80 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling run by women until 1972 in international competitions.

Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.[1]

Masters athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is still in use in Masters athletics in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.[2]

Youth athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is also in use in the 11- to 12-year-old division, previously called the "Midget" division.[3]

History

  • First official time: 13.0 seconds, Ludmila Sychrová, Czechoslovakia, July 6, 1926
  • First official world record: 12.8 seconds, Eva von Bredow, Germany, June 14, 1927
  • First runner under 12 seconds: 11.8 seconds, Babe Didrikson, United States, August 3, 1932
  • First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds, Shirley Strickland, AUS, July 24, 1952
  • Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, Vera Korsakova, USSR, June 16, 1968
  • Maureen Caird's winning time of 10.39A at the 1968 Olympics is intrinsically better than the hand timed official record, but at the time, IAAF did not have any rules in place to recognize automatic times. When those rules were put in place in 1977, which recognized records set in the 1968 Olympics in many other events, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade.

Olympic medalists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1932 Los Angeles
 Babe Didrikson
 United States		 Evelyne Hall
 United States		 Marjorie Clark
 South Africa
1936 Berlin
 Ondina Valla
 Italy		 Anni Steuer
 Germany		 Elizabeth Taylor
 Canada
1948 London
 Fanny Blankers-Koen
 Netherlands		 Maureen Gardner
 Great Britain		 Shirley Strickland
 Australia
1952 Helsinki
 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
 Australia		 Maria Golubnichaya
 Soviet Union		 Maria Sander
 Germany
1956 Melbourne
 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
 Australia		 Gisela Köhler
 United Team of Germany		 Norma Thrower
 Australia
1960 Rome
 Irina Press
 Soviet Union		 Carole Quinton
 Great Britain		 Gisela Birkemeyer
 United Team of Germany
1964 Tokyo
 Karin Balzer
 United Team of Germany		 Teresa Ciepły
 Poland		 Pam Kilborn
 Australia
1968 Mexico City
 Maureen Caird
 Australia		 Pam Kilborn
 Australia		 Chi Cheng
 Taiwan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Women's 80/100 Meters Hurdles - Del's Athletics Almanac". athletics.hitsites.de. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Appendices A-K" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  3. ↑ "Hurdle Placement & Height Comparison" (PDF). USA Track & Field. February 2011.
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