Athletics_at_the_1952_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_100_metres

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Women's 100 metres; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 21 (round one and quarterfinals); July 22 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	56
Medalists
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Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

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The women's 100 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 21 and July 22. The final was won by Australian Marjorie Jackson, who equalled the world record set in 1936 by Helen Stephens.^[1]

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Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Winsome Cripps	Australia	12.0	Q
2	Tzvetana Berkovska	Bulgaria	12.2	Q
3	Lilian Heinz	Argentina	12.7
4	Ulla Pokki	Finland	12.7
5	Nilima Ghose	India	13.6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Mae Faggs	United States	12.1	Q
2	Liliana Tagliaferri	Italy	12.6	Q
3	Aranka Szabó-Bartha	Hungary	12.7
4	Elżbieta Bocian	Poland	12.9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	12.0	Q
2	Irina Turova	Soviet Union	12.0	Q
3	Vittoria Cesarini	Italy	12.3
4	Tang Pai Wah	Singapore	13.8

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Helga Klein	Germany	12.1	Q
2	Heather Armitage	Great Britain	12.3	Q
3	Lilián Buglia	Argentina	12.3
4	Alexandra Sicoe	Romania	12.8
5	Leena Sipilä	Finland	13.4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Maria Sander	Germany	12.2	Q
2	Anna-Lisa Augustsson	Sweden	12.4	Q
3	Rosella Thorne	Canada	12.5
4	Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely	Hungary	12.6
5	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	12.6

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	12.2	Q
2	Janet Moreau	United States	12.5	Q
3	Neeltje Büch	Netherlands	12.6
4	Jorun Askersrud Tangen	Norway	13.0
5	Sonja Prétôt	Switzerland	14.7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Catherine Hardy	United States	11.9	Q
2	June Foulds	Great Britain	12.1	Q
3	Alberte de Campou	France	12.2
4	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	12.5
5	Ana María Fontán	Argentina	12.9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.6	Q
2	Yvette Monginou	France	12.3	Q
3	Luella Law	Canada	12.4
4	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	12.5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Australia	12.0	Q
2	Vera Kalashnikova	Soviet Union	12.2	Q
3	Quita Shivas	Great Britain	12.5
4	Emma Konrad	Romania	13.0
5	Mary D'Souza	India	13.1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Daphne Hasenjager	South Africa	11.9	Q
2	Eleanor McKenzie	Canada	12.2	Q
3	Nell Sjöström	Sweden	12.4
4	Ibolya Tilkovszky	Hungary	12.4
5	Phyllis Jones	Bermuda	13.3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Francina Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.9	Q
2	Marga Petersen	Germany	12.0	Q
3	Denise Laborie	France	12.6
4	Graviola Ewing	Guatemala	13.0

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Edna Maskell	South Africa	11.9	Q
2	Nadezhda Khnykina	Soviet Union	12.0	Q
3	Hyacinth Walters	Jamaica	12.4
4	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	12.7
5	Agneta Hannerz	Sweden	12.8

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	11.5	Q, =WR
2	Winsome Cripps	Australia	12.0	Q
3	Mae Faggs	United States	12.1	Q
4	Nadezhda Khnykina	Soviet Union	12.1
5	Marga Petersen	Germany	12.1
—	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	DNS