Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metre hurdles
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The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1932 Olympic Games
took place between August 3 and August 4 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
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Heat two
Key: WR = World record; DNF = did not finish
1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...
took place between August 3 and August 4 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, at Exposition Park, that is home to the Pacific-12 Conference's University of Southern California Trojans football team...
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Heats
First heat| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babe Didrikson | 11.8 | =WR | |
| 2 | Simone Schaller Simone Schaller Simone E. Schaller Kirin is an American athlete who competed in two Olympic Games. At the 1932 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, she finished 4th in the 80m. hurdles event and in 1936, in Berlin, she was eliminated in the semi-finals in the same event. Originally from Connecticut, she moved to... |
11.8 | =WR | |
| 3 | Marjorie Clark Marjorie Clark Marjorie Rees Clark was a South African former track and field athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics andin the 1932 Summer Olympics.... |
11.9 | ||
| 4 | Betty Taylor | 12.0 | ||
| 5 | Michiko Nakanishi | DNF | ||
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evelyne Hall Evelyne Hall Evelyne Ruth Hall was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 80 metre Hurdles... |
12.0 | ||
| 2 | Violet Webb Violet Webb Violet Blanche Webb was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.... |
12.1 | ||
| 3 | Alda Wilson | 12.1 | ||
| 4 | Felicja Schabińska | 12.8 | ||
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babe Didrikson | 11.7 | WR | ||
| Evelyne Hall Evelyne Hall Evelyne Ruth Hall was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 80 metre Hurdles... |
11.7 | WR | ||
| Marjorie Clark Marjorie Clark Marjorie Rees Clark was a South African former track and field athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics andin the 1932 Summer Olympics.... |
11.8 | |||
| 4 | Simone Schaller Simone Schaller Simone E. Schaller Kirin is an American athlete who competed in two Olympic Games. At the 1932 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, she finished 4th in the 80m. hurdles event and in 1936, in Berlin, she was eliminated in the semi-finals in the same event. Originally from Connecticut, she moved to... |
11.8 | ||
| 5 | Violet Webb Violet Webb Violet Blanche Webb was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.... |
11.9 | ||
| 6 | Alda Wilson | 12.0 |
Key: WR = World record; DNF = did not finish