Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 21 (round one and quarterfinals) July 22 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	56
Medalists
Marjorie Jackson Australia   Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger South Africa   Shirley Strickland Australia

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 100 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 21 and July 22. The final was won by Australian Marjorie Jackson, who equalled the world record set in 1936 by Helen Stephens.

Results

First round

The first round was held on July 21. The first two runners of each heat qualified for the second round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Winsome Cripps	Australia	12.0
2	Tzvetana Berkovska	Bulgaria	12.2
3	Lilian Heinz	Argentina	12.7
4	Ulla Pokki	Finland	12.7
5	Nilima Ghose	India	13.6

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Mae Faggs	United States	12.1
2	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.6
3	Lászlóné Bartha	Hungary	12.7
4	Elzbieta Bocian	Poland	12.9

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	12.0
2	Irina Turova	Soviet Union	12.0
3	Vittoria Cesarini	Italy	12.3
4	Pui Wah Tang	Singapore	13.8

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Helga Klein	Germany	12.1
2	Heather Armitage	Great Britain	12.3
3	Lilian Buglia	Argentina	12.3
4	Alexandrina Sicoe	Romania	12.8
5	Leena Sipilä	Finland	13.4

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Maria Sander	Germany	12.2
2	Anna-Lisa Augustsson	Sweden	12.4
3	Rosella Thorne	Canada	12.5
4	Gyuláné Rákhely	Hungary	12.6
5	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	12.6

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	12.2
2	Janet Morreau	United States	12.5
3	Neeltje Büch	Netherlands	12.6
4	Jorun Askersrud Tangen	Norway	13.0
5	Sonja Prétôt	Switzerland	14.7

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Catherine Hardy	United States	11.9
2	June Foulds	Great Britain	12.1
3	Alberte De Campou	France	12.2
4	Helena Cardoso de Menezes	Brazil	12.5
5	Ana Fontan	Argentina	12.9

Heat 8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.6
2	Yvette Monginou	France	12.3
3	Luella Law	Canada	12.4
4	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	12.5

Heat 9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Australia	12.0
2	Vera Kalashnikova	Soviet Union	12.2
3	Quita Shivas	Great Britain	12.5
4	Ema Konrad	Romania	13.0
5	Mary D'Souza	India	13.1

Heat 10

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Daphne Hasenjager	South Africa	11.9
2	Eleanor McKenzie	Canada	12.2
3	Nell Sjöström	Sweden	12.4
4	Ibolya Tilkovszki	Hungary	12.4
5	Phyllis Jones	Bermuda	13.3

Heat 11

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Francina Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9
2	Marga Petersen	Germany	12.0
3	Denise Laborie	France	12.6
4	Graviola Ewing	Guatemala	13.0

Heat 12

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Edna Maskell	South Africa	11.9
2	Nadezhda Khnykina	Soviet Union	12.0
3	Hyacinth Walters	Jamaica	12.4
4	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	12.7
5	Agneta Hanertz	Sweden	12.8

Second round

The first three runners from each heat qualified to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.6
2	Marga Petersen	Germany	12.0
3	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	12.0
4	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	12.2
5	Heather Armitage	Great Britain	12.3
6	Tzvetana Berkovska	Bulgaria	12.3

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Maria Sander	Germany	12.0
2	Francina Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0
3	Mae Faggs	United States	12.0
4	Irina Turova	Soviet Union	12.1
5	Eleanor McKenzie	Canada	12.1
6	Yvette Monginou	France	12.4

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Daphne Hasenjager	South Africa	12.0
2	Vera Kalashnikova	Soviet Union	12.1
3	Winsome Cripps	Australia	12.1
4	June Foulds	Great Britain	12.3
5	Janet Morreau	United States	12.5
6	Anna-Lisa Augustsson	Sweden	12.5

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Nadezhda Khnykina	Soviet Union	12.0
2	Helga Klein	Germany	12.0
3	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Australia	12.0
4	Catherine Hardy	United States	12.1
5	Edna Maskell	South Africa	12.2
6	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.9

Semifinals

The first three runners from each heat qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.5	=WR
2	Winsome Cripps	Australia	12.0
3	Mae Faggs	United States	12.1
4	Nadezhda Khnykina	Soviet Union	12.1
5	Marga Petersen	Germany	12.1

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Daphne Hasenjager	South Africa	11.9
2	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Australia	11.9
3	Maria Sander	Germany	12.0
4	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	12.1
5	Vera Kalashnikova	Soviet Union	12.1
6	Helga Klein	Germany	12.3

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.5	=WR
	Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger	Netherlands	11.8
	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.9
4	Winsome Cripps	Australia	11.9
5	Maria Sander	Germany	12.0
6	Mae Faggs	United States	12.1

Key: =WR = Equalled World record

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 metres, from Sports Reference