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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

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Women's 80 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesAugust 31(heats and semifinals)
September 1 (final)
Competitors36 from 21 nations
Winning time10.9
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Irina Press
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carole Quinton
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gisela Birkemeyer
 United Team of Germany
← 1956
1964 →

The women's 80 metres hurdles hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1.[1]

Results

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Heats

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The top two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.91 OR
2 Carole Quinton  Great Britain 11.07
3 Draga Stamejčič  Yugoslavia 11.47
4 Ulla-Britt Wieslander  Sweden 11.60
5 Irene Robertson  United States 11.69

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Mary Bignal-Rand  Great Britain 11.40
2 Norma Thrower  Australia 11.54
3 Snezhana Kerkova  Bulgaria 11.73
4 Wanda dos Santos  Brazil 11.84
5 Bertha Díaz  Cuba 11.84

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Rimma Koshelyova  Soviet Union 11.26
2 Denise Laborie-Guénard  France 11.37
3 Alena Stolzová  Czechoslovakia 11.59
4 Jo Ann Terry-Grissom  United States 11.59

Heat 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Gisela Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany 11.31
2 Barbara Sosgórnik  Poland 11.56
3 Pat Nutting  Great Britain 11.65
4 Sally McCallum  Canada 11.90
5 Friedl Murauer  Austria 12.08

Heat 5

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany 11.40
2 Teresa Ciepły  Poland 11.46
3 Simone Brièrre  France 11.75
4 Gloria Cooke-Wigney  Australia 11.89

Heat 6

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Zenta Gastl-Kopp  United Team of Germany 11.10
2 Galina Bystrova  Soviet Union 11.26
3 Letizia Bertoni  Italy 11.54
4 Shirley Crowder  United States 12.43
5 Chi Cheng  Formosa 12.71

Semifinal

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The top three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Galina Bystrova  Soviet Union 11.16
2 Mary Bignal-Rand  Great Britain 11.16
3 Rimma Koshelyova  Soviet Union 11.22
4 Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany 11.27
5 Norma Thrower  Australia 11.44
6 Barbara Sosgórnik  Poland 11.46

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.77 OR
2 Gisela Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany 11.01
3 Carole Quinton  Great Britain 11.07
4 Zenta Gastl-Kopp  United Team of Germany 11.09
5 Teresa Ciepły  Poland 11.40
6 Denise Laborie-Guénard  France 11.51

Final

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Wind = 0.0 m/s.

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.93
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carole Quinton  Great Britain 10.99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gisela Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany 11.13
4 Mary Bignal-Rand  Great Britain 11.22
5 Galina Bystrova  Soviet Union 11.26
6 Rimma Koshelyova  Soviet Union 11.28

Key: OR = Olympic record

80 m final. Birkemeyer and Press are in the center, Quinton is on the left

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 80 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2017.