2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Location	Helsinki
Dates	27 June (round 1 & semifinals ) 28 June (final)
Competitors	32 from 23 nations
Winning time	11.28
Medalists
Ivet Lalova    Bulgaria   Olesya Povh    Ukraine   Lina Grinčikaitė    Lithuania

2012 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 100 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.

Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships
World record	Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)	10.49	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
European record	Christine Arron (FRA)	10.73	Budapest, Hungary	19 August 1998
Championship record	Christine Arron (FRA)	10.73	Budapest, Hungary	19 August 1998
World Leading	Carmelita Jeter (USA)	10.81	Kingston, Jamaica	5 May 2012
European Leading	Olesya Povh (UKR)	11.08	Yalta, Ukraine	4 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 European Athletics Championships
European Leading	Ivet Lalova (BUL)	11.06	Helsinki, Finland	27 June 2012

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Wind:
Heat 1: −0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s, Heat 3: −0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	4	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	11.06	Q, EL
2	4	5	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.14	Q, SB
3	2	3	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.26	Q, PB
4	2	7	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.27	Q
5	1	1	Olesya Povh	Ukraine	11.30	Q
6	3	2	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.38	Q
7	4	3	Yuliya Balykina	Belarus	11.39	Q
8	1	5	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.40	Q, SB
9	3	8	Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto	Germany	11.41	Q
10	4	8	Ashleigh Nelson	Great Britain	11.43	Q, SB
11	3	4	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.46	Q
12	1	3	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey	11.48	Q
13	4	6	Nataliya Pohrebnyak	Ukraine	11.50	q
14	3	1	Yulia Nestsiarenka	Belarus	11.52	q
15	1	4	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	11.53	q
15	2	8	Audrey Alloh	Italy	11.53	q
17	1	7	Christine Arron	France	11.55
17	2	5	Andreea Ograzeanu	Romania	11.55	SB
17	4	2	Yevgeniya Polyakova	Russia	11.55
20	2	1	María Belibasáki	Greece	11.56
21	2	6	Amy Foster	Ireland	11.58
22	1	2	Martina Amidei	Italy	11.60
23	4	1	Folake Akinyemi	Norway	11.62
24	1	8	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	11.64
25	1	6	Sónia Tavares	Portugal	11.65
26	3	6	Hanna-Maari Latvala	Finland	11.67
27	4	7	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	11.68
28	3	3	Gabriela Laleva	Bulgaria	11.79
29	3	5	Jeanette Kwakye	Great Britain	11.98
30	4	4	Diane Borg	Malta	12.14	SB
31	3	7	Ivana Rožman	Macedonia	12.86
32	2	2	Cristina Llovera	Andorra	13.01

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	6	Olesya Povh	Ukraine	11.13	Q
2	2	4	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.17	Q
3	1	6	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	11.23	Q
4	1	3	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.30	Q
5	1	5	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.34	Q, SB
6	2	5	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.36	Q, SB
7	1	7	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.39	q
8	1	4	Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto	Germany	11.39	q
9	2	3	Yuliya Balykina	Belarus	11.42
10	2	7	Daria Korczyńska	Poland	11.43
11	2	8	Ashleigh Nelson	Great Britain	11.43	=SB
12	2	2	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	11.45
13	2	1	Audrey Alloh	Italy	11.51
14	1	1	Nataliya Pohrebnyak	Ukraine	11.52
15	1	8	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey	11.61
	1	2	Yulia Nestsiarenka	Belarus	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	4	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	11.28
	3	Olesya Povh	Ukraine	11.32
	8	Lina Grinčikaitė	Lithuania	11.32	SB
4	2	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	11.39
5	5	Olga Belkina	Russia	11.42
6	6	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.42
7	7	Anne Cibis	Germany	11.54
8	1	Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto	Germany	11.62
				Wind: -0.7 m/s

• Round 1 Results Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Semifinal Results Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Final Results Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine