The women's 80 metres hurdles was the only women's hurdle race in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the athletics competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres and women's pentathlon events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.-Men's...

 program in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

. It was held on 18 October and 19 October 1964. 31 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 4 not starting the first round. The first round was held on 18 October, with the semifinals and final on 19 October. The 1965 film Tokyo Olympiad

Tokyo Olympiad

Tokyo Olympiad is a 1965 documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Ichikawa's film was considered a milestone in documentary filmmaking...

by Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa

was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...

 shows amazingly great detail of the preliminaries, preparation, final and medal ceremony surrounding this event. See that coverage of the race on youtube

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Karin Balzer Karin Balzer Karin Balzer is a former East German hurdler, one of the best in high hurdles event during the 1960s.She was born Karin Richert in Magdeburg, and competed in several track and field events when she was young...		10.7 seconds
2	Galina Bystrova Galina Bystrova Galina Petrovna Bystrova was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon. She trained at Burevestnik in Gorky....		10.9 seconds
3	Rose Hart Rose Hart Rose Hart is a retired female track and field athlete from Ghana. She specialised in the hurdling, the sprints and the discus throw events during his career....		11.3 seconds
4	Snejana Kerkova		11.5 seconds
5	Lorraine Dunn		11.5 seconds
—	Amy Snider		Disqualified
	Amelia Hinten		Did not start

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Irina Press Irina Press Irina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon...		10.7 seconds
2	Patricia Pryce		10.8 seconds
3	Avis Mcintosh Avis McIntosh Avis McIntosh is a former New Zealand sprinter.She joined Lynndale Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club in the children's division in the 12-13 year old age group. She also ran for Glen Eden, Waitemata and Owairaka...		10.8 seconds
4	Gundula Diel		10.9 seconds
5	Cherrie Sherrard Cherrie Sherrard Cherrie Sherrard is a Pan American Games track and field athlete from the United States.-References:*...		11.0 seconds
6	Marlene Canguio Marlene Canguio Marlene Canguio is a French athlete who specialises in hurdles and 4 x 100 meter relay. Canguio competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics.- References :...		11.0 seconds
7	Chi Cheng		11.1 seconds
8	Sirkka Norrlund		11.2 seconds

First round, heat 3

There was a strong wind behind the runners; the official report does not credit Piątkowska with equalling the Olympic record of 10.6 seconds.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Maria Piątkowska Maria Piatkowska Maria Piątkowska née Ilwicka, then Chojnacka is a former Polish sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper....		10.6 seconds
2	Pam Kilborn Pam Kilborn Pamela Kilborn-Ryan, MBE is a former Australian athlete who set world records as a hurdler. She was born in Melbourne...		10.7 seconds
3	Tatyana Talysheva Tatyana Talysheva Tatyana Talysheva is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Long Jump.Talysheva trained at Dynamo in Moscow. She competed for USSR in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the Long Jump where she won the bronze medal.-References:*...		10.9 seconds
4	Leahseneth O'Neal		10.9 seconds
5	Carmen Smith		11.8 seconds
6	Yeh Chu Mei		12.1 seconds
—	Zenta Kopp		Did not start
	Mary Rand Mary Rand Mary Denise Rand, MBE, is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.-Early life:She is the daughter of...		Did not start

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Rosie Bonds Rosie Bonds Rosie Bonds Kreidler competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics for the United States in the Women's 80 metre hurdles. She finished in 1st place in the fourth heat of the first round , in 4th place in the first semifinal , and in 8th place in the final race...		10.6 seconds
2	Yoda Ikuko		10.7 seconds
3	Teresa Ciepły		10.7 seconds
4	Draga Stamejcic		10.8 seconds
5	Jenny Wingerson Jenny Wingerson Jennifer Ann Wingerson-Meldrum is a retired female hurdler and heptathlete from Canada, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1964. She won the silver medal at the 80m hurdles event at the 1963 Pan American Games.-References:*...		11.1 seconds
6	Inge Aigner		11.2 seconds
7	Mary Musani		12.9 seconds
—	Denise Guenard		Did not start

Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Pam Kilborn		10.6 seconds =OR
2	Teresa Ciepły		10.7 seconds
3	Irina Press		10.8 seconds
4	Rosie Bonds		10.8 seconds
5	Avis Mcintosh		10.9 seconds
6	Tatyana Talysheva		10.9 seconds
7	Gundula Diel		11.0 seconds
8	Snejana Kerkova		11.4 seconds

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Karin Balzer		10.6 seconds =OR
2	Yoda Ikuko		10.7 seconds
3	Draga Stamejcic		10.7 seconds
4	Maria Piątkowska		10.7 seconds
5	Patricia Pryce		10.7 seconds
6	Galina Bystrova		10.8 seconds
7	Leahseneth O'Neal		10.9 seconds
8	Rose Hart		11.1 seconds

Final

Balzer, Ciepły, and Kilborn are not credited by the official report with tying the world record of 10.5 seconds (and breaking the 10.6 second Olympic record) due to the wind advantage. They finished in one of the closest endings to an Olympic final ever, with Balzer defeating Ciepły by about one-hundredth of a second and Kilborn by two one-hundredths.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Karin Balzer		10.5 seconds
2	Teresa Ciepły		10.5 seconds
3	Pam Kilborn		10.6 seconds
4	Irina Press		10.6 seconds
5	Yoda Ikuko		10.7 seconds
6	Maria Piątkowska		10.7 seconds
7	Draga Stamejcic		10.8 seconds
8	Rosie Bonds		10.8 seconds