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*First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds, [[Shirley Strickland]], [[Australia|AUS]], July 24, 1952 |
*First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds, [[Shirley Strickland]], [[Australia|AUS]], July 24, 1952 |
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*Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, [[Vera Korsakova]], [[USSR]], June 16, 1968 |
*Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, [[Vera Korsakova]], [[USSR]], June 16, 1968 |
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*[[Maureen Caird]]'s winning time of 10.39'''A''' at the 1968 Olympics is intrinsically better than the hand timed record, but at the time, [[IAAF]] did not have any rules in place to recognize automatic times. When those rules were put in place in 1977, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade. |
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==Olympic Games== |
==Olympic Games== |
Revision as of 09:12, 23 May 2014
80 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling ran by women until 1972 in international competitions.
Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.[1]
Masters athletics
The distance, with different spacing between hurdles is still in use in Masters athletics in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.[2]
History
- First official time: 13.0 seconds, Ludmila Sychrová, Czechoslovakia, July 6, 1926
- First official world record: 12.8 seconds, Eva von Bredow, Germany, June 14, 1927
- First runner under 12 seconds: 11.8 seconds, Babe Didrikson, USA, August 3, 1932
- First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds, Shirley Strickland, AUS, July 24, 1952
- Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, Vera Korsakova, USSR, June 16, 1968
- Maureen Caird's winning time of 10.39A at the 1968 Olympics is intrinsically better than the hand timed record, but at the time, IAAF did not have any rules in place to recognize automatic times. When those rules were put in place in 1977, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade.
Olympic Games
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1968 Mexico City | ![]() |
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See also
References
- ^ "Women's 80/100 Meters Hurdles - Del's Athletics Almanac". athletics.hitsites.deaccessdate=24 October 2012.
- ^ http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/laws_rules/Appendix-A-K.pdf