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

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	July 28–29
Competitors	21 from 15 nations
Winning time	12.77
Medalists
Johanna Schaller-Klier   East Germany   Tatyana Anisimova   Soviet Union   Natalya Lebedeva   Soviet Union

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 hurdles competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on July 28–29.

Competition format

The Women's 100m hurdles competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The four fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the semifinals. The top four athletes from each semifinals race advanced to the final.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	12.59	Munich, West Germany	8 September 1972
Olympic record

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anisimova, TatyanaTatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.98	Q
2	Rabsztyn, GrażynaGrażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.09	Q
3	Colyear-Danville, SharonSharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	13.18	Q
4	Prévost, NadineNadine Prévost	France	13.70	Q
5	Donnelly, PatricePatrice Donnelly	United States	13.71
6	Gomis, JulieJulie Gomis	Senegal	14.57

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nowakowska, BożenaBożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.05	Q
2	Ongar, IleanaIleana Ongar	Italy	13.37	Q
3	Ehrhardt, AnnelieAnnelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.49	Q
4	LaPlante, DebyDeby LaPlante	United States	13.51	Q
5	Dell, GayeGaye Dell	Australia	13.68
6	Bradley-Kameli, SueSue Bradley-Kameli	Canada	14.07

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lebedeva, NatalyaNatalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.94	Q
2	Schaller-Klier, JohannaJohanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	13.02	Q
3	Sokolova, PenkaPenka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.52	Q
4	Boothe, LornaLorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.69	Q
5	Brady, RhondaRhonda Brady	United States	13.84

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Berend, GudrunGudrun Berend	East Germany	13.03	Q
2	Roth-Shahamorov, EstherEsther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.06	Q
3	Kononova, LyubovLyubov Kononova	Soviet Union	13.36	Q
4	Bufanu, ValeriaValeria Bufanu	Romania	13.60	Q
5	Noeding, EdithEdith Noeding	Peru	14.14
6	Vaamonde, LucíaLucía Vaamonde	Venezuela	19.17

Semifinals

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Schaller-Klier, JohannaJohanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	12.93	Q
2	Berend, GudrunGudrun Berend	East Germany	12.96	Q
3	Lebedeva, NatalyaNatalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.03	Q
4	Roth-Shahamorov, EstherEsther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.04	Q
5	Nowakowska, BożenaBożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.04
6	LaPlante, DebyDeby LaPlante	United States	13.36
7	Sokolova, PenkaPenka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.67
8	Boothe, LornaLorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.73

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anisimova, TatyanaTatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.08	Q
2	Rabsztyn, GrażynaGrażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.35	Q
3	Ongar, IleanaIleana Ongar	Italy	13.41	Q
4	Bufanu, ValeriaValeria Bufanu	Romania	13.59	Q
5	Ehrhardt, AnnelieAnnelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.71
6	Prévost, NadineNadine Prévost	France	13.95
7	Colyear-Danville, SharonSharon Colyear-Danville	Great Britain	17.32

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Schaller-Klier, JohannaJohanna Schaller-Klier	East Germany	12.77
	Anisimova, TatyanaTatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.78
	Lebedeva, NatalyaNatalya Lebedeva	Soviet Union	12.80
4	Berend, GudrunGudrun Berend	East Germany	12.82
5	Rabsztyn, GrażynaGrażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.96
6	Roth-Shahamorov, EstherEsther Roth-Shahamorov	Israel	13.04
7	Bufanu, ValeriaValeria Bufanu	Romania	13.35
8	Ongar, IleanaIleana Ongar	Italy	13.51

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 20, 2012.