1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	July 31, 1948 (prelims) August 2, 1948 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Fanny Blankers-Koen ( NED )   Dorothy Manley ( GBR )   Shirley Strickland ( AUS )

The women's 100-meter run at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held on July 31 and August 2, 1948 at Wembley Stadium . 33 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Fanny Blankers-Koen from the Netherlands, ahead of Dorothy Manley from Britain . The Australian Shirley Strickland won bronze .

Existing records

• World record : 11.4 s - Fanny Blankers-Koen ( Netherlands ), Amsterdam , June 13, 1948
• Olympic record : 11.9 s - Stanisława Walasiewicz ( Poland ), Olympic competition in Los Angeles , August 1 (preliminary and semi-finals) and August 2, 1932 (finals) / Helen Stephens ( USA ), Los Angeles, finals , 2 August 1932

Conducting the competition

The runners started the prelims on July 31st. A total of nine runs were completed. The two best runners in each case qualified for the semi-finals, which took place on August 2nd. From the semi-finals, the first two runners qualified for the final on the same day.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

July 31, 1948, 2:45 p.m.

Not all times have been passed down.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0 s
2	Viola Myers	Canada	12.5 s
3	Betty McKinnon	Australia	12.7 s
4th	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria

Forward 2

Noemí Simonetto de Portela (ARG) failed in the run-up

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4 s
2	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.9 s
3	Noëmi Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	13.1 s
4th	Benedicta de Oliveira	Brazil
5	Tilly Decker	Luxembourg

Forward 3

The Australian Joyce King was eliminated in the preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Grete Lovsø	Denmark	12.6 s
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	12.7 s
3	Audrey Patterson	United States	12.8 s
4th	Joyce King	Australia
5	Beatriz Kretschmer	Chile

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.4 s
2	Daphne Hasenjager	South African Union	12.4 s
3	Mabel Walker	United States	12.8 s
4th	Millie Cheater	Canada

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Doris Batter	Great Britain	12.6 s
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	12.9 s
3	Lillian Young	United States	13.0 s
4th	Elizabeth Mueller	Brazil

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.1 s
2	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda	13.0 s
3	Marie-Thérèse Renard	Belgium	13.6 s

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Olga Šicnerová	Czechoslovakia	12.4 s
2	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark	12.6 s
3	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	13.2 s
4th	About Teoman	Turkey

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.8 s
2	Xenia Stad-de Jong	Netherlands	12.9 s
3	Phyllis Edness	Bermuda	13.6 s
4th	Grete Pavlousek	Austria
5	Alma Butia	Yugoslavia

Forward 9

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.7 s
2	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands	12.9 s
3	Jeanine Moussier	France	12.9 s
4th	Liv Paulsen	Norway

Semifinals

August 2, 1948, 3:30 p.m.

Not all times have been passed down.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0 s
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4 s
3	Grete Lovsø	Norway	12.7 s
4th	Doris Batter	Great Britain
5	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy
6th	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.4 s
2	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.6 s
3	Daphne Hasenjager	South African Union	12.7 s
4th	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark
5	Xenia Stad-de Jong	Netherlands
6th	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Viola Myers	Canada	12.4 s
2	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.5 s
3	Olga Šicnerová	Czechoslovakia	12.5 s
3	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.5 s
5	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain
6th	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands

Olympic Champion Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9 s	ORe
2	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.2 s
3	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.2 s
4th	Viola Myers	Canada
5	Patricia Jones	Canada
6th	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica

August 2, 1948, 4:45 p.m.

In the final, the Dutch world record holder Blankers-Koen was the top favorite. Local hero Dorothy Manley was most likely to be trusted to challenge the "flying housewife". In fact, the Brit got off to a good start, but Blankers-Koen countered and won with a comfortable margin.

Fanny Blankers-Koen achieved the first Dutch Olympic victory in athletics. For them it was the first of four Olympic victories in London.
Dorothy Manley (GBR) and Shirley Strickland (AUS) won their countries' first medals in this discipline.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 44f

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed 23 August 2017
• Official report p. 277, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 23, 2017
• The Incredible Dominance Of Fanny Blankers-Koen | Olympic Records , published December 28, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed August 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 640 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)