Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	July 31 (heats) August 2 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	33 from 20 nations
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen Netherlands   Dorothy Manley Great Britain   Shirley Strickland Australia

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
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
10 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
Decathlon		men

The women's 100 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 31 and August 2. The final was won by Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Records

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

World record Olympic record

Helen Stephens (USA)

11.5 s

Berlin, Germany

4 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Results

Round 1

The fastest two runners in each heat advanced to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0
2	Viola Myers	Canada	12.5
3	Betty McKinnon	Australia	12.7
4	Maria Oberbrever-Trosch	Austria

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4	'
2	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.9
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	13.1
4	Benedita de Oliveira	Brazil	13.2
5	Tilly Decker	Luxembourg

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Grete Lovso Nielsen	Denmark	12.6	'
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	12.7
3	Audrey Patterson	United States	12.8
4	Joyce King	Australia	13.1
5	Betty Kretschmer	Chile

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.4	'
2	Daphne Robb-Hasenjager	South Africa	12.4
3	Mabel Walker	United States	12.2
4	Millie Cheater	Canada	12.3

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Doris Batter	Great Britain	12.6	'
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	12.9
3	Lillian Young	United States	13.0
4	Elizabeth Müller	Brazil	13.2	EST

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.1	'
2	Phyllis Lightbourne-Jones	Bermuda	13.0
3	Marie-Therese Renard	Belgium	13.6

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Olga Sicnerova	Czechoslovakia	12.4	'
2	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark	12.6
3	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	13.2
4	Uner Teoman	Turkey	13.6

Heat 8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.8	'
2	Xenia Stad-de Jong	Netherlands	12.9
3	Phyllis Edness	Bermuda	13.6
4	Grete Pavlousek	Austria	13.6
5	Alma Butia	Yugoslavia	13.6

Heat 9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.7	'
2	Gre de Jongh	Netherlands	12.9
3	Jeanine Moussier	France	12.9
4	Liv Paulsen	Norway	12.9

Semifinals

The fastest two runners in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4
3	Grete Lovso Nielsen	Denmark	12.7
4	Doris Batter	Great Britain
5	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy
6	Phyllis Edness	Bermuda

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.4
2	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.6
3	Daphne Robb-Hasenjager	South Africa	12.7
4	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark
5	Xenia Stad-de Jong	Netherlands
6	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Viola Myers	Canada	12.4
2	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.5
3	Olga Sicnerova	Czechoslovakia	12.5
3	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.5
5	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain
6	Gre de Jongh	Netherlands

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
01 !	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9
02 !	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.2
03 !	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.2
4	Viola Myers	Canada	12.3	Est
5	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.4	Est
6	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	12.6	Est

Key: Est = Time is an estimated

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-18.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.