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Host City: Los Angeles, United States

Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Date Started: August 9, 1984

Format: Top three in each heat and next four fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Date Finished: August 10, 1984

(Competitors: 22; Countries: 14; Finalists: 8)

Venue(s): Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

Overview by IAAF

The effect of the boycott was enormous; at the end of the year all of the top eight ranked hurdlers were Eastern bloc athletes. Britain’s Shirley Strong was favoured to beat the Americans, and was fastest in the heats with 12.86w, but Fitzgerald was the quickest in the semi-finals with 12.98. Fitzgerald and Strong were out quickest, and Strong was the midrace leader. The tall (1.78/64Kg) American caught the Briton at the eight hurdle, and won by 30cm, with Turner and Chardonnet level 2m behind them. Initially the two were announced as tied, but before the medal ceremony, Turner was given third place outright. The French officially protested, and six months later Chardonnet received her bronze medal when it had been decided that there had been a tie after all.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The Soviet-boycott made this basically a Double AA competition, as the top eight ranked hurdlers at year’s end and the top 12 times were from Eastern Europe. Since 1980 the best American hurdler had been Stephanie Hightower but she failed to make the American team, finishing fourth in the Trials in one of the closest finishes ever. Benita Fitzgerald-Brown had been TAC Champion in 1983 and finished second at the Olympic Trials to Kim Turner. Shirley Strong (GBR) was 1982 Commonwealth Champion and was favored. Fitzgerald-Brown and Strong were out quickest in the final and contested the gold and silver medals, Fitzgerald-Brown inching ahead at the eighth hurdle. Third-place was announced at first as a dead heat between Turner and France’s Michele Chardonnet, but after reviewing photos of the finish, the judges reversed themselves and gave the bronze medal to Turner. But Chardonnet was not informed of this until she was standing on the infield awaiting the medal ceremony, and she left the field sobbing. The French Athletics Federation protested and 3½ months later the decision was reverted to a dead-heat. Chardonnet received her bronze medal six months after the Olympics ended.

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record	12.36	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Warsaw (POL)	June 12, 1980
Olympic Record	12.56	Vera Komisova	Moscow (URS)	July 28, 1980

			Results

*100 m hurdles*	Women		Final	10 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	12.84	-0,7	Benita Fitzgerald-Brown	United States	USA	6 Jul 61
2	12.88	-0,7	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	GBR	18 Nov 58
3	13.06	-0,7	Michèle Chardonnet	France	FRA	27 Oct 56
3	13.06	-0,7	Kim McKenzie	United States	USA	21 Mar 61
5	13.20	-0,7	Glynis Nunn	Australia	AUS	4 Dec 60
6	13.28	-0,7	Marie-Noëlle Savigny	France	FRA	11 Oct 57
7	13.32	-0,7	Ulrike Denk	West Germany	FRG	10 May 64
8	13.40	-0,7	Pam Page	United States	USA	26 Apr 58
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Semifinal 1	10 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.11	-0,2	Kim McKenzie	United States	USA	21 Mar 61
2	13.16	-0,2	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	GBR	18 Nov 58
3	13.30	-0,2	Marie-Noëlle Savigny	France	FRA	11 Oct 57
4	13.36	-0,2	Pam Page	United States	USA	26 Apr 58
5	13.37	-0,2	Edith Oker	West Germany	FRG	1 Feb 61
6	13.42	-0,2	Sylvia Forgrave	Canada	CAN	22 May 57
7	13.70	-0,2	Cécile Ngambi	Cameroon	CMR	15 Nov 60
8	13.84	-0,2	Sophia Hunter	Jamaica	JAM	12 Sep 65
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Semifinal 2	10 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	12.98	1,2	Benita Fitzgerald-Brown	United States	USA	6 Jul 61
2	13.09	1,2	Michèle Chardonnet	France	FRA	27 Oct 56
3	13.14	1,2	Glynis Nunn	Australia	AUS	4 Dec 60
4	13.20	1,2	Ulrike Denk	West Germany	FRG	10 May 64
5	13.35	1,2	Sharon Danville	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 55
6	13.52	1,2	Maria Usifo	Nigeria	NGR	1 Aug 64
7	13.57	1,2	Liu Huajin	China	CHN	7 Feb 60
8	13.65	1,2	Susan Kameli	Canada	CAN	17 Sep 56
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Heat 1	9 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.13	-1,3	Benita Fitzgerald-Brown	United States	USA	6 Jul 61
2	13.32	-1,3	Michèle Chardonnet	France	FRA	27 Oct 56
3	13.46	-1,3	Sharon Danville	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 55
4	13.54	-1,3	Cécile Ngambi	Cameroon	CMR	15 Nov 60	NR
5	13.77	-1,3	Karen Nelson	Canada	CAN	3 Dec 63
6	15.39	-1,3	Barbra Ingiro	Papua New Guinea	PNG	6 Dec 63
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Heat 2	9 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	12.86w	2,8	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	GBR	18 Nov 58
2	13.14w	2,8	Edith Oker	West Germany	FRG	1 Feb 61
3	13.29w	2,8	Glynis Nunn	Australia	AUS	4 Dec 60
4	13.44w	2,8	Sophia Hunter	Jamaica	JAM	12 Sep 65
5	13.64w	2,8	Liu Huajin	China	CHN	7 Feb 60
6	14.20w	2,8	Elizabet Pantazis	Greece	GRE	21 May 56
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Heat 3	9 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.32	-1,2	Ulrike Denk	West Germany	FRG	10 May 64
2	13.33	-1,2	Kim McKenzie	United States	USA	21 Mar 61
3	13.36	-1,2	Marie-Noëlle Savigny	France	FRA	11 Oct 57
4	13.47	-1,2	Sylvia Forgrave	Canada	CAN	22 May 57
5	13.96	-1,2	Semra Aksu	Turkey	TUR	31 May 62
*100 m hurdles*	Women		Heat 4	9 August

Rank	Mark	Wind	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	13.32	-0,7	Pam Page	United States	USA	26 Apr 58
2	13.54	-0,7	Maria Usifo	Nigeria	NGR	1 Aug 64
3	13.72	-0,7	Susan Kameli	Canada	CAN	17 Sep 56
4	13.90	-0,7	Beatriz Capotosto	Argentina	ARG	16 May 62
5	13.98	-0,7	Laurence Elloy	France	FRA	3 Dec 59