Jump to content

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women's 80 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates18–19 October
Competitors31 from 20 nations
Winning time10.5
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karin Balzer
 United Team of Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Teresa Ciepły
 Poland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pam Kilborn
 Australia
← 1960
1968 →
Official Video Highlights @59:07 Video on YouTube

The women's 80 metres hurdles was the only women's hurdle race in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October and 19 October 1964.[1] 31 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 4 not starting the first round. The first round was held on 18 October, with the semifinals and final on 19 October. The 1965 film Tokyo Olympiad by Kon Ichikawa shows amazingly great detail of the preliminaries, preparation, final and medal ceremony surrounding this event. The slow motion study of the final shows Yoda Ikuko getting a fast start. Joining Ikuko in the lead is Teresa Ciepły. Rosie Bonds crashed the second hurdle and is awkward the rest of the race. By the third hurdle Pam Kilborn has overtaken Ikuko and Ciepły for the lead. Karin Balzer and Irina Press were close behind. Over the course of the final five hurdles, Balzer and Press edged closer as Ikuko lost a little ground. Ciepły, Kilborn and Balzer landing at virtually the same moment and Press inches behind. On the run in, Balzer was able to gain just enough ground to take the gold over a straining Ciepły.

Results

[edit]

First round

[edit]

The top four runners in each of the 4 heats advanced.

Heat 1

[edit]
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany 10.7 seconds
2 Galina Bystrova  Soviet Union 10.9 seconds
3 Rose Hart  Ghana 11.3 seconds
4 Snejana Kerkova  Bulgaria 11.5 seconds
5 Lorraine Dunn  Panama 11.5 seconds
Amy Snider  Canada Disqualified
Amelia Hinten  Netherlands Did not start

Heat 2

[edit]
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.7 seconds
2 Pat Pryce  Great Britain 10.8 seconds
3 Avis Mcintosh  New Zealand 10.8 seconds
4 Gundula Diel  United Team of Germany 10.9 seconds
5 Cherrie Sherrard  United States 11.0 seconds
6 Marlene Canguio  France 11.0 seconds
7 Chi Cheng  Taiwan 11.1 seconds
8 Sirkka Norrlund  Finland 11.2 seconds

Heat 3

[edit]

There was a strong wind behind the runners; the official report does not credit Piątkowska with equalling the Olympic record of 10.6 seconds.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Maria Piątkowska  Poland 10.6 seconds
2 Pam Kilborn  Australia 10.7 seconds
3 Tatyana Talysheva  Soviet Union 10.9 seconds
4 Lacey O'Neal  United States 10.9 seconds
5 Carmen Smith  Jamaica 11.8 seconds
6 Yeh Chu Mei  Taiwan 12.1 seconds
Zenta Kopp  United Team of Germany Did not start
Mary Rand  Great Britain Did not start

Heat 4

[edit]
Left-right: Jenny Meldrum, Teresa Ciepły, Ikuko Yoda and Draga Stamejčič running heat 4
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Rosie Bonds  United States 10.6 seconds
2 Yoda Ikuko  Japan 10.7 seconds
3 Teresa Ciepły  Poland 10.7 seconds
4 Draga Stamejčič  Yugoslavia 10.8 seconds
5 Jenny Wingerson  Canada 11.1 seconds
6 Inge Aigner  Austria 11.2 seconds
7 Mary Musani  Uganda 12.9 seconds
Denise Guenard  France Did not start

Semifinals

[edit]

The top four runners in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

[edit]
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Pam Kilborn  Australia 10.6 seconds =OR
2 Teresa Ciepły  Poland 10.7 seconds
3 Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.8 seconds
4 Rosie Bonds  United States 10.8 seconds
5 Avis Mcintosh  New Zealand 10.9 seconds
6 Tatyana Talysheva  Soviet Union 10.9 seconds
7 Gundula Diel  United Team of Germany 11.0 seconds
8 Snejana Kerkova  Bulgaria 11.4 seconds

Semifinal 2

[edit]
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany 10.6 seconds =OR
2 Yoda Ikuko  Japan 10.7 seconds
3 Draga Stamejčič  Yugoslavia 10.7 seconds
4 Maria Piątkowska  Poland 10.7 seconds
5 Pat Pryce  Great Britain 10.7 seconds
6 Galina Bystrova  Soviet Union 10.8 seconds
7 Leahseneth O'Neal  United States 10.9 seconds
8 Rose Hart  Ghana 11.1 seconds

Final

[edit]

Balzer, Ciepły, and Kilborn are not credited by the official report with tying the world record of 10.5 seconds (and breaking the 10.6 second Olympic record) due to the wind advantage. They finished in one of the closest endings to an Olympic final ever, with Balzer defeating Ciepły by about one-hundredth of a second and Kilborn by two one-hundredths.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany 10.5 seconds
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Teresa Ciepły  Poland 10.5 seconds
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pam Kilborn  Australia 10.6 seconds
4 Irina Press  Soviet Union 10.6 seconds
5 Ikuko Yoda  Japan 10.7 seconds
6 Maria Piątkowska  Poland 10.7 seconds
7 Draga Stamejčič  Yugoslavia 10.8 seconds
8 Rosie Bonds  United States 10.8 seconds

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 80 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2017.