Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	July 31 (heats) August 2 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	33 from 20 nations
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen Netherlands   Dorothy Manley Great Britain   Shirley Strickland Australia

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Athletics at the 1948 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 1948 Olympic Games took place July 31 and August 2. The final was won by Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0	'
2	Viola Myers	Canada	12.5
3	Betty McKinnon	Australia	12.7
4	Maria Oberbrever-Trosch	Austria	12.7

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4	'
2	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.9
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	13.1
4	Benedita de Oliveira	Brazil	13.2
5	Tilly Decker	Luxembourg	13.2

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Grete Lovso Nielsen	Denmark	12.6	'
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	12.7
3	Audrey Patterson	United States	12.8
4	Joyce King	Australia	13.1
5	Betty Kretschmer	Chile	13.1

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.4	'
2	Daphne Robb-Hasenjager	South Africa	12.4
3	Mabel Walker	United States	12.2
4	Millie Cheater	Canada	12.3

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Doris Batter	Great Britain	12.6	'
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	12.9
3	Lillian Young	United States	13.0
4	Elizabeth Müller	Brazil	13.2	EST

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.1	'
2	Phyllis Lightbourne-Jones	Bermuda	13.0
3	Marie-Therese Renard	Belgium	13.6

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Olga Sicnerova	Czechoslovakia	12.4	'
2	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark	12.6
3	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	13.2
4	Uner Teoman	Turkey	13.6

Heat 8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.8	'
2	Xenia Stad-de Jong	Netherlands	12.9
3	Phyllis Edness	Bermuda	13.6
4	Grete Pavlousek	Austria	13.6
5	Alma Butia	Yugoslavia	13.6

Heat 9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.7	'
2	Gre de Jongh	Netherlands	12.9
3	Jeanine Moussier	France	12.9
4	Liv Paulsen	Norway	12.9

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9	=OR
	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.2
	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.2
4	Viola Myers	Canada	12.3	Est
5	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.4	Est
6	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.6	Est

Key: Est = Time is an estimate, OR = Equalled Olympic record

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-18.