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	3 August 1948 (Heats & semifinals) 4 August 1948 (Final)
Competitors	21 from 6 nations
Winning time	11.2 WR
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen   Netherlands Maureen Gardner   Great Britain Shirley Strickland   Australia
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The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place on 3 and 4 August. The final was won by Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen. ^[1]

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)

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 3 August 1948	15:00 17:00	Round 1 Semifinals
Wednesday, 4 August 1948	16:00	Final

Results

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	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	Athlete	Nation	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	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Yvette Monginou	France	11.7
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.9
3	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	11.9
4	Bernice Robinson	United States	11.9	Est
5	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	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	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.4
2	Maria Oberbreyer	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	Athlete	Nation	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	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.2	OR
	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.2	OR
	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.4
4	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8	Est
5	Maria Oberbreyer	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

1. "Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 80 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

External links

• 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.