Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 1 (heats and semifinals) August 2 (final)
Medalists
Stanisława Walasiewicz   Poland   Hilda Strike   Canada   Wilhelmina von Bremen   United States

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 100 metres sprint event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place between August 1 and August 2 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The final was won by Pole Stanisława Walasiewicz.

In 1980, after her shooting death as a bystander at an armed robbery, 1932 race winner Stanisława Walasiewicz was revealed to be intersex, and possibly ineligible to compete under modern gender determination tests.^[1] No change has been made to the records for the 1932 women's 100 metres race.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	11.9	=WR
	Hilda Strike	Canada	11.9	=WR
	Wilhelmina von Bremen	United States	12.0
4	Marie Dollinger	Germany	12.2
5	Eileen Hiscock	Great Britain	12.3
6	Elizabeth Wilde	United States	12.3

Key: =WR = Equalled world record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-04.

Notes

1. (English) Associated Press (corporate author) (23 January 1981). "Report Says Stella Walsh; Had Male Sex Organs". The New York Times (23 January 1981). Retrieved 31 May 2006.