 1952/1956
Most World titles: 3 Gail Devers USA 1993/1995/1999
Youngest Olympic/World champion: Maureen Caird AUS (at 80m) 1968 (17)
Oldest: Gail Devers 1999 (33) |
| Three all
time Greats |
 Shirley de la Hunty (AUS): Winner of seven Olympic
medals, she remains the only woman to have won two hurdling titles. In her day the
distance was 80m and she set world records both for that event and the flat 100m. |
 Yordanka
Donkova (BUL): On a time basis she is the best; holder of the world record and
with a proliferation of fast times. She was Olympic champion in 1988. |
 Gail
Devers (USA): The only woman to win three world hurdling titles, she is equally
adept at the flat 100m. She won that event at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and looked set
for a double in Barcelona until hitting the final hurdle. |
