Women's 100 metres hurdles final
Phil Minshull for the IAAF
19 October 2000 - Sweden's Susanna Kallur stopped off in Chile en-route to starting college in the United States and picked up the women's 100 metres gold medal as more than amply reward for her diversion.
Kallur, third two years ago in Annecy, didn't have the best of starts and was the second slowest of the eight finalists to leave her blocks, but by the time she got into her running there was only going to be one winner.
She stopped the clock at 13.02, the fastest time by a teenager in the world for three years and sliced one-hundredth of a second off the Swedish junior record she set in the semifinals on Wednesday.
Kallur, who was born in the United States when her father was a ice hockey professional there, would have certainly have gone under the 13 second barrier if the wind had been a bit more forgiving.
She ran into a 1.7 mps headwind but her outstanding technique - she didn't knock a single barrier down - ensured that victory was hers by the time she edged clear at the fourth hurdle.
France took both the silver and bronze medals with Fanny Gerance getting second place in a new personal best of 13.21, ahead of her compatriot Adrianna Lamalle, who clocked 13.27.
Kallur's non-identical twin Jenny - Susanna has blonde hair while her sister is brown - finished sixth in 13.30
