80 metres hurdles at the 1934 Women's World Games
Venue	White City Stadium
Location	London
Dates	9 August (heats) 10 August (semi-finals) 11 August (final)
Winning time	11.6
Medalists
Ruth Engelhard    Germany   Betty Taylor    Canada   Violet Webb    Great Britain
← 1930

Athletics at the 1934 Women's World Games
Track events
60 m	women
100 m	women
200 m	women
800 m	women
80 m hurdles	women
4×100 m relay	women
Field events
High jump	women
Long jump	women
Shot put	women
Discus throw	women
Javelin throw	women
Combined events
pentathlon	women
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The 80 metres hurdles at the 1934 Women's World Games was held at the White City Stadium in London, from 9 to 11 August 1934.

During the heats the starter waited a very long time in before firing the start gun. In heat 4 the Dutch Agaath Doorgeest was disqualified after making two false starts. The British public did not agree. The audience started to whistle and there were chants. The public demanded that she got another chance. When that (of course) didn't happen, the public request the starter who was the starter at the Empire Games a few days earlier. It took so long for the crowd to calm down that some of the athletes didn't want to start anymore.^[1][2]

In the final, the German Ruth Engelhard won the event in 11.6 seconds that was a new world record, beating the previous world record 11.7 seconds of the American Babe Didrikson.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ondina Valla	Italy	12 sec.	Q
2	Violet Webb	Great Britain		Q
3	Maryla Freiwald	Poland		Q
4
5
6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marjorie Clark	South Africa	12 sec.	Q
2	Gerda Pirch	Germany		Q
3	Roxy Atkins	Canada		Q
4
5
6

Sources:^[3][4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bets ter Horst	Netherlands	12.2	Q
2	Elsie Green	Great Britain		Q
3	Burstey	Palestine		Q
4
5
6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ruth Engelhard	Germany	12.5	Q
2	Betty Taylor	Canada		Q
3
4
5
DQ	Agaath Doorgeest	NED		2 false starts[4]

Source:^[2]

Gerda Pirch from Germany who won the silver medal in 1930 finished fourth in one of the semi-finals and was eliminated.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ruth Engelhard	Germany		Q
2	Elsie Green	Great Britain		Q
3	Roxy Atkins	Canada		Q
4
5
6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Violet Webb	Great Britain		Q
2	Betty Taylor	Canada		Q
3	Marjorie Clark	South Africa		Q
4
5	Bets ter Horst	Netherlands
6

Source:^[6][7][8]

The final took place on 12 August 1934.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ruth Engelhard	Germany	11.6	WR
	Betty Taylor	Canada	11.7
	Violet Webb	Great Britain	12.0
4	Marjorie Clark	South Africa
5	Elsie Green	Great Britain
6	Roxy Atkins	Canada

Sources:^[6][9]

• Athletics at the Olympics of Grace – 80 metres hurdles