Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

The women's 100 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 24–25 July.[1]

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date24–25 July
Competitors39 from 21 nations
Winning time11.08
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Annegret Richter
 West Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Renate Stecher
 East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Inge Helten
 West Germany
← 1972
1980 →

Competition format edit

The women's 100m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Quarterfinals, Semifinals and a Final. The five fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Quarterfinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Quarterfinal races qualified for the Semifinals, where again the four fastest runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records edit

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

World record   Inge Helten (FRG) 11.04 Fürth, West Germany June 13, 1976
Olympic record   Renate Stecher (GDR) 11.07 Munich, East Germany 2 September 1972

Results edit

Heats edit

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Inge Helten   West Germany 11.26 Q
2 Lyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova   Soviet Union 11.30 Q
3 Rosie Allwood   Jamaica 11.35 Q
4 Marjorie Bailey   Canada 11.46 Q
5 Sharon Colyear-Danville   Great Britain 11.47 Q
6 Carol Cummings   Jamaica 11.69 q
7 Lorna Forde   Barbados 12.02

Heat 2 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Brenda Morehead   United States 11.35 Q
2 Patty Loverock   Canada 11.47 Q
3 Lelieth Hodges   Jamaica 11.54 Q
4 Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia   Brazil 11.80 Q
5 Debbie Jones   Bermuda 11.84 Q
6 Rita Hendricks   Virgin Islands 13.51

Heat 3 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Raelene Boyle   Australia 11.39 Q
2 Linda Haglund   Sweden 11.40 Q
3 Sue Jowett   New Zealand 11.70 Q
4 Isabel Taylor   Cuba 11.73 Q
5 Margaret Howe   Canada 11.83 Q
6 Shonel Ferguson   Bahamas 12.26

Heat 4 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Chandra Cheeseborough   United States 11.28 Q
2 Vera Anisimova   Soviet Union 11.37 Q
3 Silvia Chivás   Cuba 11.43 Q
4 Elvira Possekel   West Germany 11.48 Q
5 Denise Robertson   Australia 11.50 Q
6 Martina Blos   East Germany 11.70
7 Carolina Rieuwpassa   Indonesia 11.98

Heat 5 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Marlies Oelsner   East Germany 11.36 Q
2 Andrea Lynch   Great Britain 11.40 Q
3 Sylviane Telliez   France 11.47 Q
4 Nadezhda Besfamilnaya   Soviet Union 11.52 Q
5 Lea Alaerts   Belgium 11.63 Q
6 Divina Estrella   Dominican Republic 12.12

Heat 6 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Annegret Richter   West Germany 11.19 Q
2 Renate Stecher   East Germany 11.21 Q
3 Evelyn Ashford   United States 11.25 Q
4 Debbie Wells   Australia 11.47 Q
5 Carmen Valdés   Cuba 11.47 Q
6 Mona-Lisa Pursiainen   Finland 11.62 q
7 Antoinette Gauthier   Haiti 13.11

Quarterfinals edit

Quarterfinal 1 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Annegret Richter   West Germany 11.05 Q, OR
2 Marlies Oelsner   East Germany 11.27 Q
3 Rosie Allwood   Jamaica 11.34 Q
4 Patty Loverock   Canada 11.50 Q
5 Nadezhda Besfamilnaya   Soviet Union 11.63
6 Sylviane Telliez   France 11.64
7 Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia   Brazil 11.77
Debbie Jones   Bermuda DNS

Quarterfinal 2 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Inge Helten   West Germany 11.20 Q
2 Chandra Cheeseborough   United States 11.36 Q
3 Andrea Lynch   Great Britain 11.36 Q
4 Linda Haglund   Sweden 11.48 Q
5 Carmen Valdés   Cuba 11.52
6 Denise Robertson-Boyd   Australia 11.56
7 Carol Cummings   Jamaica 11.75
8 Sue Jowett   New Zealand 11.81

Quarterfinal 3 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Evelyn Ashford   United States 11.28 Q
2 Raelene Boyle   Australia 11.29 Q
3 Lyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova   Soviet Union 11.37 Q
4 Silvia Chivás   Cuba 11.42 Q
5 Sharon Colyear-Danville   Great Britain 11.51
6 Elvira Possekel   West Germany 11.58
7 Lea Alaerts   Belgium 11.71
8 Margaret Howe   Canada 11.96

Quarterfinal 4 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Renate Stecher   East Germany 11.22 Q
2 Brenda Morehead   United States 11.30 Q
3 Marjorie Bailey   Canada 11.44 Q
4 Vera Anisimova   Soviet Union 11.47 Q
5 Debbie Wells   Australia 11.51
6 Lelieth Hodges   Jamaica 11.58
7 Mona-Lisa Pursiainen   Finland 11.72
8 Isabel Taylor   Cuba 11.92

Semifinals edit

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Annegret Richter   West Germany 11.01 Q, WR
2 Evelyn Ashford   United States 11.21 Q
3 Chandra Cheeseborough   United States 11.26 Q
4 Marlies Oelsner   East Germany 11.29 Q
5 Rosie Allwood   Jamaica 11.32
6 Vera Anisimova   Soviet Union 11.39
7 Silvia Chivás   Cuba 11.43
8 Marjorie Bailey   Canada 11.47

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Renate Stecher   East Germany 11.10 Q
2 Inge Helten   West Germany 11.18 Q
3 Raelene Boyle   Australia 11.22 Q
4 Andrea Lynch   Great Britain 11.28 Q
5 Lyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova   Soviet Union 11.34
6 Brenda Morehead   United States 11.38
7 Patty Loverock   Canada 11.40
8 Linda Haglund   Sweden 11.41

Final edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time
  Annegret Richter   West Germany 11.08
  Renate Stecher   East Germany 11.13
  Inge Helten   West Germany 11.17
4 Raelene Boyle   Australia 11.23
5 Evelyn Ashford   United States 11.24
6 Chandra Cheeseborough   United States 11.31
7 Andrea Lynch   Great Britain 11.32
8 Marlies Oelsner   East Germany 11.34

References edit

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Women's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

External links edit