1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 80 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	80 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1952 (preliminary / semi-finals) July 24, 1952 (final)
Medalists Shirley Strickland ( AUS )   Marija Golubnitschaja ( URS )   Maria Sander ( GER )

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 23 and 24, 1952 in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki . 33 athletes took part.

The Australian Shirley Strickland became Olympic champion . She won in a new world record time ahead of Marija Golubnitschaja from the Soviet Union and the German Maria Sander .

Existing records

World record	11.0 s	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( Netherlands )	Amsterdam , Netherlands	June 20, 1948
Olympic record	11.2 s	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( Netherlands )	London finals , Great Britain	4th August 1948
		Maureen Gardner ( Great Britain )

Conducting the competition

The runners competed in six preliminary runs on July 23. The two best runners in each case qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. From the preliminary decisions, the first three starters reached the final on July 24th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 23, 4 p.m .: Preliminaries
July 23, 6:10 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 24, 4:25 p.m .: Final

Prelims

Date: July 23, 1952, from 4 p.m.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.0 s	11.03 s	WRe
2	Milena Greppi	Italy	11.7 s	11.95 s
3	Miyo Miyashita	Japan	11.8 s	12.06 s
4th	Colette Elloy	France	11.9 s	12.31 s
5	Jorun Askersrud-Tangen	Norway	12.2 s	12.51 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.2 s	11.34 s
2	Edna Maskell	South African Union	11.6 s	11.80 s
3	Klára Soós	Hungary	11.9 s	11.98 s
4th	Hilde Antes	Saarland	12.0 s	12.31 s
5	Nilima Ghose	India	12.9 s	13.07 s
DNF	Marion Huber	Chile

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Elene Gokieli	Soviet Union	11.5 s	11.59 s
2	Pamela Seaborne	Great Britain	11.5 s	11.62 s
3	Wilhelmina Lust	Netherlands	11.6 s	11.69 s
4th	Seija Pöntinen	Finland	11.8 s	12.22 s
5	Tang Pai Wah	Singapore	12.8 s	13.09 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	11.4 s	11.51 s
2	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.4 s	11.55 s
3	Luella Law	Canada	11.8 s	12.09 s
4th	Helene Bielansky	Austria	11.8 s	12.10 s
5	Sylvi Keskinen	Finland	12.4 s	12.68 s
6th	Leah Horowitz	Israel	12.4 s	12.74 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Maria Sander	BR Germany	11.3 s	11.41 s
2	Claudie Flament	France	11.5 s	11.83 s
3	Anna Alexandrowa	Soviet Union	11.5 s	11.86 s
4th	Maria Musso	Italy	11.9 s	12.17 s
5	Constance Darnowski	United States	12.1 s	12.29 s
6th	Aino Autio	Finland	12.1 s	12.31 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.29 s
2	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.3 s	11.58 s
3	Yvette Monginou	France	11.3 s	11.64 s
4th	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	11.4 s	11.74 s
5	Pauline Threapleton-Wainwright	Great Britain	11.9 s	11.88 s
6th	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	12.3 s	12.56 s

Semifinals

Date: July 23, 1952, from 6:10 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	10.8 s	11.16 s	not recognized as WR due to strong tail wind
2	Maria Sander	BR Germany	10.9 s	11.19 s
3	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	10.9 s	11.37 s
4th	Elene Gokieli	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.46 s
5	Edna Maskell	South African Union	11.2 s	11.50 s
6th	Milena Greppi	Italy	11.4 s	11.80 s

Run 2

Defending champion Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) did not finish in the final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.2 s	11.35 s
2	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.3 s	11.42 s
3	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.4s	11.70 s
4th	Pamela Seaborne	Great Britain	11.4 s	11.71 s
5	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.4 s	11.74 s
6th	Claudie Flament	France	11.6 s	11.89 s

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	10.9 s	11.01 s	WR
2	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.24 s
3	Maria Sander	BR Germany	11.1 s	11.38 s
4th	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.2 s	11.46 s
5	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	11.6 s	11.75 s
DNF	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands

Date: July 24, 1952, 4:25 p.m.

In the first run, the Australian Shirley Strickland equalized the world record of the Dutch Olympic champion from 1948 , Fanny Blankers-Koen. In the semifinals, the times achieved were not recognizable due to a strong tailwind - here Strickland was two tenths of a second faster.
In the final, Strickland and Blankers-Koen came out of the blocks equally well, while Marija Golubnitschaja from the USSR got off to a bad start. The Dutch woman, known as the “flying housewife”, was in poor health here. The third hurdle was knocked over by her, she then stopped the race. Strickland won the race by a clear margin and became the first woman to officially break the eleven-second mark over 80 meters . Two runners finished two tenths of a second later at the same time: Golubnitschaja achieved silver with a good finish, the German Maria Sander won bronze. Her compatriot Anneliese Seonbuchner, another tenth of a second behind, came fourth.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 104–106

Web links

• SportsReference 80m hurdles , accessed September 29, 2017
• Official report pp. 336–337, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 29, 2017
• Helsinki 1952 [Shirley Strickland 80m Hurdles (Amateur Footage)], published May 31, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed September 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948-1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 106
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)