European Athletics Championships 1938/80 m hurdles for women

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Attendees	9 athletes from 4 countries
Competition phase	September 18 (preliminary / final)
Medalists
gold	Claudia Testoni ( ITA )
silver	Lisa Gelius ( GER )
bronze	Kitty ter Braake ( NED )

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 18, 1938 in Vienna's Prater Stadium.

European champion was the Italian Claudia Testoni . She set the existing world record with 11.6 seconds . The German Lisa Gelius won the silver medal. Bronze went to Kitty ter Braake from the Netherlands .

Existing records

World record	11.6 s	Ruth Engelhard	London , UK	August 11, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Preliminary round

September 18, 1938

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final. As the preliminary runs were each occupied by three runners, only one participant was eliminated from each race.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.8 CR
2	Lisa Gelius	German Empire	11.9
3	Ethel Raby	Great Britain	13.2

Ethel Raby - on the photo to the left of the South African Barbara Burke - was eliminated as third in the first heat

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Anny Spitzweg	German Empire	12.2
2	Agatha Doorgeest	Netherlands	12.3
3	Evelyn Matthews	Great Britain	12.3

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Annemarie Westphal	German Empire	11.9
2	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	12.0
3	Kate Robertson	Great Britain	12.3

final

September 18, 1938

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.6 WRe
2	Lisa Gelius	German Empire	11.7
3	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	11.8
4th	Annemarie Westphal	German Empire	12.0
5	Agatha Doorgeest	Netherlands	12.0
6th	Anny Spitzweg	German Empire	12.1

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  The Olympic champion in 1936 Claudia Testoni became European champion and equalized the existing  world record

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  Kitty ter Braake ( second from right in the 1936 Olympics ) won the bronze medal

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 14, 2019
• Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 14, 2019
• II European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 80 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
• 1st European Women's Athletics Championships 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ After the annexation of Austria by Germany at the time of these European championships, the German flag from that time must be used as a symbol. For a limited period of time, the Republic of Austria did not exist and was part of the German Empire. In Vienna itself, the corresponding flag was waved everywhere, and it is now being used here - even if, as in all other cases, with a certain degree of discomfort.
2. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 308