1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 100 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 athletes from 10 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 1, 1932 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 2, 1932 (final) |
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The women's 100-meter run at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 1 and 2, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Twenty athletes took part. Starting pistols , electronic timekeeping and target photos were used for the first time at the Olympic Games , but electronic timekeeping was only used unofficially.
Olympic champion was Stanisława Walasiewicz from Poland ahead of Hilda Strike from Canada . The US runner Wilhelmina von Bremen won the bronze medal.
Existing records
- World record : 11.9 s - Tollien Schuurman ( Netherlands ), Haarlem , June 5, 1932
- Olympic record : 12.2s - Betty Robinson ( USA ), Amsterdam Olympic final , July 31, 1928
Conducting the competition
On August 1st, the runners competed in four preliminary runs. The three fastest athletes in each case qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. From the preliminary rounds, the three first placed came into the final, which was held on August 2nd.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
Date: August 1, 1932
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Marie Dollinger | German Empire | 12.2 s | ORe |
2 | Wilhelmina of Bremen | United States | 12.3 s | |
3 | Hilda Strike | Canada | 12.3 s | |
4th | Gwendoline Porter | Great Britain | 12.4 s | |
5 | Marjorie Clark | South African Union | 12.5 s |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Stanisława Walasiewicz | Poland | 11.9 s | WRe |
2 | Mary Frizzell | Canada | 12.1 s | |
3 | Sumiko Watanabe | Japan | 12.2 s | |
4th | Elly du Mée | Netherlands | 12.3 s |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tollien Schuurman | Netherlands | 12.2 s | |
2 | Mary Vandervliet | Canada | 12.3 s | |
3 | Eileen Hiscock | Great Britain | 12.3 s | |
4th | Eileen Wearne | Australia | 12.5 s | |
5 | Ethel Harrington | United States | 12.7 s | |
6th | Taka Shibata | Japan | 12.7 s |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Elizabeth Wilde | United States | 12.4 s | |
2 | Cornelia Aalten | Netherlands | 12.4 s | |
3 | Thelma Kench | New Zealand | 12.4 s | |
4th | Asa Dogura | Japan | 12.9 s | |
5 | Ethel Johnson | Great Britain | 13.9 s |
Semifinals
Date: August 1, 1932
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Hilda Strike | Canada | 12.4 s | |
2 | Elizabeth Wilde | United States | 12.4 s | |
3 | Marie Dollinger | German Empire | 12.4 s | |
4th | Tollien Schuurman | Netherlands | 12.4 s | |
5 | Sumiko Watanabe | Japan | k. A. | |
6th | Thelma Kench | New Zealand |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Stanisława Walasiewicz | Poland | 11.9 s | WRe |
2 | Wilhelmina of Bremen | United States | 12.1 s | |
3 | Eileen Hiscock | Great Britain | 12.3 s | |
4th | Mary Vandervliet | Canada | 12.3 s | |
5 | Mary Frizzell | Canada | 12.3 s | |
6th | Cornelia Aalten | Netherlands | 12.4 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Stanisława Walasiewicz | Poland | 11.9 s | WRe |
2 | Hilda Strike | Canada | 11.9 s | WRe |
3 | Wilhelmina of Bremen | United States | 12.0 s | |
4th | Marie Dollinger | German Empire | 12.2 s | |
5 | Eileen Hiscock | Great Britain | 12.3 s | |
6th | Elizabeth Wilde | United States | 12.3 s |
Date: August 2, 1932
In the final there was an exciting and high-class duel between the Pole Stanisława Walasiewicz - later active in the USA under the name Stella Walsh - and the Canadian Hilda Strike. With the better start, Strike was slightly ahead at the beginning. But Walasiewicz caught up and was just ahead of the Canadian at the finish. Both runners set the existing world record with 11.9 s.
In this competition, too, the jury was not particularly competent. The placement of the American Wilhelmina von Bremen in third place was still clear. But behind that, the officials first put Eileen Hiscock in fourth and Marie Dollinger and Elizabeth Wilde together in fifth. Only the much later evaluation of the target film recordings resulted in the correction of the result as listed here.
Stanisława Walasiewicz set the world record of 11.9 seconds in all of her three runs.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 247f
Web links
- SportsReference 100 m , accessed September 18, 2017
- Official report pp. 465–467, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 640 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)