1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1980 (preliminary round) July 28, 1980 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Vera Komissowa ( URS )   Johanna Klier ( GDR )   Lucyna Langer ( POL )

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 27 and 28, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Vera Komissowa from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of Johanna Klier from the GDR and Lucyna Langer from Poland .

In addition to the medal winner, Kerstin Claus and Bettine Gärtz also competed for the GDR . Both reached the final. Claus was fourth, Gärtz seventh.
Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	12.36 s	Grażyna Rabsztyn ( Poland )	Warsaw , Poland	June 13, 1980
Olympic record	12.59 s	Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )	Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	September 8, 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in three heats on July 27th. The four best runners and the four fastest runners reached the semi-finals on July 28th. Here, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 27, 5:25 p.m .: Preliminaries
July 28, 5 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 28, 7:15 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

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

Preliminary round

Photo from the GDR championships 1983: Bettine Gärtz (r.) - here in seventh place - and Kerstin Claus (middle) - in fourth place

Date: July 27, 1980, from 5:25 p.m.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.22 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Vera Komissova	Soviet Union	12.67 s
2	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.75 s
3	Kerstin Claus	GDR	12.77 s
4th	Laurence Le Beau	France	13.18 s
5	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.23 s
6th	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	13.24 s
7th	Marisa Peralta	Dominican Republic	14.18 s

Forward 2

Wind: +0.67 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Irina Litovchenko	Soviet Union	12.97 s
2	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	13.06 s
3	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	13.21 s
4th	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	13.39 s
5	Daniela Walkowa	Bulgaria	13.66 s
6th	Penny Gillies	Australia	13.68 s
DNS	Yvonne from Kauffungen	Switzerland
Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador

Forward 3

Wind: +0.72 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.72 s
2	Johanna Klier	GDR	13.03 s
3	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.31 s
4th	Helena Pihl	Sweden	13.46 s
5	Laurence Elloy	France	13.60 s
6th	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.86 s
7th	Estella Meheux	Sierra Leone	15.61 s

Semifinals

Date: July 28, 1980, from 5 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: −0.02 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Vera Komissova	Soviet Union	12.78 s
2	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.91 s
3	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	13.04 s
4th	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	13.09 s
5	Laurence Elloy	France	13.33 s
6th	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	13.39 s
7th	Laurence Le Beau	France	13.54 s
8th	Helena Pihl	Sweden	13.68 s

Run 2

Wind: +1.21 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.64 s
2	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.77 s
3	Irina Litovchenko	Soviet Union	12.84 s
4th	Kerstin Claus	GDR	12.99 s
5	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	13.12 s
6th	Daniela Walkowa	Bulgaria	13.79 s
DNF	Xénia Siska	Hungary
DNS	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union

Silver medalist Johanna Klier, GDR

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Vera Komissova	Soviet Union	12.56 s	OR
2	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.63 s
3	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.65 s
4th	Kerstin Claus	GDR	12.66 s
5	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.74 s
6th	Irina Litovchenko	Soviet Union	12.84 s
7th	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	12.93 s
8th	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	13.08 s

Date: July 28, 1980, 7:15 p.m.

Wind: +0.91 m / s

Since the favorites for the medals came from Poland, the Soviet Union and the GDR, the Olympic boycott did not have too much of an impact on the competition. Candidates for the Olympic victory and top placings were above all the Polish world record holder Grażyna Rabsztyn, the 1976 Olympic champion Johanna Klier - then under her name Johanna Schaller, 1978 also European champion, vice European champion Tatjana Anissimowa and Wera Komissowa, both from the USSR, Kerstin Claus, GDR , as well as the Polish Lucyna Langer.

Rabsztyn got off to a poor start in the final and didn't really get into this race until the finish. She eventually finished fifth. Klier worked out an easy tour, but it was very tight. Komissowa passed her at the fifth hurdle. The Soviet runner had a very good day. Wera Komissowa erlief the gold medal and improved the possibility Annelie Ehrhardt's Olympic record from 1972 . In the ranks two to four, the gaps were extremely tight. Johanna Klier saved silver with a lead of two hundredths of a second, Lucyna Langer, who was later still very successful under the name Lucyna Kałek, won the bronze medal only one hundredth of a second ahead of Kerstin Claus - later Kerstin Knabe.

Lucyna Langer won the first Polish medal in the women's 100 meter hurdles .

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m hurdles ,
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 84f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018

Video

• Moscow Olympic Games Women's 100 Hurdles , published May 1, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 643 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3 2018
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 85, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 1, 2018