2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 100 metres explained

The girls' 100 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Nord Lille Métropole on 6 and 7 July.^[1]

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Jennifer Madu	Myasia Jacobs	Christania Williams

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best		11.13		21 June 1976
Championship Record		11.31	Sherbrooke, Canada	11 July 2003
World Youth Leading		11.39		19 March 2011

No new records were set during the competition.

Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 8 fastest times (q) qualified.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			11.83	Q
2	6			11.95	Q
3	5			12.19	q
4	3			12.38
5	1			12.50
6	7			12.90
7	2			14.44	PB
	8			DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			11.72	Q
2	1			11.99	Q
3	3			12.07	q
4	2			12.18	q
5	7			12.65
6	5			12.82
7	8			13.74	PB
	4			DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			11.65	Q, PB
2	4			11.76	Q, PB
3	2			12.20	q
4	8			12.25
5	3			12.26	PB
6	5			12.44	SB
7	7			12.58
8	6			13.17	PB

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			11.85	Q
2	1			12.21	Q
3	6			12.27	PB
4	4			12.31
5	5			12.35
6	3			12.38
7	8			13.42
8	7			14.13	PB

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			11.84	Q
2	2			12.20	Q
3	7			12.28
4	3			12.32
5	4			12.37
6	6			12.50
7	8			12.66	PB
8	5			13.03	PB

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			11.66	Q
2	3			12.03	Q
3	2			12.14	q
4	4			12.19	q, PB
5	7			12.32	SB
6	6			12.72
	5			DQ

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			11.84	Q
2	7			12.04	Q
3	3			12.15	q
4	6			12.26
5	1			12.64
6	5			12.83
	4			DNS

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			11.79	Q
2	3			12.04	Q
3	7			12.11	q
4	8			12.37
5	1			12.54
6	4			12.74
7	5			13.25
8	2			14.25	PB

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			11.72	Q
2	6			11.84	Q
3	5			12.24
4	7			12.29
5	3			12.33
6	2			12.40
7	8			12.43
8	1			12.49

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			11.71	Q
2	3			11.89	Q
3	5			12.05	q
4	8			12.05	q
5	4			12.14
6	1			12.24
7	7			12.29
8	2			12.45

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			11.83	Q
2	4			11.92	Q
3	6			12.09
4	5			12.11
5	2			12.36
6	1			12.46
7	7			12.47
	8			DQ

Final

^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			11.57	PB
	5			11.61
	3			11.63
	6			11.68
	7			11.71
	8			11.73	PB
	1			11.92
	2			12.00

Notes and References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-07-2011/bydate.html Timetable
2. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-06-2011/sex=W/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=h/results.html#detW_100_hash_h Heat results
3. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-07-2011/sex=W/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=sf/startlist.html#detW_100_hash_sf Semifinal results
4. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-07-2011/sex=W/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#detW_100_hash_f Final results