Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 3 (heats) August 4 (final)
Medalists
Babe Didrikson   United States   Evelyne Hall   United States   Marjorie Clark   South Africa

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place between August 3 and August 4 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Top three from each of the two heats qualified for the finals.

Heats

First heat

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Babe Didrikson	United States	11.8	=WR
2	Simone Schaller	United States	11.8	=WR
3	Marjorie Clark	South Africa	11.9
4	Betty Taylor	Canada	12.0
5	Michiko Nakanishi	Japan	DNF

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Evelyne Hall	United States	12.0
2	Violet Webb	Great Britain	12.1
3	Alda Wilson	Canada	12.1
4	Felicja Schabińska	Poland	12.8

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Babe Didrikson	United States	11.7	WR
02 !	Evelyne Hall	United States	11.7	WR
03 !	Marjorie Clark	South Africa	11.8
4	Simone Schaller	United States	11.8
5	Violet Webb	Great Britain	11.9
6	Alda Wilson	Canada	12.0

Key: WR = World record; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Women's 80 metre hurldes, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-05.