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.

Results

Heats

The top two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Irina Press10.91OR
2Carole Quinton11.07
3Draga Stamejčič11.47
4Ulla-Britt Wieslander11.60
5Irene Robertson11.69

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Mary Bignal-Rand11.40
2Norma Thrower11.54
3Snezhana Kerkova11.73
4Wanda dos Santos11.84
5Bertha Díaz11.84

Heat three
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Rimma Koshelyova11.26
2Denise Laborie-Guénard11.37
3Alena Stolzová11.59
4Jo Ann Terry-Grissom11.59

Heat four
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Gisela Birkemeyer11.31
2Barbara Sosgórnik11.56
3Pat Nutting11.65
4Sally McCallum11.90
5Friedl Murauer12.08

Heat five
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Karin Balzer11.40
2Teresa Ciepły11.46
3Simone Brièrre11.75
4Gloria Cooke-Wigney11.89

Heat six
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Zenta Gastl-Kopp11.10
2Galina Bystrova11.26
3Letizia Bertoni11.54
4Shirley Crowder12.43
5Chi Cheng12.71

Semifinal

The top three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Galina Bystrova11.16
2Mary Bignal-Rand11.16
3Rimma Koshelyova11.22
4Karin Balzer11.27
5Norma Thrower11.44
6Barbara Sosgórnik11.46

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Irina Press10.77OR
2Gisela Birkemeyer11.01
3Carole Quinton11.07
4Zenta Gastl-Kopp11.09
5Teresa Ciepły11.40
6Denise Laborie-Guénard11.51

Final

= 0.0 m/s.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Irina Press10.93
Carole Quinton10.99
Gisela Birkemeyer11.13
4Mary Bignal-Rand11.22
5Galina Bystrova11.26
6Rimma Koshelyova11.28

Key: OR = Olympic record