1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 4, 1972 (preliminary) September 7, 1972 (semi-finals) September 8, 1972 (final)
Medalists Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )   Valeria Bufanu ( ROM )   Karin Balzer ( GDR )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 4th, 7th and 8th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part. The 100-meter hurdles replaced the 80-meter hurdles that were held from 1932 to 1968 .

Annelie Ehrhardt from the GDR became the first Olympic champion over the new distance . She won in a world record time ahead of the Romanian Valeria Bufanu and the East German runner Karin Balzer .

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Margit Bach and Heidi Schüller started . Both were eliminated in the semi-finals.
In addition to the medalists, Annerose Krumpholz also started for the GDR. She also reached the final and finished seventh there.
The Swiss Meta Antenen reached the semi-finals, but could not finish the race there.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	12.5 s	Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 15, 1972
Olympic record	There was still no Olympic record for the 100 meter hurdles , as this competition was held in Munich for the first time.

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in four heats on September 4th. The four best runners reached the semifinals on September 7th. From this, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on September 8th.

Time schedule

September 4th, 10:00 a.m .: Preliminary
September 7th, 4:15 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 8th, 4:00 p.m .: Final

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Preliminary round

Date: September 4, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	12.70 s	first OR
2	Pam Ryan	Australia	12.93 s
3	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.16 s
4th	Esther Shachamorov	Israel	13.17 s
5	Judy Vernon	Great Britain	13.37 s
6th	Lucila Salao	Philippines	15.15 s
DNS	Edith Noeding	Peru

Forward 2

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	12.94 s
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.03 s
3	Margit Bach	BR Germany	13.46 s
4th	Lacey O'Neal	United States	13.78 s
5	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	13.81 s
6th	Penny Gillies	Australia	13.82 s

Forward 3

Annerose Krumpholz from the GDR - in the front of the picture - reached seventh place

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.29 s
2	Annerose Krumpholz	GDR	13.31 s
2	Mamie Rallins	United States	13.51 s
4th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	13.61 s
5	Maureen Caird	Australia	13.63 s
6th	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	15.89 s
DNS	Mary Peters	Great Britain

Forward 4

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	13.10 s
2	Patty Johnson	United States	13.28 s
3	Jacqueline André	France	13.33 s
4th	Heidi Schüller	BR Germany	13.50 s
5	Ann Wilson	Great Britain	13.53 s
6th	Gunhild Olsson	Sweden	14.37 s
7th	Emilia Edet	Nigeria	14.67 s

Semifinals

Date: September 7, 1972, from 4.15 p.m.

Run 1

GDR runner Karin Balzer won another bronze medal on the new route after her Olympic victory in the 80 meter hurdles in 1964

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	12.84 s
2	Pam Ryan	Australia	12.95 s
3	Karin Balzer	GDR	12.97 s
4th	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.10 s
5	Patty Johnson	United States	13.26 s
6th	Margit Bach	BR Germany	13.31 s
7th	Mamie Rallins	United States	13.76 s
DNF	Meta antennas	Switzerland

Run 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	12.73 s
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	12.91 s
3	Annerose Krumpholz	GDR	13.24 s
4th	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.24 s
5	Jacqueline André	France	13.30 s
6th	Heidi Schüller	BR Germany	13.33 s
7th	Lacey O'Neal	United States	13.89 s
DNS	Esther Shachamorov	Israel

The Israeli Esther Shachamorov , who qualified for the semifinals, did not appear because of the terrorist attack on September 5 , in which eleven of her teammates, including her coach Amitzur Schapira , were murdered.

final

Olympic champion Annelie Ehrhardt, GDR

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	12.59 s	WRel / OR
2	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	12.84 s
3	Karin Balzer	GDR	12.90 s
4th	Pam Ryan	Australia	12.98 s
5	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.17 s
6th	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.18 s
7th	Annerose Krumpholz	GDR	13.27 s
8th	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.44 s

Date: September 8, 1972, 4 p.m.

Wind: −0.6 m / s

Clearly favored was the GDR runner Annelie Ehrhardt, who always won her national duels with the Olympic champion over 80 meter hurdles , Karin Balzer, in the Olympic year and set world standards with 12.5 seconds on this new route. There were numerous contenders for the other medals. These included Karin Balzer, European champion in 1971 , and the Australian Pam Ryan - these two runners reached an Olympic final for the third time in a row. Maureen Caird, winner of the 80 meter hurdles in 1968 , failed in the preliminary run. The Taiwanese Chi Cheng did not appear in Munich due to an injury.

Ehrhardt dominated the final as she wanted from the start. Annelie Ehrhardt, born Annelie Jahns, was born as Annelie Jahns, a safe Olympic champion, two and a half meters ahead of the Romanian Valeria Bufanu. The bronze medal was won by Karin Balzer, who ended her career after this success, Pam Ryan was fourth.

With her 12.59 seconds, Annelie Ehrhardt set a new Olympic record in the final . The separate counting of achievements that came about on the sole basis of electronic timekeeping only began at that time and there was a certain confusion regarding the question of how an achievement was classified as a world record . Officially, this world record was 12.5 s, because records were officially rounded to tenths of a second and hand-stopped times were still permitted as recordable at that time. However, Ehrhardt's performance here was listed as a world record in the lists from 1977 onwards, which only allowed times to be measured purely electronically, which lasted until 1978. Before that, on July 22, 1973, it was still hand-stopped for 12.3 seconds in Dresden .

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 , pp. 54f

Web links

• SportsReference 100m hurdles , accessed December 7, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 68f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 643 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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 7, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 68, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
4. ↑ 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. 69, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 7, 2017
6. ↑ Athletics records on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on December 7, 2017
7. ↑ IAAF world records, 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on December 7, 2017