European Athletics Championships 1958/100 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	27 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 20 (preliminary) August 21 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Heather Young ( GBR )
silver	Wera Krepkina ( URS )
bronze	Christa Stubnick ( GER )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The 100-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1958 was held on August 20 and 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Briton Heather Young . She won ahead of the Soviet sprinter Wera Krepkina . Bronze went to Christa Stubnick from the GDR who came second in the 1956 Olympics .

Records

Existing records

World record	11.3 s	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Warsaw , Poland	4th August 1955
European record	11.5 s	Giuseppina Leone	Bologna , Italy	October 21, 1956
Championship record	11.7 s	Fanny Blankers-Koen	EM Brussels , Belgium	August 24, 1952 (preliminary)
				August 25, 1952 (final)

Record setting / record improvement

European champion Heather Young equalized the existing EM record once and improved it once:

• 11.7 s - 3rd lead, August 20
• 11.6s - 1st semifinals, August 21

Preliminary round

August 20, 1958, 10.30 a.m. / 3.55 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	11.8
2	Inge Fuhrmann	Germany	11.9
3	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	12.0
4th	Reidun Buer	Norway	12.8

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nonna Polyakova	Soviet Union	11.9
2	Christa Stubnick	Germany	11.9
3	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	12.1
4th	Vivi Markussen	Denmark	12.5

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heather Young	Great Britain	11.7 CRe
2	Elżbieta Ćmok	Poland	12.0
3	Juliette Angenieux	France	12.2
4th	Alice Fischer	Switzerland	12.4

Ine Spijk - here as the 800 meter winner in 1960 - was eliminated from fourth in her heat

Her fifth place in the fifth heat was not enough for Olga Šikovec to make it to the semifinals

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Madeleine Weston	Great Britain	12.0
2	Barbara Janiszewska	Poland	12.1
3	Britt Mårtensson	Sweden	12.4
4th	Ine Spijk	Netherlands	12.5
5	Alice Merz	Switzerland	13.4

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Wera Krepkina	Soviet Union	11.9
2	Anni Biechl	Germany	12.0
3	Catherine Capdevielle	France	12.1
4th	Sandra Valenti	Italy	12.3
5	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	12.4

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	12.0
2	Johanna Bloemhof	Netherlands	12.1
3	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	12.4
4th	Friedl Murauer	Austria	12.4
5	Stella Mousouri	Greece	13.1

Elżbieta Ćmok, later Elżbieta Szyroka, did not qualify for the finals after finishing sixth in the first semi-final

Eliminated in the second semi-final: Celina Jesionowska

Semifinals

August 21, 1958, 3 p.m.

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heather Young	Great Britain	11.6 CR
2	Wera Krepkina	Soviet Union	11.8
3	Anni Biechl	Germany	11.9
4th	Catherine Capdevielle	France	11.9
5	Britt Mårtensson	Sweden	12.3
6th	Elżbieta Ćmok	Poland	12.3

Run 2

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christa Stubnick	Germany	11.8
2	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	11.9
3	Johanna Bloemhof	Netherlands	12.2
4th	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	12.2
5	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	12.3
6th	Juliette Angenieux	France	12.6

Run 3

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Madeleine Weston	Great Britain	11.7
2	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	11.8
3	Nonna Polyakova	Soviet Union	11.9
4th	Inge Fuhrmann	Germany	12.0
5	Barbara Janiszewska	Poland	12.1
6th	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	12.3

• 

  Inge Fuhrmann had reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fourth place in her race

• 

  Barbara Janiszewska, later Barbara Sobotta, was fifth in her semi-final run and was not in the final - two days later she became European champion over 200 meters

• 

  Her sixth place in the third semi-final was not enough for Joke Bijleveld to qualify for the finals

final

European Champion Heather Young - in 1954 she was sixth

August 21, 1958, 6 p.m.

Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heather Young	Great Britain	11.7
2	Wera Krepkina	Soviet Union	11.7
3	Christa Stubnick	Germany	11.8
4th	Madeleine Weston	Great Britain	11.8
5	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	11.8
6th	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	11.9

• 

  Bronze medal for the 1956 Olympic runner-up Christa Stubnick

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 2, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed on May 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 2, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed May 2, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 100 m Women on rfea.es, p. 47 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 2, 2019