80 metres hurdles

80 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling ran by women until 1972 in international competitions.

Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.^[1]

Masters athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles is still in use in Masters athletics in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.^[2]

Youth athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles is also in use in the 11- to 12-year-old division, previously called the "Midget" division.^[3]

History

First official time: 13.0 seconds, Ludmila Sychrová, Czechoslovakia, July 6, 1926
First official world record: 12.8 seconds, Eva von Bredow, Germany, June 14, 1927
First runner under 12 seconds: 11.8 seconds, Babe Didrikson, USA, August 3, 1932
First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds, Shirley Strickland, AUS, July 24, 1952
Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, Vera Korsakova, USSR, June 16, 1968
Maureen Caird's winning time of 10.39A at the 1968 Olympics is intrinsically better than the hand timed official record, but at the time, IAAF did not have any rules in place to recognize automatic times. When those rules were put in place in 1977, which recognized records set in the 1968 Olympics in many other events, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade.

Olympic Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1932 Los Angeles	Babe Didrikson (USA)	Evelyne Hall (USA)	Marjorie Clark (RSA)
1936 Berlin	Ondina Valla (ITA)	Anni Steuer (GER)	Elizabeth Taylor (CAN)
1948 London	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	Maureen Gardner (GBR)	Shirley Strickland (AUS)
1952 Helsinki	Shirley Strickland (AUS)	Maria Golubnichaya (URS)	Maria Sander (GER)
1956 Melbourne	Shirley Strickland (AUS)	Gisela Köhler (EUA)	Norma Thrower (AUS)
1960 Rome	Irina Press (URS)	Carole Quinton (GBR)	Gisela Birkemeyer (EUA)
1964 Tokyo	Karin Balzer (EUA)	Teresa Ciepły (POL)	Pam Kilborn (AUS)
1968 Mexico City	Maureen Caird (AUS)	Pam Kilborn (AUS)	Chi Cheng (ROC)