Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	4 September 1972 & 8 September 1972
Competitors	25 from 15 nations
Winning time	12.59 WR
Medalists
Annelie Ehrhardt  East Germany Valeria Bufanu  Romania Karin Balzer  East Germany
← 1968 1976 →

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on the 4 & 8 of September. This was the first time this distance for women was held at the Olympics; the previous distance of 80 metres were discontinued after the 1968 Games. Pam Kilborn and Karin Balzer were back for their third Olympic games.^[1]

The top four runners in each heat advanced to the semifinal round.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time	Notes
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	3	12.70	OR
2	Pam Kilborn	Australia	1	12.93
3	Teresa Nowak	Poland	5	13.16
4	Esther Shakhamorov	Israel	2	13.17
5	Judy Vernon	Great Britain	6	13.37
6	Lucila Salao	Philippines	7	15.15
-	Edith Noeding	Peru	4	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	2	12.94
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	1	13.03
3	Margit Bach	West Germany	5	13.46
4	Lacey O’Neal	United States	3	13.78
5	Brenda Matthews	New Zealand	4	13.81
6	Penny Gillies	Australia	6	13.82

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	1	13.29
2	Annerose Krumpholz	East Germany	3	13.31
3	Mamie Rallins	United States	4	13.51
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	2	13.61
5	Maureen Caird	Australia	6	13.63
6	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	5	15.89
-	Mary Peters	Great Britain	7	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time
1	Karin Balzer	East Germany	7	13.10
2	Patty Johnson	United States	3	13.28
3	Jacqueline André	France	2	13.33
4	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	6	13.50
5	Ann Wilson	Great Britain	1	13.53
6	Gunhild Olsson	Sweden	5	14.37
7	Emilie Edet	Nigeria	4	14.67

Top four in each heat advanced to the final round.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	1	12.84
2	Pam Kilborn	Australia	8	12.95
3	Karin Balzer	East Germany	6	12.97
4	Teresa Nowak	Poland	4	13.10
5	Patty Johnson	United States	5	13.26
6	Margit Bach	West Germany	3	13.31
7	Mamie Rallins	United States	2	13.76
-	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	7	DNF

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	2	12.73
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	3	12.91
3	Annerose Krumpholz	East Germany	7	13.24
4	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	8	13.24
5	Jacqueline André	France	5	13.30
6	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	6	13.33
7	Lacey O’Neal	United States	1	13.89
-	Esther Shakhamorov	Israel	4	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Lane	Time	Notes
	Annelie Ehrhardt	East Germany	6	12.59	WR
	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	7	12.84
	Karin Balzer	East Germany	5	12.90
4	Pam Kilborn	Australia	3	12.98
5	Teresa Nowak	Poland	1	13.17
6	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	8	13.18
7	Annerose Krumpholz	East Germany	2	13.27
8	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	4	13.44

Key: WR = world record; OR = Olympic record; DNS = did not start; DNF = did not finish