1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 15, 1964 (prelims / quarter-finals) October 16, 1964 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Wyomia Tyus ( USA )   Edith McGuire ( USA )   Ewa Kłobukowska ( POL )

The women's 100-meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 15 and 16, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 44 athletes took part.

The American Wyomia Tyus was Olympic champion ahead of her compatriot Edith McGuire . Bronze went to Ewa Kłobukowska from Poland .

Three Germans and one Austrian started, athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. Erika Pollmann was disqualified in the third run. Renate Meyer and Heilwig Jacob reached the quarter-finals like the Austrian Inge Aigner, but were eliminated in their runs.

Existing records

World record	11.2 s	Wilma Rudolph ( USA )	Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 19, 1961
Olympic record	11.3 s		Rome semifinals , Italy	2nd September 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of six heats on October 15th. The five best starters each qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day. From this, the four best runners reached the next round, the semi-finals, which, like the finals, took place on October 16. The four best athletes in each case qualified for the final.

Time schedule

October 15, 10 a.m .: Preliminaries
October 15, 2.30 p.m .: quarter-finals
October 16, 2 p.m .: semi-finals
October 16, 4.20 p.m .: final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Date: October 15, 1964, from 10 a.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 20–21 ° C, humidity approx. 60%

Forward 1

Wind: +2.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Marilyn White	United States	11.4 s	11.50 s
2	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	11.5 s	11.55 s
3	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	11.6 s	11.70 s
4th	Dianne Bowering	Australia	11.8 s	11.83 s
5	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.9 s	11.98 s
6th	Erzsébet Bartos	Hungary	11.9 s	12.01 s
7th	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	12.0 s	12.01 s

Forward 2

Wind: +1.29 m / s

Simin Safamehr was the first woman from Iran to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Edith McGuire	United States	11.4 s	11.47 s
2	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	11.8 s	11.89 s
3	Christiane Cadic	France	12.0 s	12.00 s
4th	Renate Meyer	Germany	12.0 s	12.01 s
5	Inge Aigner	Austria	12.0 s	12.05 s
6th	Marcela Daniel	Panama	12.6 s	12.60 s
7th	Simin Safamehr	Iran	13.2 s	k. A.

Forward 3

The Polish Ewa Kłobukowska made it to the final and won the bronze medal

Wind: −0.73 m / s

The official report does not indicate a victory time for Ewa Kłobukowska. The SportsReference database, on the other hand, shows both the hand-stopped and electronically measured time listed here. The official hand-timed time is listed identically in the literature by Ekkehard on Megede below.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.4 s	11.45 s
2	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.7 s	11.73 s
3	Danielle Guéneau	France	12.0 s	12.02 s
4th	Avis McIntosh	New Zealand	12.0 s	12.06 s
5	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	12.0 s	12.10 s
6th	Louise Sydranski	Israel	10.7 s	12.16 s
DSQ	Erika Pollmann	Germany

Forward 4

Eliminated in the preliminary run: Joke Bijleveld, Netherlands

Wind: +0.43 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.6 s	11.64 s
2	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	11.7 s	11.77 s
3	Galina Popova	Soviet Union	11.8 s	11.82 s
4th	Clarice Ahanotu	Nigeria	11.9 s	11.95 s
5	Irene Muyanga	Uganda	12.0 s	12.05 s
6th	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	12.3 s	12.35 s
7th	Delceita Oakley	Panama	12.3 s	12.38 s

Forward 5

Wind: +3.26 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.3 s	11.35 s
2	Halina Herrmann	Poland	11.5 s	11.56 s
3	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.5 s	11.59 s
4th	Margaret Burvill	Australia	11.6 s	11.68 s
5	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.7 s	11.79 s
6th	Esperanza Girón	Mexico	12.2 s	12.21 s
7th	Kusolwan Sorut	Thailand	12.6 s	k. A.
8th	Christiana Boateng	Ghana	12.9 s

Forward 6

Wind: +0.90 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Marilyn Black	Australia	11.5 s	11.58 s
2	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.6 s	11.67 s
3	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.8 s	11.89 s
4th	Galina Gaida	Soviet Union	11.9 s	11.94 s
5	Heilwig Jacob	Germany	11.9 s	11.96 s
6th	Madeleine Cobb	Great Britain	12.0 s	12.01 s
7th	Maria Formeiro	Argentina	12.2 s	12.20 s
8th	Song yang-yes	South Korea	12.7 s	k. A.

Quarter finals

Date: October 15, 1964, from 2.30 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 23 ° C, humidity approx. 42%

Run 1

Wind: +0.22 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.2 s	11.23 s	WRe / OR
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.5 s	11.54 s
3	Galina Popova	Soviet Union	11.5 s	11.54 s
4th	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.6 s	11.63 s
5	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	11.8 s	11.84 s
6th	Avis McIntosh	New Zealand	12.0 s	12.06 s
7th	Irene Muyanga	Uganda	12.2 s	12.24 s

Run 2

Wind: +1.15 m / s

The electronically measured times are not known.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Marilyn Black	Australia	11.4 s	k. A.
2	Marilyn White	United States	11.5 s
3	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	11.6 s
4th	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.7 s
5	Heilwig Jacob	Germany	11.7 s	k. A.
6th	Danielle Guéneau	France	11.8 s
7th	Clarice Ahanotu	Nigeria	11.8 s
8th	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	11.9 s

Run 3

Wind: +3.66 m / s

The electronically measured times are not known

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Edith McGuire	United States	11.4	k. A.
2	Halina Herrmann	Poland	11.5 s
3	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.5 s
4th	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.5 s
5	Dianne Bowering	Australia	11.7 s	k. A.
6th	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.9 s
7th	Inge Aigner	Austria	12.0 s
8th	Renate Meyer	Germany

Run 4

Wind: +1.89 m / s

The electronically measured times are not known

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.4 s	k. A.
2	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	11.5 s
3	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.6 s
4th	Margaret Burvill	Australia	11.7 s
5	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	11.8 s	k. A.
6th	Christiane Cadic	France	12.0 s
7th	Galina Gaida	Soviet Union	12.0 s

Semifinals

Date: October 16, 1964, from 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 22 ° C, humidity approx. 43%

Run 1

Wind: +0.20 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.6 s	11.62 s
2	Marilyn Black	Australia	11.6 s	11.63 s
3	Edith McGuire	United States	11.6 s	11.67 s
4th	Halina Herrmann	Poland	11.7 s	11.74 s
5	Galina Popova	Soviet Union	11.8 s	11.83 s
6th	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	11.8 s	11.84 s
7th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.9 s	11.91 s
8th	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.9 s	11.99 s

Run 2

Wind: +1.37 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.3 s	11.37 s
2	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.4 s	11.48 s
3	Marilyn White	United States	11.5 s	11.48 s
4th	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.6 s	11.49 s
5	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.7 s	11.56 s
6th	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	11.7 s	11.59 s
7th	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.7 s	11.63 s
8th	Margaret Burvill	Australia	11.8 s	11.68 s

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.4 s	11.49 s
2	Edith McGuire	United States	11.6 s	11.62 s
3	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.6 s	11.64 s
4th	Marilyn White	United States	11.6 s	11.67 s
5	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.7 s	11.72 s
6th	Marilyn Black	Australia	11.7 s	11.73 s
7th	Halina Herrmann	Poland	11.8 s	11.83 s
8th	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.9 s	11.90 s

Date: October 16, 1964, 4:20 p.m.

Wind: −1.25 m / s

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 20 ° C, humidity approx. 44%

The favorite was the US runner Edith McGuire, who had won the US eliminations. Wyomia Tuys, also USA, was given a medal chance, but McGuire was clearly rated higher. That changed in the quarterfinals, however, when Tuys equalized Wilma Rudolph's world record and at the same time set a new Olympic record .

In the final, an overwhelming US team with three runners met two Polish women, one British woman and one Australian woman. Edith McGuire, who was favored before these games, had to be satisfied with silver, clearly beaten. The impressive Wyomia Tyus won the first Olympic victory of her career. A headwind - 1.25 meters per second - was responsible for the fact that there were no better times. Ewa Kłobukowska from Poland prevented a triple success of the USA with her bronze medal.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 296f

Video

• Womens 100m final , published February 18, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed October 29, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed October 29, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 89f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 640 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 89 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 89f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 90 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
6. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 29, 2017