Women's 100 yards at the Commonwealth Games
Venue	Independence Park, Kingston
Dates	August 6 and 8, 1966
Medalists
Dianne Burge    Australia   Irene Piotrowski    Canada   Jill Hall    England
← 1962 Perth (AUS) Edinburgh 1970 →

Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men	women
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 miles walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The women's 100 yards event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 8 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested at the Games: in 1970 it was replaced by the 100 metres.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dianne Burge  Australia	Irene Piotrowski  Canada	Jill Hall  England

^[2]

The first 3 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Heat 1: ? m/s; Heat 2: 0.0 m/s; Heat 3: +0.4 m/s; Heat 4: +0.8 m/s; Heat 5: -0.5 m/s

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Daphne Slater	England	10.8	Q
2	1	Marjorie Turner	Canada	10.8	Q
3	1	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	10.9	Q
4	1	Maria Jinadu	Nigeria	11.1
5	1	Gloria Dourass	Wales	11.2
6	1	Lydia Stephens	Kenya	11.6
7	1	Thora Best	Trinidad and Tobago	11.6
8	1	Marie Sesay	Sierra Leone	12.0
1	2	Dianne Burge	Australia	10.65	Q
2	2	Elizabeth Parsons	Wales	11.0	Q
3	2	Valerie Parker	Canada	11.1	Q
4	2	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.1
5	2	Olajumoke Bodunrin	Nigeria	11.2
6	2	Alix Jamieson	Scotland	11.3
7	2	Teresa Johnson	Sierra Leone	11.4
8	2	Esther Maganga	Tanzania	11.8
1	3	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	10.6	Q
2	3	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	10.7	Q
3	3	Janet Simpson	England	10.8	Q
4	3	Pam Kilborn	Australia	11.01
5	3	Regina Okafor	Nigeria	11.2
6	3	Millicent Jackson	Sierra Leone	12.3
1	4	Jenny Lamy	Australia	10.93	Q
2	4	Jill Hall	England	10.9	Q
3	4	Sigrid Sandiford	Trinidad and Tobago	11.0	Q
4	4	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.0
5	4	Oyeronke Akindele	Nigeria	11.1
6	4	Thelwyn Appleby	Wales	11.3
7	4	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.3
8	4	Olive Palmer-Davies	Sierra Leone	11.7
1	5	Joyce Bennett	Australia	10.95	Q
2	5	Maureen Tranter	England	11.0	Q
3	5	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	11.0	Q
4	1	Ana Ramacake	Fiji	11.1
5	1	Elizabeth Gill	Wales	11.1
6	1	Lorna McGarvey	Northern Ireland	11.2
7	1	Sybil Donmartin	Trinidad and Tobago	11.5

^[2]

The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Heat 1: +0.1 m/s; Heat 2: +3.8 m/s

Semifinals results

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Dianne Burge	Australia	10.58	Q, GR
2	1	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	10.6	Q
3	1	Jenny Lamy	Australia	10.82	Q
4	1	Daphne Slater	England	10.8	Q
5	1	Valerie Parker	Canada	10.8
6	1	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	10.8
7	1	Elizabeth Parsons	Wales	11.0
8	1	Maureen Tranter	England	11.1
1	2	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	10.7	Q
2	2	Joyce Bennett	Australia	10.72	Q
3	2	Jill Hall	England	10.7	Q
4	2	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	10.8	Q
5	2	Janet Simpson	England	10.8
6	2	Marjorie Turner	Canada	10.8
7	2	Sigrid Sandiford	Trinidad and Tobago	11.0

^[3]

0.0 m/s

Final results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dianne Burge	Australia	10.6
	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	10.8
	Jill Hall	England	10.8
4	Jenny Lamy	Australia	10.8
5	Joyce Bennett	Australia	10.8
6	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	10.9
7	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	10.9
8	Daphne Slater	England	11.0