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

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
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
	← 1936 1952 →

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]

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
3	Birthe Nielsen	Denmark	12.5
5	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain
6	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands

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

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 100 metres". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2017.

Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.