Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	3 August (Heats & semifinals) 4 August (Final)
Competitors	21 from 6 nations
Winning time	11.2 WR
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands Maureen Gardner  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
v t e

The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place on 3 and 4 August. The final was won by Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen.^[1]

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

World Record	Claudia Testoni (ITA)  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	11.3	Dresden, Germany Amsterdam, Netherlands	13 August 1939 20 September 1942
Olympic Record	Ondina Valla (ITA)	11.6	Berlin, Germany	5 August 1936

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
4 August	Final	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	11.2	OR

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Round 1 took place on 3 August. The fastest three runners in each heat advanced to the semifinals.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.3	OR
2	Joan Upton	Great Britain	11.8
3	Jeanine Toulouse	France	12.0
4	Mirja Jämes	Finland
5	Marion Huber	Chile
6	Theresa Manuel	United States

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.6
2	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	11.8
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	11.8
4	Janine Magnin-Lamouche	France	11.9
5	Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavoudinou	Greece

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Yvette Monginou	France	11.7
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.9
3	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	11.9
4	Bernice Robinson	United States	11.9	Est
5	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	12.2
2	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	12.2
3	Jean Walraven	United States	12.6
4	Kyllikki Naukkarinen	Finland
5	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica

Semifinals took place on 3 August. The top three runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.4
2	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	11.9
3	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	12.0
4	Joan Upton	Great Britain
5	Jeanine Toulouse	France
6	Jean Walraven	United States

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.7
2	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8
3	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.8
4	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina
5	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands
6	Elfriede Steurer	Austria

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.2	OR
	Maureen Gardner	Great Britain	11.2	OR
	Shirley Strickland	Australia	11.4
4	Yvette Monginou	France	11.8	Est
5	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	11.8	Est
6	Libuše Lomská	Czechoslovakia	11.9	Est

Key: Est = Time is an estimate, OR = Olympic record

Wind: 1.9 m/s

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.