1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1976 (preliminary / semi-finals) July 29, 1976 (final)
Medalists Johanna Schaller ( GDR )   Tatiana Anissimowa ( URS )   Natalja Lebedewa ( URS )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 28 and 29, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Johanna Schaller from the GDR. She won ahead of Tatiana Anissimowa and Natalja Lebedewa , both from the Soviet Union.

In addition to the winner, the Olympic champion went for the GDR in 1972 , Annelie Ehrhardt and Gudrun Berend at the start. Ehrhardt was eliminated in the semi-finals, Berend reached the final and finished fourth there.
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	12.59 s	Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 8, 1972
Olympic record			Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany

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	12.3 s	Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 22, 1973
Olympic record	12.6 s		Final of Munich , Federal Republic, Germany	September 8, 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes started four heats on July 28th. The four best runners reached the semi-finals on the same day. From this, the four best runners also qualified for the final, which took place on July 29th.

Time schedule

July 28, 10:00 a.m .: Preliminary
July 28, 2:00 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 29, 3:00 p.m .: Final

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

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Preliminary round

Date: July 28, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.98 s
2	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.09 s
3	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	13.18 s
4th	Nadine Prévost	France	13.70 s
5	Patrice Donnelly	United States	13.71 s
6th	Julie Gomis	Senegal	14.57 s

Forward 2

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.05 s
2	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.37 s
3	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	13.49 s
4th	Deby LaPlante	United States	13.51 s
5	Gaye Dell	Australia	13.68 s
6th	Sue Bradley	Canada	14.07 s

Forward 3

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.94 s
2	Johanna Schaller	GDR	13.02 s
3	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.52 s
4th	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.69 s
5	Rhonda Brady	United States	13.84 s
DNS	Anne Pira	Belgium

Forward 4

Wind: +0.81 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.03 s
2	Esther Roth	Israel	13.06 s
3	Lyubov Kononova	Soviet Union	13.36 s
4th	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.69 s
5	Edith Noeding	Peru	14.14 s
6th	Lucía Vaamonde	Venezuela	19.17 s

Semifinals

Date: July 28, 1976, from 2 p.m.

Run 1

The 1972 Olympic champion Annelie Ehrhardt, GDR

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Johanna Schaller	GDR	12.93 s
2	Gudrun Berend	GDR	12.96 s
3	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.03 s
4th	Esther Roth	Israel	13.04 s
5	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.04 s
6th	Deby LaPlante	United States	13.36 s
7th	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.67 s
8th	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.73 s

Olympic champion Johanna Schaller from the GDR

Run 2

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.08 s
2	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.35 s
3	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.41 s
4th	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.59 s
5	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	13.71 s
6th	Nadine Prévost	France	13.95 s
7th	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	17.32 s
DNS	Lyubov Kononova	Soviet Union

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Johanna Schaller	GDR	12.77 s
2	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.78 s
3	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.80 s
4th	Gudrun Berend	GDR	12.82 s
5	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.96 s
6th	Esther Roth	Israel	13.04 s
7th	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.35 s
8th	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.51 m

Date: July 28, 1976, 3 p.m.

Wind: 0.00 m / s

The competition was dominated by runners from Eastern Europe and the GDR. In addition to them, a runner each from Italy and Israel stood in the final. Annelie Ehrhardt, the Olympic champion of the Munich Games , was no longer in the shape of her best sports years and had to give up in the semifinals. A real successor was not yet apparent in the semi-finals and so the outcome of the final was very open. The decision was expected between the two Gudrun Berend and Johanna Schaller runners and the two Soviet participants Tatjana Anissimowa and Natalja Lebedewa.

The final was actually closer than ever before. The first four athletes crossed the finish line within five hundredths of a second. The placements could hardly be seen with the naked eye. In the end, Johanna Schaller became Olympic champion with a hundredth of a second ahead of Tatiana Anissimowa and Natalja Lebedewa. Gudrun Berend landed fourth, with two tiny hundredths of a second separating bronze. Annelie Ehrhardt's Olympic record of 12.59 s, however, still held.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 244f

Video

• MONTREAL OLYMPIC GAMES HIGHLIGHTS - Second Part - COLOR , area 3:51 min - 4:13 min published on July 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 20, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed December 19, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 38f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 643 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 19 December 2017
2. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 643 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 19 December 2017
3. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 39, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 19, 2017