These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres Hurdles

Hurdling

Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships

1983 World Championships in Athletics

The inaugural World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between August 7 and August 14, 1983....

in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 35 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats, four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and the final held on Saturday 1983-08-13.

Medalists

Gold	Bettine Jahn Bettine Jahn Bettine Jahn née Gartz is an East German former athlete. She won the 100-meter hurdles at the 1983 World Championship in Helsinki. She is still the German record holder on that distance with 12.42 s.... East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Kerstin Knabe Kerstin Knabe Kerstin Knabe is a former German athlete, who ran for East Germany. She made her Olympic debut at the 1980 Games, placing 4th in the 100m hurdles. Knabe did not participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of a boycott of those Games by East Germany.-Achievements:-References:*... East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Ginka Zagorcheva Ginka Zagorcheva Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria. Most notable for winning the 100 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Championships, with 12.25 seconds she held the world record for a year until it was beaten by Yordanka Donkova in August 1988... Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...  (BUL)

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record		12.36	Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most... , Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	June 12, 1980
Championship Record	New event

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
		12.35 WR
		12.42
		12.62
4.		12.67
5.		12.78
6.		12.80
7.		12.94
8.		12.99

Semi-Finals

• Held on Saturday 1983-08-13

  RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
  1.		12.75
  2.		12.83
  3.		12.92
  4.		12.99
  5.		13.13
  6.		13.24
  7.		13.42
  8.		13.68

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		12.76
2.		12.83
3.		12.96
4.		13.00
5.		13.08
6.		13.16
7.		13.30
8.		13.39

Quarter-Finals

• Held on Friday 1983-08-12

  RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
  1.		12.83
  2.		13.22
  3.		13.23
  4.		13.31
  5.		13.33
  6.		13.60
  7.		13.95
  8.		14.07

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		12.66
2.		12.70
3.		13.12
4.		13.13
5.		13.29
6.		13.60
7.		13.73
		DNS

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.		12.75
2.		12.95
3.		13.15
4.		13.16
5.		13.21
6.		13.30
7.		13.38
8.		13.73

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.		12.91
2.		12.94
3.		12.96
4.		13.14
5.		13.21
6.		13.61
7.		13.80
8.		13.90

Qualifying heats

• Held on Friday 1983-08-12

  RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
  1.		13.03
  2.		13.15
  3.		13.26
  4.		13.61
  5.		13.71
  6.		13.90
  7.		13.97

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		12.78
2.		12.91
3.		13.21
4.		13.24
5.		13.46
6.		13.63
7.		14.25

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.		13.26
2.		13.43
3.		13.60
4.		13.67
5.		13.83
6.		14.85
7.		14.89

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.		13.04
2.		13.07
3.		13.26
4.		13.66
5.		13.76
6.		13.78
		DNF

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.		12.81
2.		13.17
3.		13.18
4.		13.25
5.		13.26
6.		13.78
7.		13.90