Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 1 (heats and quarterfinals) September 2 (semifinals and final)
Medalists
Wilma Rudolph United States   Dorothy Hyman Great Britain   Giuseppina Leone Italy

Official Video Highlights

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 100 metres sprint event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 2.

Results

Heats

The fastest four runners in each of the seven heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	11.87
2	Barbara Jones	United States	11.91
3	Eleanor Haslam	Canada	12.21
4	Elizabeth Jenner	Great Britain	12.39

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pat Duggan	Australia	12.18
2	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	12.40
3	Vivi Markussen	Denmark	12.53
4	Nancy Lewington	Canada	12.67

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	11.83
2	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	12.10
3	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	12.24
4	Carlota Gooden	Panama	12.36

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	12.04
2	Betty Cuthbert	Australia	12.21
3	Valerie Morgan	New Zealand	12.61
4	Snezhana Kerkova	Bulgaria	12.66

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.98
2	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer	Germany	12.31
3	Jean Holmes-Mitchell	Panama	12.52
4	Valerie Jerome	Canada	12.58
5	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	12.59
6	Ilana Adir	Israel	13.04

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	11.65
2	Catherine Capdevielle	France	11.94
3	Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann	Poland	12.13
4	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	12.45

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina	Soviet Union	11.97
2	Brunhilde Hendrix	Germany	11.99
3	Teresa Ciepły-Wieczorek	Poland	12.25
4	Martha Hudson	United States	12.33
5	Aycan Önel	Turkey	13.59

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	11.70
2	Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina	Soviet Union	12.14
3	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	12.25
4	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer	Germany	12.26
5	Eleanor Haslam	Canada	12.46
6	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	12.54
7	Valerie Morgan	New Zealand	12.66

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	11.88
2	Brunhilde Hendrix	Germany	12.02
3	Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann	Poland	12.10
4	Pat Duggan	Australia	12.32
5	Jean Holmes-Mitchell	Panama	12.39
6	Elizabeth Jenner	Great Britain	12.50
7	Snezhana Kerkova	Bulgaria	12.80

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy
2	Catherine Capdevielle	France
3	Jenny Smart	Great Britain
4	Martha Hudson	United States
5	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia
6	Carlota Gooden	Panama
7	Nancy Lewington	Canada

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.77
2	Barbara Jones	United States	12.02
3	Teresa Ciepły-Wieczorek	Poland	12.14
4	Betty Cuthbert	Australia	12.18
5	Valerie Jerome	Canada	12.50
6	Vivi Markussen	Denmark	12.56

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	11.41	=WR
2	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	11.71
3	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	11.89
4	Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann	Poland	11.93
5	Brunhilde Hendrix	Germany	11.99
6	Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina	Soviet Union	12.08

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.65
2	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	11.78
3	Catherine Capdevielle	France	11.82
4	Barbara Jones	United States	11.84
5	Teresa Ciepły-Wieczorek	Poland	12.05
6	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	12.05

Final

Wind = 2.8 m/s.
Wind was over the allotted speed. All time in finals were wind assisted and do not count toward world or Olympic records.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilma Rudolph	United States	11.18
	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.43
	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	11.48
4	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	11.54
5	Catherine Capdevielle	France	11.64
6	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	11.72

Key: =WR = equaled world record

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-13.