Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	August 3 (Heats & semifinals) August 4 (Final)
Competitors	6 from 6 nations
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen Netherlands   Maureen Gardner Great Britain   Shirley Strickland Australia

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place August 3 and August 4. The final was won by Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record	Claudia Testoni (ITA)  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	11.3	Dresden, Germany Amsterdam, Netherlands	13 August 1939 20 September 1942
Olympic Record	Ondina Valla (ITA)	11.6	Berlin, Germany	5 August 1936

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
4 August	Final	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	11.2	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Round 1

Round 1 took place on 3 August. The fastest three runners in each heat advanced to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.3	OR
2	Joan Upton	Great Britain	11.8
3	Jeanine Toulouse	France	12.0
4	Mirja Jämes	Finland
5	Marion Huber	Chile
6	Theresa Manuel	United States

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.6
2	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	11.8
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	11.8
4	Janine Magnin-Lamouche	France	11.9
5	Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavoudinou	Greece

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yvette Monginou	France	11.7
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.9
3	Maria Overbreyer-Trösch	Austria	11.9
4	Bernice Robinson	United States	11.9	Est
5	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	12.2
2	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	12.2
3	Jean Walraven	United States	12.6
4	Kyllikki Naukkarinen	Finland
5	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica

Semifinals

Semifinals took place on 3 August. The top three runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.4
2	Maria Overbreyer-Trösch	Austria	11.9
3	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	12.0
4	Joan Upton	Great Britain
5	Jeanine Toulouse	France
6	Jean Walraven	United States

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.7
2	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8
3	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.8
4	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina
5	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands
6	Elfriede Steurer	Austria

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
01 !	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.2	OR
02 !	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.2	OR
03 !	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.4
4	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8	Est
5	Maria Oberbreyer-Trösch	Austria	11.8	Est
6	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	11.9	Est

Key: Est = Time is an estimate, OR = Olympic record

Wind: 1.9 m/s

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 80 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-19.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.