Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

The women's 80 metres hurdles hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1.[1]

Women's 80 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesAugust 31(heats and semifinals)
September 1 (final)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Irina Press
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carole Quinton
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gisela Birkemeyer
 United Team of Germany
← 1956
1964 →

Results edit

Heats edit

The top two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Irina Press   Soviet Union 10.91 OR
2 Carole Quinton   Great Britain 11.07
3 Draga Stamejčič   Yugoslavia 11.47
4 Ulla-Britt Wieslander   Sweden 11.60
5 Irene Robertson   United States 11.69

Heat 2 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Mary Bignal-Rand   Great Britain 11.40
2 Norma Thrower   Australia 11.54
3 Snezhana Kerkova   Bulgaria 11.73
4 Wanda dos Santos   Brazil 11.84
5 Bertha Díaz   Cuba 11.84

Heat 3 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Rimma Koshelyova   Soviet Union 11.26
2 Denise Laborie-Guénard   France 11.37
3 Alena Stolzová   Czechoslovakia 11.59
4 Jo Ann Terry-Grissom   United States 11.59

Heat 4 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Gisela Birkemeyer   United Team of Germany 11.31
2 Barbara Sosgórnik   Poland 11.56
3 Pat Nutting   Great Britain 11.65
4 Sally McCallum   Canada 11.90
5 Friedl Murauer   Austria 12.08

Heat 5 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Karin Balzer   United Team of Germany 11.40
2 Teresa Ciepły   Poland 11.46
3 Simone Brièrre   France 11.75
4 Gloria Cooke-Wigney   Australia 11.89

Heat 6 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Zenta Gastl-Kopp   United Team of Germany 11.10
2 Galina Bystrova   Soviet Union 11.26
3 Letizia Bertoni   Italy 11.54
4 Shirley Crowder   United States 12.43
5 Chi Cheng   Formosa 12.71

Semifinal edit

The top three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat 1 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Galina Bystrova   Soviet Union 11.16
2 Mary Bignal-Rand   Great Britain 11.16
3 Rimma Koshelyova   Soviet Union 11.22
4 Karin Balzer   United Team of Germany 11.27
5 Norma Thrower   Australia 11.44
6 Barbara Sosgórnik   Poland 11.46

Heat 2 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Irina Press   Soviet Union 10.77 OR
2 Gisela Birkemeyer   United Team of Germany 11.01
3 Carole Quinton   Great Britain 11.07
4 Zenta Gastl-Kopp   United Team of Germany 11.09
5 Teresa Ciepły   Poland 11.40
6 Denise Laborie-Guénard   France 11.51

Final edit

Wind = 0.0 m/s.

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
  Irina Press   Soviet Union 10.93
  Carole Quinton   Great Britain 10.99
  Gisela Birkemeyer   United Team of Germany 11.13
4 Mary Bignal-Rand   Great Britain 11.22
5 Galina Bystrova   Soviet Union 11.26
6 Rimma Koshelyova   Soviet Union 11.28

Key: OR = Olympic record

 
80 m final. Birkemeyer and Press are in the center, Quinton is on the left

References edit

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 80 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2017.