Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on the 4 & 8 of September. This was the first time this distance for women were help at the Olympics the previous distance of 80 metres were discontinued after the 1968 Games. If the Olympics were held two years earlier in 1970 the hands on favorite would have been Cheng Chi of the Republic of China who set several world records in that year. No
Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics 1990, the nation has sent a single team to every Olympics since the 1992 Summer Olympics. This made Sydney the third appearance at an Olympics by a unified Yemen, and the nation has yet to debut in the Winter Olympic Games. The 2000 Summer Olympics were held from 15 September to 1 October 2000; a total of 10,651 athletes represented 199 National Olympic Committees. Yemen sent two track and field competitors to Sydney, Basheer Al-Khewani and Hana Ali Saleh. Al-Khewani was selected as the flag-bearer for the opening ceremony. Basheer Al-Khewani was 18 years old at the time of the