1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 80 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	80 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	36 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	August 31, 1960 (preliminary / semi-finals) September 1, 1960 (final)
Medalists Irina Press ( URS )   Carole Quinton ( GBR )   Gisela Birkemeyer ( GER )

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on August 31 and September 1, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 36 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Irina Press from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the British Carole Quinton and the German Gisela Birkemeyer .

Two other runners took part for Germany. Karin Richert and Zenta Kopp were both eliminated in the quarter-finals. Friedl Murauer started for Austria, but failed in its preliminary run. Runners from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	10.5 s	Gisela Birkemeyer ( GDR )	Leipzig , GDR (now Germany )	July 24, 1960
Olympic record	10.7 s	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty ( Australia )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 28, 1956

Conducting the competition

The runners competed in six preliminary runs on August 31. The two fastest runners qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. The three best athletes from the preliminary rounds reached the final on September 1st.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

August 31, 10:25 a.m .: Preliminary
August 31, 5:20 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 1, 5:10 p.m .: Final

Prelims

Date: August 31, 1960, from 10:25 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.7 s	10.91 s	ORe
2	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	10.9 s	11.07 s
3	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	11.3 s	11.47 s
4th	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	11.5 s	11.60 s
5	Irene Robertson	United States	11.6 s	11.69 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Mary Bignal	Great Britain	11.2 s	11.40 s
2	Norma Thrower	Australia	11.4 s	11.54 s
3	Sneschana Kerkowa	Bulgaria	11.6 s	11.73 s
4th	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.7 s	11.84 s
5	Bertha Díaz	Cuba	11.7 s	11.83 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.26 s
2	Denise Laborie-Guénard	France	11.2 s	11.37 s
3	Alena Stolzová	Czechoslovakia	11.4 s	11.59 s
4th	Jo Ann Terry-Grissom	United States	11.4 s	11.58 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Gisela Birkemeyer	Germany	11.2 s	11.31 s
2	Barbara Sosgórnik	Poland	11.4 s	11.56 s
3	Pat Nutting	Great Britain	11.5 s	11.65 s
4th	Sally McCallum	Canada	11.7 s	11.90 s
5	Friedl Murauer	Austria	11.9 s	12.08 s

Forward 5

Teresa Ciepły from Poland was eliminated in the semi-finals.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Karin Richert	Germany	11.2 s	11.40 s
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.3 s	11.46 s
3	Simone Brièrre	France	11.6 s	11.75 s
4th	Gloria Wigney	Australia	11.7 s	11.89 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Zenta Kopp	Germany	10.9 s	11.10 s
2	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.26 s
3	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	11.4 s	11.54 s
4th	Shirley Crowder	United States	12.3 s	12.43 s
5	Chi Cheng	Taiwan	12.6 s	12.71 s

Semifinals

The German Karin Richert - four years later Olympic champion - failed in the semi-finals.

Date: August 31, 1960, from 5:20 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	11.0 s	11.16 s
2	Mary Bignal	Great Britain	11.0 s	11.16 s
3	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	11.1 s	11.22 s
4th	Karin Richert	Germany	11.1 s	11.27 s
5	Norma Thrower	Australia	11.3 s	11.46 s
6th	Barbara Sosgórnik	Poland	11.3 s	11.44 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.6 s	10.77 s	OR
2	Gisela Birkemeyer	Germany	10.9 s	11.01 s
3	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	11.0 s	11.07 s
4th	Zenta Kopp	Germany	11.0 s	11.09 s
5	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.2 s	11.40 s
6th	Denise Laborie-Guénard	France	11.4 s	11.51 s

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.8 s	10.93 s
2	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	10.9 s	10.99 s
3	Gisela Birkemeyer	Germany	11.0 s	11.13 s
4th	Mary Bignal	Great Britain	11.1 s	11.22 s
5	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	11.2s	11.26 s
6th	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	11.2 s	11.28 s

Date: September 1, 1960, 5:10 p.m.

Except for the Australian Norma Thrower, all medal contenders reached the final. In the run-up to and then in the semifinals, the favored Soviet hurdler Irina Press had equalized the Olympic record and then improved it, missing the world record by only a tenth of a second. Irina Press, sister of the shot putter and discus thrower Tamara Press , was also extremely successful as a pentathlete during these years. She lived up to her role as a favorite and won this race. Silver went to the British Carole Quinton. The German Gisela Birkemeyer got off to a bad start. She initially struggled to get away from last place, but still won the bronze medal with great fighting spirit. Behind her, the second British rider, Mary Bignal, placed fourth in front of the two other Soviet runners Galina Bystrowa and Rimma Koscheljowa.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 225f

Videos

• 1960 80 OSTACOLI FEMMINILE ORO IRINA PRESS , published February 6, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed October 22, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 80m hurdles , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report p. 192f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 192 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 193 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 22, 2017