1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 80 m hurdles (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 80 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 17, 1968 (preliminary) October 18, 1968 (semifinals / finals) |
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The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 17 and 18, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 33 athletes took part. This discipline was last held at the Olympic Games. From 1972 the 100-meter hurdles for women was introduced.
The Australian Maureen Caird became Olympic champion . She won ahead of her compatriots Pam Kilborn and Chi Cheng from Taiwan.
Inge Schell competed for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - and Karin Balzer for the GDR - officially East Germany . Schell was eliminated in the semi-finals, Balzer qualified for the final and was fifth there.
The Austrian Inge Aigner qualified for the semi-finals, but was eliminated there as the last of her run.
The Swiss Meta Antenen failed in her run.
Runners from Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 10.2 s | Vera Korsakova ( Soviet Union ) | Riga , Soviet Union (now Latvia ) | June 16, 1968 |
Olympic record | 10.6 s | Irina Press ( Soviet Union ) | Rome semifinals , Italy | August 31, 1960 |
Pam Kilborn ( Australia ) | Tokyo semi-finals , Japan | October 19, 1964 | ||
Karin Balzer ( Germany ) | Tokyo semi-finals , Japan | October 19, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of five heats on October 17th. The three best runners and the fastest who followed made it to the semi-finals, which took place on October 18th. Here the four first placed runners qualified for the final on the same day.
Time schedule
October 17, 4:20 p.m .: preliminary runs
October 18, 3 p.m .: semi-finals
October 18, 4:20 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: October 17, 1968, from 4:20 p.m.
Forward 1
Wind: +2.4 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Mamie Rallins | United States | 10.6 s | 10.69 s | |
2 | Vera Korsakova | Soviet Union | 10.6 s | 10.74 s | |
3 | Inge Schell | BR Germany | 10.7 s | 10.77 s | |
4th | Carmen Smith | Jamaica | 11.0 s | 11.09 s | |
5 | Carla Panerai | Italy | 11.0 s | 11.10 s | |
6th | Enriqueta Basilio | Mexico | 11.1 s | 11.20 s | |
7th | Ulla-Britt Wieslander | Sweden | 11.2 s | 11.24 s |
Forward 2
Wind: +0.2 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pam Kilborn | Australia | 10.4 s | 10.41 s | OR |
2 | Valeria Bufanu | Romania | 10.9 s | 10.92 s | |
3 | Maria Kiss | Hungary | 10.9 s | 10.93 s | |
4th | Marlene Elejarde | Cuba | 10.9 s | 10.99 s | |
5 | Marijana Lubej | Yugoslavia | 11.0 s | 11.02 s | |
6th | Snezhana Yurukova | Bulgaria | 11.0 s | 11.07 s | |
7th | Ann Wilson | Great Britain | 11.1 s | 11.19 s |
Forward 3
Wind: +0.8 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Patty Van Wolvelaere | United States | 10.6 s | 10.65 s | |
2 | Teresa Sukniewicz | Poland | 10.7 s | 10.72 s | |
3 | Tatiana Talysheva | Soviet Union | 10.8 s | 10.81 s | |
4th | Carlota Ulloa | Chile | 11.1 s | 11.13 s | |
5 | Jenny Meldrum | Canada | 11.1 s | 11.17 s | |
DNF | Pat Pryce | Great Britain |
Forward 4
Wind: +2.0 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Maureen Caird | Australia | 10.4 s | 10.48 s | ORe |
2 | Chi Cheng | Taiwan | 10.5 s | 10.53 s | |
3 | Danuta Straszyńska | Poland | 10.7 s | 10.72 s | |
4th | Inge Aigner | Austria | 10.8 s | 10.83 s | |
5 | Meta antennas | Switzerland | 10.9 s | 10.95 s | |
6th | Pat Jones | Great Britain | 11.0 s | 11.03 s | |
7th | Roswitha Emonts guest | Belgium | 11.0 s | 11.03 s |
Forward 5
Wind: +1.5 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Karin Balzer | GDR | 10.7 s | 10.72 s | |
2 | Elżbieta Żebrowska | Poland | 10.8 s | 10.83 s | |
3 | Judy Dyer | United States | 10.9 s | 10.94 s | |
4th | Lyudmila Yevleva | Soviet Union | 10.9 s | 10.97 s | |
5 | Yeh Chu-mei | Taiwan | 11.7 s | 11.77 s | |
6th | Cecilia Sosa | El Salvador | 12.8 s | 12.90 s |
Semifinals
Date: October 18, 1968, from 3 p.m.
Run 1
Wind: −2.0 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Maureen Caird | Australia | 10.5 s | 10.59 s | |
2 | Patty Van Wolvelaere | United States | 10.6 s | 10.72 s | |
3 | Tatiana Talysheva | Soviet Union | 10.7 s | 10.80 s | |
4th | Karin Balzer | GDR | 10.8 s | 10.83 s | |
5 | Vera Korsakova | Soviet Union | 10.8 s | 10.86 s | |
6th | Teresa Sukniewicz | Poland | 10.9 s | 11.00 s | |
7th | Valeria Bufanu | Romania | 11.0 s | 11.08 s | |
8th | Inge Aigner | Austria | 11.1 s | 11.12 s |
Run 2
Wind: 0.0 m / s
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Pam Kilborn | Australia | 10.4 s | 10.44 s | ORe |
2 | Chi Cheng | Taiwan | 10.5 s | 10.56 s | |
3 | Danuta Straszyńska | Poland | 10.5 s | 10.60 s | |
4th | Elżbieta Żebrowska | Poland | 10.6 s | 10.70 s | |
5 | Mamie Rallins | United States | 10.6 s | 10.70 s | |
6th | Judy Dyer | United States | 10.8 s | 10.84 s | |
7th | Inge Schell | BR Germany | 10.8 s | 10.84 s | |
8th | Maria Kiss | Hungary | 11.2 s | 11.22 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Maureen Caird | Australia | 10.3 s | 10.39 s | OR |
2 | Pam Kilborn | Australia | 10.4 s | 10.46 s | |
3 | Chi Cheng | Taiwan | 10.4 s | 10.51 s | |
4th | Patty Van Wolvelaere | United States | 10.5 s | 10.60 s | |
5 | Karin Balzer | GDR | 10.6 s | 10.61 s | |
6th | Danuta Straszyńska | Poland | 10.6 s | 10.66 s | |
7th | Elżbieta Żebrowska | Poland | 10.6 s | 10.66 s | |
8th | Tatiana Talysheva | Soviet Union | 10.7 s | 10.72 s |
Date: October 18, 1968, 4:20 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s
In addition to world record holder Vera Korsakowa, the Olympic champion from 1964 , Karin Balzer, was also the favorite, as was the Australian Pam Kilborn, who had not lost a race since her bronze medal in 1964. However, Korsakowa was surprisingly eliminated in the semifinals.
The two favorites got off to a bad start in the final. Balzer could no longer compensate for the handicap and was only fifth. Kilborn, on the other hand, was able to improve and came within a tenth of a second to her young team-mate Maureen Caird, who, however, won the race. Chi Cheng from Taiwan won the bronze medal behind the two Australians.
With her victory, 17-year-old Maureen Caird became the youngest athletics Olympic champion in an individual discipline.
Chi Cheng was the first Taiwanese woman to win an Olympic medal.
Maureen Caird and Pam Kilborn won the sixth and seventh Australian medals in the women's 80-meter Olympic hurdles .
With three gold, one silver and three bronze medals, Australia was the most successful nation in this discipline - and it remained so, because this competition was held in Mexico City for the last time. From 1972 on there was the 100-meter hurdles instead .
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 385f
Video
- 80m Hurdles 1968 Olympic Games Mexico Karin Balzer , published January 6, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed November 10, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 80m hurdles , accessed November 10, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 73, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 535, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 386
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 10f, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ a b c Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 535, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 10, 2017