1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	47 athletes from 33 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 1, 1972 (preliminary / quarter-finals) September 2, 1972 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Renate Stecher ( GDR )   Raelene Boyle ( AUS )   Silvia Chivás ( CUB )

The women's 100-meter run at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 1 and 2, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 47 athletes took part.

Renate Stecher from the GDR became Olympic champion . She won in a new world record time ahead of Australian Raelene Boyle and Cuban Silvia Chivás .

Annegret Richter , Ingrid Mickler-Becker and Elfgard Schittenhelm started for the Federal Republic of Germany (officially Germany). Mickler-Becker and Schittenhelm made it to the semi-finals and were eliminated there. Richter made it to the final and was fifth there.
In addition to Olympic champion Stecher, Evelin Kaufer and Ellen Strophal competed for the GDR . Both failed in the quarterfinals.
Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

In these years, electronic timekeeping was already used at many events. However, the records were usually still held in tenths of a second. They were a mixture of hand-timed and rounded electronically determined times. Since the times measured by hand timing turned out to be one to two tenths of a second better due to the reaction times of the referees, they also began to keep separate, purely electronically determined record overviews.

The first electronically guided world record in the 100-meter run was Wyomia Tyus ' time of 11.08 s in her Olympic victory in 1968 . According to the rules in force in 1968, this performance was shown hand-stopped with 11.0 s. However, since there was also electronic timekeeping in this race, the performance was later only performed on this basis. When applying the rounding rules, this resulted in a value of 11.1 seconds. Since in the meantime some runners had achieved an official 11.0 seconds, Tyus was no longer listed as a world record holder in the lists shown after tenths of a second.

The following two overviews show the world and Olympic records separately, on the one hand on the basis of manual timekeeping, and on the other hand from the purely electronically determined values.

Official records - rounded to tenths of a second

World record	11.0 s	Chi Cheng ( TPE )	Vienna , Austria	October 18, 1970
		Renate Meißner ( GDR )	Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	2nd October 1970
		Renate Stecher ( GDR )	Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	July 31, 1971
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	3rd June 1972
		Ellen Strophal ( GDR )	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	June 15, 1972
		Eva Glesková ( Czechoslovakia )	Budapest , Hungary	July 1, 1972
Olympic record	11.1 s	Barbara Ferrell ( USA )	Quarterfinals of Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
		Wyomia Tyus ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	15th October 1968

Electronic timing - rounded to hundredths of a second

World record	11.08 s	Wyomia Tyus ( USA )	Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
Olympic record			Mexico City Final , Mexico

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in six heats on September 1st. The five best runners and the following two fastest runners reached the quarter-finals on the same day. The four best runners there made it to the semi-finals on September 2nd, from which the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

September 1st, 11.00 a.m .: Preliminaries
September 1st, 3.00 p.m .: quarter-finals
September 2nd, 3.00 p.m .: semi-finals
September 2nd, 5.30 p.m .: final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: September 1, 1972, from 11 a.m.

Forward 1

The Dutch woman Wilma van Gool, formerly Wilma van den Berg

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.18 s
2	Annegret Irrgang	BR Germany	11.30 s
3	Wilma van Gool	Netherlands	11.43 s
4th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.52 s
5	Mattiline render	United States	11.60 s
6th	Juana Mosquera	Colombia	11.64 s
7th	Marion Hoffman	Australia	11.68 s
8th	Missie Misomali	Malawi	12.78 s

Forward 2

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Esther Shachamorov	Israel	11.45 s
2	Iwanka Walkowa	Bulgaria	11.49 s
3	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.50 s
4th	Evelin Kaufer	GDR	11.59 s
5	Galina Bucharina	Soviet Union	11.69 s
6th	Beatrice Lungu	Zambia	12.42 s
7th	Fatima El-Faquir	Morocco	12.56 s
8th	Russel Carrero	Nicaragua	13.45 s

Forward 3

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Iris Davis	United States	11.34 s
2	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.54 s
3	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.55 s
4th	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.61 s
5	Pam Ryan	Australia	11.73 s
6th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.97 s
7th	Freida Nicholls	Barbados	12.16 s
8th	Irene Fitzner	Argentina	12.51 s

Forward 4

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.31 s
2	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.46 s
3	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.47 s
4th	Hannah Afriyie	Ghana	11.90 s
5	Laura Nappi	Italy	12.02 s
6th	Carolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	12.23 s
7th	Amelita Alanes	Philippines	12.37 s
8th	Meas Kheng	Khmer Republic	12.72 s

Forward 5

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.37 s
2	Carmen Valdés	Cuba	11.53 s
3	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	11.55 s
4th	Lyudmila Sharkova	Soviet Union	11.56 s
5	Ellen Strophal	GDR	11.63 s
6th	Tuula Rautanen	Finland	11.89 s
7th	Emilia Edet	Nigeria	12.06 s
8th	Mireille Joseph	Haiti	13.84 s

Forward 6

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.32 s
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.33 s
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.36 s
4th	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.45 s
5	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	11.77 s
6th	María Luisa Vilca	Peru	11.85 s
7th	Claudette Powell	Bahamas	12.01 s
DNS	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union

Quarter finals

Date: September 1, 1972, from 3 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.22 s
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.30 s
3	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.38 s
4th	Esther Shachamorov	Israel	11.46 s
5	Ellen Strophal	GDR	11.48 s
6th	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.58 s
7th	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.63 s
8th	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	11.87 s

Run 2

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.27 s
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.49 s
3	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.52 s
	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany
5	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.72 s
6th	Pam Ryan	Australia	11.85 s
7th	Hannah Afriyie	Ghana	12.04 s
8th	Laura Nappi	Italy	12.13 s

Run 3

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Irrgang	BR Germany	11.33 s
2	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.43 s
3	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.45 s
4th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.57 s
5	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.64 s
6th	Mattiline render	United States	11.67 s
7th	Marion Hoffman	Australia	11.78 s
8th	Galina Bucharina	Soviet Union	11.81 s

Run 4

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Iris Davis	United States	11.27 s
2	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.42 s
3	Carmen Valdés	Cuba	11.46 s
4th	Lyudmila Sharkova	Soviet Union	11.46 s
5	Wilma van Gool	Netherlands	11.47 s
6th	Iwanka Walkowa	Bulgaria	11.48 s
7th	Evelin Kaufer	GDR	11.55 s
8th	Juana Mosquera	Colombia	11.66 s

Semifinals

Date: September 2, 1972, from 3 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.18 s
2	Iris Davis	United States	11.36 s
3	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.43 s
4th	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.47 s
5	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.49 s
6th	Carmen Valdés	Cuba	11.52 s
7th	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	11.53 s
8th	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.58 s

Run 2

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.32 s
2	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.33 s
3	Annegret Irrgang	BR Germany	11.39 s
4th	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.49 s
5	Esther Shachamorov	Israel	11.49 s
6th	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.54 s
7th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.64 s
8th	Lyudmila Sharkova	Soviet Union	11.67 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.07 s	WRel
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.23 s
3	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.24 s
4th	Iris Davis	United States	11.32 s
5	Annegret Irrgang	BR Germany	11.38 s
6th	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.41 s
7th	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.45 s
8th	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	12.48 s

Date: September 2, 1972, 5:30 p.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

The favorites were v. a. the European champion from 1971 and world record holder Renate Stecher from the GDR and the Australian Olympic champion from 1968 , Raelene Boyle.

Renate Stecher had the best start in the final and was in the lead from the start. She lived up to her role as a favorite and won the gold medal by a clear margin. Raelene Boyle came in second and was a hundredth of a second ahead of Cuban bronze medalist Silvia Chivás. The American Iris Davis came fourth, ahead of the German runner Annegret Richter.

The winning time was a new world record for electronically measured values ​​- Wyomia Tyus was a hundredth of a second slower when she won the Olympic Games in Mexico City . However, the world record rounded to the nearest tenth of a second remained unaffected. A distinction must also be made with regard to the classification of the winning time as an Olympic record . In terms of electronic measurement, Renate Stecher set a new Olympic record. According to the regulation of rounding to tenths of a second, which is still valid for records, the Olympic record was set with 11.1 s.

Renate Stecher achieved the first Olympic victory for a GDR athlete over 100 meters .

Silvia Chivás won the first Cuban medal in this discipline. Chivás was also the first Cuban woman to win a medal in an individual sport.

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 32

Video

• 1972 Olympic 100m Women , published April 19, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed December 5, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed December 5, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 65, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF records, 100 m women , accessed on December 5, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 65, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 5, 2017