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

Women's 80 metres hurdles

at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 31(heats and semifinals)
September 1 (final)

Medalists

	Irina Press Soviet Union
	Carole Quinton Great Britain
	Gisela Birkemeyer United Team of Germany

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

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

Results

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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 three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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 four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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 five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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 six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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	Republic of China	12.71

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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 two

Rank	Name	Nationality	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

Wind = 0.0 m/s.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.93
02 !	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	10.99
03 !	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

Sprint hurdles at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men's 110 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women's 80 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968

Women's 100 m	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

See also: Men's 200 m hurdles 1900 • 1904

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