Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's 220 yards

Women's 220 yards
at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Women's 220 yards ; at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Venue	Independence Park, Kingston
Dates	August 8 and 11, 1966
Medalists
	← 1962 Perth (AUS) Edinburgh 1970 →

The women's 220 yards event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 11 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested: in 1970 it was replaced by the 200 metres.

Medalists

Medallists
Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dianne Burge Australia	Jenny Lamy Australia	Irene Piotrowski Canada

The first 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s, Heat 4: +1.9 m/s, Heat 5: +0.6 m/s

Heats results
Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Marjorie Turner	Canada	24.6	Q
2	1	Una Morris	Jamaica	24.7	Q
3	1	Gloria Dourass	Wales	25.3	Q
4	1	Sigrid Sandiford	Trinidad and Tobago	25.5
5	1	Maria Jinadu	Nigeria	25.5
1	2	Jenny Lamy	Australia	24.2	Q
2	2	Maureen Tranter	England	24.2	Q
3	2	Janet Maddin	Canada	24.9	Q
4	2	Jocelyn Haynes	Trinidad and Tobago	25.3
5	2	Ana Ramacake	Fiji	25.3
6	2	Esther Maganga	Tanzania	26.3
7	2	Teresa Johnson	Sierra Leone	26.5
1	3	Judy Pollock	Australia	24.1	Q
2	3	Janet Simpson	England	24.2	Q
3	3	Elizabeth Gill	Wales	24.6	Q
4	3	Lorna McGarvey	Northern Ireland	24.9	q
5	3	Olajumoke Bodunrin	Nigeria	25.5
6	3	Barbara Lyall	Scotland	25.7
7	3	Thora Best	Trinidad and Tobago	25.9
8	3	Lydia Stephens	Kenya	26.2
1	4	Joyce Bennett	Australia	24.2	Q
2	4	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	24.6	Q
3	4	Valerie Parker	Canada	24.8	Q
4	4	Elizabeth Parsons	Wales	25.0
5	4	Oyeronke Akindele	Nigeria	25.1
6	4	Octavia Straker	Trinidad and Tobago	25.2
1	5	Dianne Burge	Australia	24.5	Q
2	5	Daphne Slater	England	24.8	Q
3	5	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	25.0	Q
4	5	Thelwyn Appleby	Wales	25.5
5	5	Millicent Jackson	Sierra Leone	27.6
	5	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	DNS
	5	Regina Okafor	Nigeria	DNS

The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Heat 1: +2.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s

Semifinals results
Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Dianne Burge	Australia	24.0	Q
2	1	Una Morris	Jamaica	24.1	Q
3	1	Judy Pollock	Australia	24.2	Q
4	1	Janet Simpson	England	24.2	Q
5	1	Marjorie Turner	Canada	24.3
6	1	Janet Maddin	Canada	24.5
7	1	Daphne Slater	England	24.7
8	1	Gloria Dourass	Wales	25.4
1	2	Jenny Lamy	Australia	24.1	Q
2	2	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	24.1	Q
3	2	Joyce Bennett	Australia	24.1	Q
4	2	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	24.4	Q
5	2	Maureen Tranter	England	24.5
6	2	Elizabeth Gill	Wales	24.8
7	2	Valerie Parker	Canada	25.0
8	2	Lorna McGarvey	Northern Ireland	25.5

+1.0 m/s

Final results
Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Dianne Burge	Australia	23.73
	Jenny Lamy	Australia	23.86
	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	23.92
4	Judy Pollock	Australia	24.14
5	Joyce Bennett	Australia	24.16
6	Una Morris	Jamaica	24.3
7	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	24.4
8	Janet Simpson	England	24.6

^ "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Heats & Semifinals results". The Age. 10 August 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
^ "Final results". The Guardian. 13 August 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 22 July 2020.