1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 80 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	80 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 5, 1936 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 6, 1936 (final)
Winning time	11.7 s
Medalists Trebisonda Valla ( ITA ) Anni Steuer ( GER ) Elizabeth Taylor ( CAN )
← 1932 1948 →

Olympic Champion Trebisonda Valla (ITA)

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 5 and 6, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part.

The Italian Trebisonda Valla was Olympic champion ahead of the German Anni Steuer . Bronze went to Elizabeth Taylor from Canada .

Existing records

• World record : 11.6 s - Ruth Engelhard ( Germany ), London , August 11, 1934
• Olympic record : 11.7 seconds - Mildred Didrikson ( USA ), Los Angeles final , August 4, 1932

Conducting the competition

The athletes started four heats on August 5th. The three best runners in each case qualified for the semi-finals on the same day on which the top three runners reached the final on August 6th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

August 5, 1936, 3:30 p.m.
Weather conditions: slightly overcast, 17 ° C, tail wind at 3.0 m / s.
Not all times have been passed down.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Claudia Testoni	Italy	12.0 s
2	Kathleen Tiffen	Great Britain	12.2 s
3	Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou	Greece	12.6 s
4th	Mathilde Puchberger	Austria	k. A.
5	Yvonne Mabille	France

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Violet Webb	Great Britain	11.8 s
2	Doris Eckert	German Empire	12.0 s
3	Tidye Pickett	United States	12.4 s
4th	Miyoko Mitsui	Japan	k. A.
5	Veronika Kohlbach	Austria

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Elizabeth Taylor	Canada	12.0 s
2	Anne Vrana-O'Brien	United States	12.0 s
3	Anni Steuer	German Empire	12.1 s
4th	Grethe Whitehead	Great Britain	12.2 s
5	Agaath Doorgeest	Netherlands	k. A.
6th	Charlotte Machmer	Austria

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Simone Schaller	United States	11.8 s
2	Trebisonda Valla	Italy	11.9 s
3	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	12.0 s
4th	Roxy Atkins	Canada	k. A.
5	Hilde Klusenwerth	German Empire
6th	Zulejka Stefanini	Yugoslavia

Semifinals

August 5, 1936, 5.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 15 ° C, tail wind at 2.8 m / s.
Not all times have been passed down. Due to the strong tailwind, records achieved could not be recognized.

Run 1

Claudia Testoni (ITA) reached the final and was fourth there

Simone Schaller (USA) was eliminated in the semi-finals

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Trebisonda Valla	Italy	11.6 s
2	Elizabeth Taylor	Canada	11.7 s
3	Anni Steuer	German Empire	11.7 s
4th	Anne Vrana-O'Brien	United States	11.8 s
5	Violet Webb	Great Britain	11.8 s
6th	Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou	Greece	k. A.

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	11.8 s
2	Doris Eckert	German Empire	11.8 s
3	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.8 s
4th	Simone Schaller	United States	k. A.
5	Kathleen Tiffen	Great Britain
6th	Tidye Pickett	United States

final

Five of the six finalists (from left to right): Trebisonda Valla (ITA), Doris Eckert (DEU), Anni Steuer (DEU), Kitty ter Braake (NED) and Claudia Testoni (ITA)

August 6, 1936, 5.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: slightly cloudy, approx. 18 ° C, tail wind of 1.4 m / s.

Even before the final it was clear that it would be a very close race. And so it happened. The gold medal winner was the experienced Italian Trebisonda Valla, who was believed to have had the best of her career behind her. But she was in top shape to the minute. Silver went to the German Anni Steuer, completely surprisingly, at the German Championships with 12.3 seconds second behind Doris Eckert, who came in sixth here. The Canadian Elizabeth Taylor came third, ahead of Valla's compatriot Claudia Testoni.

The official times for the first four were all stopped with 11.7 s, which meant an Olympic record . The unofficial electronic measurement showed a difference of seven hundredths of a second between first and fourth place. Only the evaluation of the target photo provided information about the final order .

All three medalists won the first medals for their countries in this discipline.

For a better classification of the intervals, the unofficial electronically timed times are listed in the table below.

space	Surname	nation	official time	annotation	electron. time
1	Trebisonda Valla	Italy	11.7 s	OR	11.748 s
2	Anni Steuer	German Empire	11.7 s	OR	11.809 s
3	Elizabeth Taylor	Canada	11.7 s	OR	11,811 s
4th	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.7 s	OR	11.818 s
5	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	11.8 s		11.832 s
6th	Doris Eckert	German Empire	12.0 s		12.190 s

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 307f

Web links

• SportsReference 80m hurdles , accessed September 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 694–695, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 22, 2017
• Berlin 1936 - Olympics - Olympia - Athletics - Track and Field - Footage 3 , range 6:17 min - 7:16 min, published on October 7, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on September 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 308
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 694, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ Official report p. 695, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)