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

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 31(heats and semifinals) September 1 (final)
Medalists
Irina Press Soviet Union   Carole Quinton Great Britain   Gisela Birkemeyer United Team of Germany

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
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
20 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 80 metres hurdles hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1.

Results

Heats

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 two

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 three

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 four

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 five

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 six

Rank	Name	Nationality	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	Republic of China	12.71

Semifinal

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	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 two

Rank	Name	Nationality	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

Wind = 0.0 m/s.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.93
	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	10.99
	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

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 80 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-14.