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100-Meter Hurdles Women's Olympic Medalists

By Mike Rosenbaum, About.com

The gold, silver, and bronze medal winners in the women’s 100-meter hurdles from the Summer Olympic games.

  • 1972
    GOLD Annelie Ehrhardt, GDR 12.59
    SILVER Valeria Bufanu, ROM 12.84
    BRONZE Karin Balzer, GDR 12.90

  • 1976
    GOLD Johanna Schaller, GDR 12.77
    SILVER Tatyana Anisimova, URS 12.78
    BRONZE Natalya Lebedeva, URS 12.80

  • 1980
    GOLD Vera Komisova, URS 12.56
    SILVER Johanna Klier, GDR 12.63
    BRONZE Lucyna Langer, POL 12.65

  • 1984
    GOLD Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, USA 12.84
    SILVER Shirley Strong, GBR 12.88
    BRONZE Kim Turner, USA, 13.06
    BRONZE Michèle Chardonnet, FRA 13.06

  • 1988
    GOLD Yordanka Donkova, BUL 12.38
    SILVER Gloria Siebert, GDR 12.61
    BRONZE Claudia Zaczkiewicz, FRG 12.75

  • 1992
    GOLD Voula Patoulídou, GRE 12.64
    SILVER LaVonna Martin, USA 12.69
    BRONZE Yordanka Donkova, BUL 12.70

  • 1996
    GOLD Ludmila Engquist, SWE 12.58
    SILVER Brigita Bukovec, SLO 12.59
    BRONZE Patricia Girard-Léno, FRA 12.65

  • 2000
    GOLD Olga Shishigina, KAZ 12.65
    SILVER Glory Alozie, NGR 12.68
    BRONZE Melissa Morrison, USA 12.76

  • 2004
    GOLD Joanna Hayes, USA 12.37
    SILVER Yelena Krasovska, UKR 12.45
    BRONZE Melissa Morrison, USA 12.56

  • 2008
    GOLD Dawn Harper, USA 12.54
    SILVER Sally McLellan, AUS 12.64
    BRONZE Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, CAN 12.64


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