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

The women's 100 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 31 and August 2. The final was won by Dutchwoman Fanny Blankers-Koen.^[1]

Women's 100 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
100m final
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	July 31, 1948 (heats) August 2, 1948 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	33 from 20 nations
Winning time	11.9
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands Dorothy Manley  Great Britain Shirley Strickland  Australia
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Video on YouTube Official Video
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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).

Date	Time
Saturday, 31 July 1948	14:45	Round 1
Monday, 2 August 1948	15:30 16:45	Semifinals Finals

Results

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	12.0	Q
2	Viola Myers	Canada	12.5	Q
3	Betty McKinnon	Australia	12.7
4	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	12.4	Q
2	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.9	Q
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	13.1
4	Benedicta de Oliveira	Brazil	13.2
5	Tilly Decker	Luxembourg

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Grethe Lovsø Nielsen	Denmark	12.6	Q
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	12.7	Q
3	Audrey Patterson	United States	12.8
4	Joyce King	Australia	13.1
5	Betty Kretschmer	Chile

Heat 4

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

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Doris Batter	Great Britain	12.6	Q
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	12.9	Q
3	Lillian Young	United States	13.0
4	Elizabeth Müller	Brazil	13.2	Est

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.1	Q
2	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda	13.0	Q
3	Marie-Thérèse Renard	Belgium	13.6

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Olga Šicnerová	Czechoslovakia	12.4	Q
2	Bente Bergendorff	Denmark	12.6	Q
3	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	13.2
4	Üner Teoman	Turkey	13.6

Heat 8

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

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Patricia Jones	Canada	12.7	Q
2	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands	12.9	Q
3	Jeanine Moussier	France	12.9
4	Liv Paulsen	Norway	12.9

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

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

Semifinal 2

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

Semifinal 3

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9
	Dorothy Manley	Great Britain	12.2
	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