Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	July 28–29
Competitors	21 from 15 nations
Winning time	12.77
Medalists
Johanna Schaller-Klier  East Germany Tatyana Anisimova  Soviet Union Natalya Lebedeva  Soviet Union

The Women's 100 metres hurdles competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on July 28–29.

Competition format

The Women's 100m hurdles competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The four fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the semifinals. The top four athletes from each semifinals race advanced to the final.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	12.59	Munich, West Germany	8 September 1972
Olympic record

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.98	Q
2	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.09	Q
3	Sharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	13.18	Q
4	Nadine Prévost	France	13.70	Q
5	Patrice Donnelly	United States	13.71
6	Julie Gomis	Senegal	14.57

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.05	Q
2	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.37	Q
3	Annelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.49	Q
4	Deby LaPlante	United States	13.51	Q
5	Gaye Dell	Australia	13.68
6	Sue Bradley-Kameli	Canada	14.07

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Natalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.94	Q
2	Johanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	13.02	Q
3	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.52	Q
4	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.69	Q
5	Rhonda Brady	United States	13.84

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	13.03	Q
2	Esther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.06	Q
3	Lyubov Kononova	Soviet Union	13.36	Q
4	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.60	Q
5	Edith Noeding	Peru	14.14
6	Lucía Vaamonde	Venezuela	19.17

Semifinals

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Johanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	12.93	Q
2	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.96	Q
3	Natalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.03	Q
4	Esther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.04	Q
5	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.04
6	Deby LaPlante	United States	13.36
7	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.67
8	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.73

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.08	Q
2	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.35	Q
3	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.41	Q
4	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.59	Q
5	Annelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.71
6	Nadine Prévost	France	13.95
7	Sharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	17.32

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Johanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	12.77
	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.78
	Natalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.80
4	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.82
5	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.96
6	Esther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.04
7	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.35
8	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.51

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 20, 2012.