1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	39 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1976 (heats / quarter-finals) July 25, 1976 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Annegret Richter ( FRG )   Renate Stecher ( GDR )   Inge Helten ( FRG )

The women's 100-meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 24 and 25, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Annegret Richter from the Federal Republic of Germany, who set a new world record in the semifinals. She won ahead of Renate Stecher from the GDR and Inge Helten from the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to the two medal winners, Elvira Possekel also took part for the Federal Republic of Germany. She was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Martina Blos and Marlies Oelsner , later better known under their name Marlies Göhr
, also started for the GDR . Only dropped out in the preliminary round, Oelsner reached the final and was eighth. Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	11.04 s	Inge Helten ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Fürth , Federal Republic of Germany	June 13, 1976
Olympic record	11.07 s	Renate Stecher ( GDR )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	2nd September 1972

Note:
Even hand-timed times were still part of the official best and record lists at that time, which had an impact on the short distances in particular and led to different records. The official lists consisted of a mixture in which hand-stopped and electronically taken times rounded to tenths were entered together. However, since the hand-timed times were about one to two tenths of a second better than the electronically determined values ​​due to the delay in reaction of the timekeepers, there were soon separate lists. From 1977 on, only electronic times were officially kept.
To complete this, here is an overview of the records rounded to tenths of a second, including hand-timed times:

World record	10.8 s	Renate Stecher ( GDR )	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	20th July 1973
Olympic record	11.0 s	Wyomia Tyus ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	15th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in six heats on July 24th. The five best runners and the following two fastest made it to the quarter-finals on the same day. From this, the four best runners reached the semi-finals on July 25th. In the preliminary rounds, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 24th, 11.00 a.m .: Preliminaries
July 24th, 4.10 p.m .: quarter-finals
July 25th, 3.45 p.m .: semi-finals
July 25th, 5.50 p.m .: final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

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

Preliminary round

Date: July 24, 1976, from 11 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.37 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.26 s
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.30 s
3	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.35 s
4th	Marjorie Bailey	Canada	11.46 s
5	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	11.47 s
6th	Carol Cummings	Jamaica	11.69 s
7th	Lorna Forde	Barbados	12.02 s

Forward 2

Wind: +0.23 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Brenda Morehead	United States	11.35 s
2	Patty Loverock	Canada	11.47 s
3	Leleith Hodges	Jamaica	11.54 s
4th	Esmeralda de Jesus Freitas	Brazil	11.80 s
5	Debbie Jones	Bermuda	11.84 s
6th	Rita Hendricks	American Virgin Islands	13.51 s
DNS	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain

Forward 3

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.39 s
2	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.40 s
3	Susan Jowett	New Zealand	11.70 s
4th	Isabel Taylor	Cuba	11.73 s
5	Margaret Howe	Canada	11.83 s
6th	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	12.26 s

Forward 4

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.28 s
2	Vera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.37 s
3	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.43 s
4th	Elvira Possekel	BR Germany	11.48 s
5	Denise Robertson	Australia	11.50 s
6th	Martina Blos	GDR	11.70 s
7th	Carolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	11.98 s

Forward 5

Wind: +0.37 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marlies Oelsner	GDR	11.36 s
2	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.40 s
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.47 s
4th	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	11.52 s
5	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	11.63 s
6th	Divina Estrella	Dominican Republic	12.12 s

Forward 6

Wind: +0.54 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.19 s
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.21 s
3	Evelyn Ashford	United States	11.25 s
4th	Debbie Wells	Australia	11.47 s
5	Carmen Valdés	Cuba	11.47 s
6th	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	11.62 s
7th	Antoinette Gauthier	Haiti	13.11 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 24, 1976, from 4:10 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +1.06 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.05 s	ORe / ORel
2	Marlies Oelsner	GDR	11.27 s
3	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.34 s
4th	Patty Loverock	Canada	11.50 s
5	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	11.63 s
6th	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.64 s
7th	Esmeralda de Jesus Freitas	Brazil	11.77 s
DNS	Debbie Jones	Bermuda

Run 2

Wind: +0.21 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.20 s
2	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.36 s
3	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.36 s
4th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.48 s
5	Carmen Valdés	Cuba	11.52 s
6th	Denise Robertson	Australia	11.56 s
7th	Carol Cummings	Jamaica	11.75 s
8th	Susan Jowett	New Zealand	11.81 s

Run 3

Wind: −0.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Evelyn Ashford	United States	11.28 s
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.29 s
3	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.37 s
4th	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.42 s
5	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	11.51 s
6th	Elvira Possekel	BR Germany	11.58 s
7th	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	11.71 s
6th	Margaret Howe	Canada	11.96 s

Marlies Oelsner, GDR, came in eighth

Renate Stecher, GDR, winner of the silver medal

Run 4

Wind: −0.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.22 s
2	Brenda Morehead	United States	11.30 s
3	Marjorie Bailey	Canada	11.44 s
4th	Vera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.47 s
5	Debbie Wells	Australia	11.51 s
6th	Leleith Hodges	Jamaica	11.58 s
7th	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	11.72 s
8th	Isabel Taylor	Cuba	11.92 s

Semifinals

Date: July 25, 1976, from 3:45 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.57 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.01 s	WRel / OR
2	Evelyn Ashford	United States	11.21 s
3	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.26 s
4th	Marlies Oelsner	GDR	11.29 s
5	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.32 s
6th	Vera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.39 s
7th	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.43 s
8th	Marjorie Bailey	Canada	11.47 s

Run 2

Wind: +1.07 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.10 s
2	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.18 s
3	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.22 s
4th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.28 s
5	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.34 s
6th	Brenda Morehead	United States	11.38 s
7th	Patty Loverock	Canada	11.40 s
8th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.41 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.08 s
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.13 s
3	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.17 s
4th	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.23 s
5	Evelyn Ashford	United States	11.24 s
6th	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.31 s
7th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.32 s
8th	Marlies Oelsner	GDR	11.34 s

Date: July 25, 1976, 5:50 p.m.

Wind: 0.00 m / s

Four Germans had qualified for the final, two sprinters from the GDR and two from the Federal Republic of Germany. The final field was completed by two Americans, one Australian and one from Great Britain.

Annegret Richter, who had been in Munich four years earlier under the name Annegret Irrgang Olympiafünfte, had set a new world record in the semifinals with 11.01 seconds in the purely electronically measured times and improved the old mark of her teammate Inge Helten by three hundredths of a second. Together with the 1972 Olympic champion , Renate Stecher from the GDR, Annegret Richter was the favorite for this race. The Australian Raelene Boyle, silver medalist from Munich, and Inge Helten were also rated highly. A close race was expected between these four medal contenders.

The favorites all got off to a good start and the gaps were extremely close. After 50 meters, Annegret Richter took the lead. She ran her race and brought the small lead she had developed to the finish. She won in 11.08 s. At the start of the evening, the conditions for the female sprinters were no longer as good as in the afternoon for the semi-finals, so that a further improvement in the world record was hardly possible. As expected, the fight for the other medals was also close. Renate Stecher won silver in 11.13 seconds ahead of Inge Helten, another four hundredths of a second behind. Six hundredths of a second behind Helten, Raelene Boyle crossed the finish line in fourth.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 238f

Video

• The eyewitness, brief excerpts from the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal on progress-film.de, range 6:21 min - 6:31 min, accessed on December 18, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed December 18, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 30f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 640 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 18 December 2017
2. ↑ IAAF records. 100m women , accessed December 18, 2017
3. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 31, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 18, 2017