Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad

Venue

Olympic Stadium

Date

24–25 July

Competitors

39 from 21 nations

Winning time

11.08

Medalists

	Annegret Richter	West Germany
	Renate Stecher	East Germany
	Inge Helten	West Germany

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's 100 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 24–25 July.

Competition format

The Women's 100m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Quarterfinals, Semifinals and a Final. The five fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Quarterfinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Quarterfinal races qualified for the Semifinals, where again the four fastest runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Inge Helten (FRG)	11.04	Fürth, West Germany	June 13, 1976
Olympic record	Renate Stecher (GDR)	11.07	Munich, East Germany	2 September 1972

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Helten, IngeInge Helten	West Germany	11.26	Q
2	Zharkova-Maslakova, LyudmilaLyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.30	Q
3	Allwood, RosieRosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.35	Q
4	Bailey, MarjorieMarjorie Bailey	Canada	11.46	Q
5	Colyear-Danville, SharonSharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	11.47	Q
6	Cummings, CarolCarol Cummings	Jamaica	11.69	q
7	Forde, LornaLorna Forde	Barbados	12.02

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Morehead, BrendaBrenda Morehead	United States	11.35	Q
2	Loverock, PattyPatty Loverock	Canada	11.47	Q
3	Hodges, LeliethLelieth Hodges	Jamaica	11.54	Q
4	Garcia, Esmeralda de JesusEsmeralda de Jesus Garcia	Brazil	11.80	Q
5	Jones, DebbieDebbie Jones	Bermuda	11.84	Q
6	Hendricks, RitaRita Hendricks	Virgin Islands	13.51

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Boyle, RaeleneRaelene Boyle	Australia	11.39	Q
2	Haglund, LindaLinda Haglund	Sweden	11.40	Q
3	Jowett, SueSue Jowett	New Zealand	11.70	Q
4	Taylor, IsabelIsabel Taylor	Cuba	11.73	Q
5	Howe, MargaretMargaret Howe	Canada	11.83	Q
6	Ferguson, ShonelShonel Ferguson	Bahamas	12.26

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Cheeseborough, ChandraChandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.28	Q
2	Anisimova, VeraVera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.37	Q
3	Chivás, SilviaSilvia Chivás	Cuba	11.43	Q
4	Poßekel, ElviraElvira Poßekel	West Germany	11.48	Q
5	Robertson, DeniseDenise Robertson	Australia	11.50	Q
6	Blos, MartinaMartina Blos	East Germany	11.70
7	Rieuwpassa, CarolinaCarolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	11.98

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Oelsner, MarliesMarlies Oelsner	East Germany	11.36	Q
2	Lynch, AndreaAndrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.40	Q
3	Telliez, SylvianeSylviane Telliez	France	11.47	Q
4	Besfamilnaya, NadezhdaNadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	11.52	Q
5	Alaerts, LeaLea Alaerts	Belgium	11.63	Q
6	Estrella, DivinaDivina Estrella	Dominican Republic	12.12

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Richter, AnnegretAnnegret Richter	West Germany	11.19	Q
2	Stecher, RenateRenate Stecher	East Germany	11.21	Q
3	Ashford, EvelynEvelyn Ashford	United States	11.25	Q
4	Wells, DebbieDebbie Wells	Australia	11.47	Q
5	Valdés, CarmenCarmen Valdés	Cuba	11.47	Q
6	Strandvall-Pursiainen, Mona-LisaMona-Lisa Strandvall-Pursiainen	Finland	11.62	q
7	Gauthier, AntoinetteAntoinette Gauthier	Haiti	13.11

Quarterfinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Richter, AnnegretAnnegret Richter	West Germany	11.05	Q, OR
2	Oelsner, MarliesMarlies Oelsner	East Germany	11.27	Q
3	Allwood, RosieRosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.34	Q
4	Loverock, PattyPatty Loverock	Canada	11.50	Q
5	Besfamilnaya, NadezhdaNadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	11.63
6	Telliez, SylvianeSylviane Telliez	France	11.64
7	Garcia, Esmeralda de JesusEsmeralda de Jesus Garcia	Brazil	11.77

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Helten, IngeInge Helten	West Germany	11.20	Q
2	Cheeseborough, ChandraChandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.36	Q
3	Lynch, AndreaAndrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.36	Q
4	Haglund, LindaLinda Haglund	Sweden	11.48	Q
5	Valdés, CarmenCarmen Valdés	Cuba	11.52
6	Robertson-Boyd, DeniseDenise Robertson-Boyd	Australia	11.56
7	Cummings, CarolCarol Cummings	Jamaica	11.75
8	Jowett, SueSue Jowett	New Zealand	11.81

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ashford, EvelynEvelyn Ashford	United States	11.28	Q
2	Boyle, RaeleneRaelene Boyle	Australia	11.29	Q
3	Zharkova-Maslakova, LyudmilaLyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.37	Q
4	Chivás, SilviaSilvia Chivás	Cuba	11.42	Q
5	Colyear-Danville, SharonSharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	11.51
6	Poßekel, ElviraElvira Poßekel	West Germany	11.58
7	Alaerts, LeaLea Alaerts	Belgium	11.71
8	Howe, MargaretMargaret Howe	Canada	11.96

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Stecher, RenateRenate Stecher	East Germany	11.22	Q
2	Morehead, BrendaBrenda Morehead	United States	11.30	Q
3	Bailey, MarjorieMarjorie Bailey	Canada	11.44	Q
4	Anisimova, VeraVera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.47	Q
5	Wells, DebbieDebbie Wells	Australia	11.51
6	Hodges, LeliethLelieth Hodges	Jamaica	11.58
7	Strandvall-Pursiainen, Mona-LisaMona-Lisa Strandvall-Pursiainen	Finland	11.72
8	Taylor, IsabelIsabel Taylor	Cuba	11.92

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Richter, AnnegretAnnegret Richter	West Germany	11.01	Q , WR
2	Ashford, EvelynEvelyn Ashford	United States	11.21	Q
3	Cheeseborough, ChandraChandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.26	Q
4	Oelsner, MarliesMarlies Oelsner	East Germany	11.29	Q
5	Allwood, RosieRosie Allwood	Jamaica	11.32
6	Anisimova, VeraVera Anisimova	Soviet Union	11.39
7	Chivás, SilviaSilvia Chivás	Cuba	11.43
8	Bailey, MarjorieMarjorie Bailey	Canada	11.47

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Stecher, RenateRenate Stecher	East Germany	11.10	Q
2	Helten, IngeInge Helten	West Germany	11.18	Q
3	Boyle, RaeleneRaelene Boyle	Australia	11.22	Q
4	Lynch, AndreaAndrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.28	Q
5	Zharkova-Maslakova, LyudmilaLyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.34
6	Morehead, BrendaBrenda Morehead	United States	11.38
7	Loverock, PattyPatty Loverock	Canada	11.40
8	Haglund, LindaLinda Haglund	Sweden	11.41

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
01 !	Richter, AnnegretAnnegret Richter	West Germany	11.08
02 !	Stecher, RenateRenate Stecher	East Germany	11.13
03 !	Helten, IngeInge Helten	West Germany	11.17
4	Boyle, RaeleneRaelene Boyle	Australia	11.23
5	Ashford, EvelynEvelyn Ashford	United States	11.24
6	Cheeseborough, ChandraChandra Cheeseborough	United States	11.31
7	Lynch, AndreaAndrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.32
8	Oelsner, MarliesMarlies Oelsner	East Germany	11.34

References

Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 19, 2012.

100 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Complete event history

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

See also: Men's 100 m at the 1906 Intercalated Games Men's 60 metres: 1900 1904

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