Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 14–15
Competitors	42 from 22 nations
Winning time	11.0 WR
Medalists
Wyomia Tyus   United States   Barbara Ferrell   United States   Irena Szewińska   Poland

Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
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
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's 100 metres competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was held at the University Olympic Stadium on October 14–15.

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 qualified for the quarterfinals. The four fastest runners from each of the quarterfinal races advanced to the semifinals, where again the top four from each race advance to the final.

Records

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

World record	Irena Szewińska (POL)	11.1	Prague, Czechoslovakia	July 9, 1965
Olympic record	Wyomia Tyus (USA)	11.2	Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.2	Q
2	Val Peat	Great Britain	11.5	Q
3	Violetta Quesada	Cuba	11.6	Q
4	Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia	11.6	Q
5	Debbie Miller	Canada	11.7	Q
6	Sylviane Telliez	France	12.0
7	Esperanza Girón	Mexico	12.2

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Margaret Bailes	United States	11.2	Q
2	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.3	Q
3	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.4	Q
4	Pam Kilborn	Australia	11.6	Q
5	Gabrielle Meyer	France	11.6	Q
6	Alicia Kaufmanas	Argentina	11.8
7	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.9

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	11.5	Q
2	Fulgencia Romay	Cuba	11.5	Q
3	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	11.5	Q
4	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.6	Q
5	Oyeronke Akindele	Nigeria	11.6	Q
6	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	11.7
7	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	11.8

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.3	Q
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.4	Q
3	Chi Cheng	Republic of China	11.4	Q
4	Della James-Pascoe	Great Britain	11.7	Q
5	Karin Reichert-Frisch	West Germany	11.9	Q
6	Mária Kiss	Hungary	12.0
N/A	Lydia Stephens	Kenya	DNF

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Eva Lehocká-Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.6	Q
2	Renate Meyer	West Germany	11.7	Q
3	Lyudmila Golomazova	Soviet Union	11.7	Q
4	Truus Hennipman-Cruiming	Netherlands	11.7	Q
5	Stephanie Berto	Canada	11.8	Q
6	Margit Markó-Nemesházi	Hungary	11.9
7	Josefa Vicent	Uruguay	12.5

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.2	Q
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.5	Q
3	Wilma van Gool-van den Berg	Netherlands	11.5	Q
4	Olajumoke Bodunrin	Nigeria	11.6	Q
5	Györgyi Balogh-Szomov	Hungary	11.8	Q
6	Halina Górecka	West Germany	11.8
7	Cecilia Sosa	El Salvador	13.7

Quarterfinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.1	Q
2	Eva Lehocká-Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.2	Q
3	Della James-Pascoe	Great Britain	11.3	Q
4	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.4	Q
5	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.4
6	Pam Kilborn	Australia	11.4
7	Truus Hennipman-Cruiming	Netherlands	11.5
8	Karin Reichert-Frisch	West Germany	11.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.0	Q
2	Chi Cheng	Republic of China	11.3	Q
3	Wilma van Gool-van den Berg	Netherlands	11.4	Q
4	Lyudmila Golomazova	Soviet Union	11.5	Q
5	Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia	11.6
6	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.6
7	Debbie Miller	Canada	11.6

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.2	Q OR
2	Margaret Bailes	United States	11.3	Q
3	Val Peat	Great Britain	11.3	Q
4	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	11.4	Q
5	Violetta Quesada	Cuba	11.6
6	Renate Meyer	West Germany	11.6
7	Oyeronke Akindele	Nigeria	11.7

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.1	Q
2	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	11.3	Q
3	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.3	Q
4	Fulgencia Romay	Cuba	11.4	Q
5	Gabrielle Meyer	France	11.6
6	Györgyi Balogh-Szomov	Hungary	11.7

Semi Finals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.3
2	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.3
3	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	11.4
4	Chi Cheng	Republic of China	11.4
5	Fulgencia Romay	Cuba	11.5
6	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	11.5
7	Della James-Pascoe	Great Britain	11.6
8	Lyudmila Golomazova	Soviet Union	11.7

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.3
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.4
3	Margaret Bailes	United States	11.5
4	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.6
5	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	11.6
6	Eva Lehocká-Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.7
7	Wilma van Gool-van den Berg	Netherlands	11.8
8	Val Peat	Great Britain	11.8

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
01 !	Wyomia Tyus	United States	11.0	WR
02 !	Barbara Ferrell	United States	11.1
03 !	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.1
4	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.1	WJR
5	Margaret Bailes	United States	11.3
6	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	11.4
7	Chi Cheng	Republic of China	11.5
8	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	11.6

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 15, 2012.