Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	August 3 (Heats & semifinals) August 4 (Final)
Competitors	6 from 6 nations
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen Netherlands   Maureen Gardner 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 80 metres hurdles event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place August 3 and August 4. The final was won by Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.2	OR
	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.2	OR
	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.4
4	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8	Est
5	Maria Oberbreyer-Trösch	Austria	11.8	Est
6	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	11.9	Est

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

Wind: 1.9 m/s

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 80 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-19.