1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 80 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	80 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 18, 1964 (prelims) October 19, 1964 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Karin Balzer ( GER )   Teresa Ciepły ( POL )   Pam Kilborn ( AUS )

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo took place on October 18 and 19, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 27 athletes took part.

The German Karin Balzer became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Polish Teresa Ciepły and the Australian Pam Kilborn .

In addition to the Olympic champion, Gundula Diel was another German competitor. She qualified for the semi-finals and was eliminated there in seventh place in her run. Inge Aigner started for Austria. She was eliminated in her advance. 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
		Betty Moore ( Great Britain )	Kassel , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	August 25, 1962
		Karin Balzer ( GDR )	Leipzig , GDR (now Germany )	May 23, 1964
		Irina Press ( Soviet Union )	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	August 9, 1964
				August 28, 1964
		Draga Stamejčič ( Yugoslavia )	Celje , Yugoslavia (now Slovenia )	5th September 1964
Olympic record	10.6 s	Irina Press ( Soviet Union )	Rome semifinals , Italy	August 31, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of four heats on October 18th. The four best starters qualified for the semi-finals on October 19th. From this, the four best runners reached the final on the same day.

Time schedule

October 18, 2:50 p.m .: Preliminaries
October 19, 2 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 19, 3:20 p.m .: Final

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

Characters and abbreviations

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

Prelims

Date: October 18, 1964, from 2:50 p.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 14 ° C, humidity 97%

Forward 1

Wind: +0.90 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Karin Balzer	Germany	10.7 s	10.71 s
2	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	10.9 s	10.96 s
3	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.3 s	11.34 s
4th	Sneschana Kerkowa	Bulgaria	11.5 s	11.50 s
5	Lorraine Dunn	Panama	11.5 s	11.53 s
DSQ	Amy Snider	Canada

Forward 2

1960 Olympic champion Irina Press, USSR finished fourth in the final

Wind: +2.54 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.7 s	10.77 s
2	Pat Pryce	Great Britain	10.8 s	10.82 s
3	Avis McIntosh	New Zealand	10.8 s	10.84 s
4th	Gundula Diel	Germany	10.9 s	10.94 s
5	Cherrie Sherrard	United States	11.0 s	11.00 s
6th	Marlène Canguio	France	11.0 s	11.09 s
7th	Chi Cheng	Taiwan	11.1 s	11.18 s
8th	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	11.2 s	11.23 s

Forward 3

The Polish Maria Piątkowska reached sixth place in the final

Wind: +6.44 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	10.6 s	10.67 s
2	Pam Kilborn	Australia	10.7 s	10.79 s
3	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	10.9 s	10.92 s
4th	Lacey O'Neal	United States	10.9 s	10.93 s
5	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.8 s	k. A.
6th	Yeh Chu-mei	Taiwan	12.1 s

Forward 4

Preliminary 4 (from left to right): Jenny Wingerson from Canada, the Polish Teresa Ciepły, Ikuko Yoda from Japan and Draga Stamejčič, Yugoslavia

Wind: +4.16 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Rosie Bonds	United States	10.6 s	10.64 s
2	Ikuko Yoda	Japan	10.7 s	10.71 s
3	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	10.7 s	10.73 s
4th	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	10.8 s	10.84 s
5	Jenny Wingerson	Canada	11.1 s	11.16 s
6th	Inge Aigner	Austria	11.2 s	11.27 s
7th	Mary Musani	Uganda	12.9 s	k. A.

Semifinals

Date: October 19, 1964, from 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 20 ° C, humidity 40%

Run 1

Wind: +0.13 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Pam Kilborn	Australia	10.6 s	10.69 s	ORe
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	10.7 s	10.77 s
3	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.8 s	10.85 s
4th	Rosie Bonds	United States	10.8 s	10.87 s
5	Avis McIntosh	New Zealand	10.9 s	10.90 s
6th	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	10.9 s	10.98 s
7th	Gundula Diel	Germany	11.0 s	11.05 s
8th	Sneschana Kerkowa	Bulgaria	11.4 s	11.41 s

Run 2

In the final in fifth place: The Japanese Ikuko Yoda

Wind: +1.71 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Karin Balzer	Germany	10.6 s	10.65 s	ORe
2	Ikuko Yoda	Japan	10.7 s	10.72 s
3	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	10.7 s	10.73 s
4th	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	10.7 s	10.75 s
5	Pat Pryce	Great Britain	10.7 s	10.75 s
6th	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	10.8 s	10.89 s
7th	Lacey O'Neal	United States	10.9 s	10.99 s
8th	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.1 s	11.16 s

final

Olympic champion Karin Balzer from Leipzig

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Karin Balzer	Germany	10.5 s	10.54 s	Times due to the strong tail wind of 2.23 m / s not on the best list
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	10.5 s	10.55 s
3	Pam Kilborn	Australia	10.5 s	10.56 s
4th	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.6 s	10.62 s
5	Ikuko Yoda	Japan	10.7 s	10.72 s
6th	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	10.7 s	10.76 s
7th	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	10.8 s	10.86 s
8th	Rosie Bonds	United States	10.8 s	10.88 s

Date: October 19, 1964, from 2:50 p.m.

Wind: + 2.23 m / s

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 19 ° C, humidity approx. 45%

The final brought the closest possible result. The three medal winners were only three hundredths of a second apart. The sequence could not be seen with the naked eye; the target photograph had to be used for this.
The Japanese Ikuko Yoda, who ran with a thick bandage, had the best start. The Polish Teresa Ciepły and the Australian Pamela Kilborn were almost on a par, just a little behind. Irina Press lost more and more ground, while Karin Balzer, who did not get off to a good start, made a powerful advance. Kilborn was now just ahead, but Balzer and Ciepły caught up again towards the goal. In the end Karin Balzer was a wafer-thin front and became Olympic champion ahead of Teresa Ciepły and Pamela Kilborn. All three hurdles were at the same time in 10.5 seconds. Due to the strong tail wind of 0.23 meters per second, the times could not be recognized as a world record .

Karin Balzer ran for the first German Olympic victory in this discipline.
Teresa Ciepły won the first Polish medal.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 300f

Video

• The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 3 | Olympic History , range 13:16 min - 18:46 min, published on October 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on October 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 80m hurdles , accessed October 30, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 94f engl. (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 301
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 30, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{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. 94 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 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. 95 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 30, 2017