Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

The women's 80 metres hurdles hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1.^[1]

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 31(heats and semifinals) September 1 (final)
Competitors	36 from 21 nations
Winning time	10.9
Medalists
Irina Press  Soviet Union Carole Quinton  Great Britain Gisela Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany
← 1956 1964 →

Results

Heats

The top two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.91	OR
2	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	11.07
3	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	11.47
4	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	11.60
5	Irene Robertson	United States	11.69

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Mary Bignal-Rand	Great Britain	11.40
2	Norma Thrower	Australia	11.54
3	Snezhana Kerkova	Bulgaria	11.73
4	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.84
5	Bertha Díaz	Cuba	11.84

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Rimma Koshelyova	Soviet Union	11.26
2	Denise Laborie-Guénard	France	11.37
3	Alena Stolzová	Czechoslovakia	11.59
4	Jo Ann Terry-Grissom	United States	11.59

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gisela Birkemeyer	United Team of Germany	11.31
2	Barbara Sosgórnik	Poland	11.56
3	Pat Nutting	Great Britain	11.65
4	Sally McCallum	Canada	11.90
5	Friedl Murauer	Austria	12.08

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Karin Balzer	United Team of Germany	11.40
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.46
3	Simone Brièrre	France	11.75
4	Gloria Cooke-Wigney	Australia	11.89

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Zenta Gastl-Kopp	United Team of Germany	11.10
2	Galina Bystrova	Soviet Union	11.26
3	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	11.54
4	Shirley Crowder	United States	12.43
5	Chi Cheng	Formosa	12.71

Semifinal

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Galina Bystrova	Soviet Union	11.16
2	Mary Bignal-Rand	Great Britain	11.16
3	Rimma Koshelyova	Soviet Union	11.22
4	Karin Balzer	United Team of Germany	11.27
5	Norma Thrower	Australia	11.44
6	Barbara Sosgórnik	Poland	11.46

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.77	OR
2	Gisela Birkemeyer	United Team of Germany	11.01
3	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	11.07
4	Zenta Gastl-Kopp	United Team of Germany	11.09
5	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.40
6	Denise Laborie-Guénard	France	11.51

Final

Wind = 0.0 m/s.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Irina Press	Soviet Union	10.93
	Carole Quinton	Great Britain	10.99
	Gisela Birkemeyer	United Team of Germany	11.13
4	Mary Bignal-Rand	Great Britain	11.22
5	Galina Bystrova	Soviet Union	11.26
6	Rimma Koshelyova	Soviet Union	11.28

Key: OR = Olympic record

80 m final. Birkemeyer and Press are in the center, Quinton is on the left

References

1. "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 80 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2017.