Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles

Women's 80 metres hurdles at the Games of the XI Olympiad
From left Ondina Valla, Doris Eckert, Anni Steuer, Kitty ter Braake and Claudia Testoni
Dates	August 5 (Heats & semifinals) August 6 (Final)
Medalists
Ondina Valla  Italy Anni Steuer  Germany Betty Taylor  Canada

Athletics at the 1936 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 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place August 5 and August 6. The final was won by Italian Ondina Valla.

Results

Semifinals

   Qualified

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ondina Valla	Italy	11.6	=WR
2	Betty Taylor	Canada	11.7
3	Anni Steuer	Germany	11.7
4	Anne Vrana-O'Brien	United States	11.8
5	Violet Webb	Great Britain	11.8
6	Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou	Greece

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	11.8
2	Doris Eckert	Germany	11.8
3	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.8
4	Simone Schaller	United States
5	Kathleen Tiffen	Great Britain
6	Tidye Pickett	United States

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Time (automatic)	Notes
	Ondina Valla	Italy	11.7	11.748	=OR
	Anni Steuer	Germany	11.7	11.809	=OR
	Betty Taylor	Canada	11.7	11.811	=OR
4	Claudia Testoni	Italy	11.7	11.818	=OR
5	Kitty ter Braake	Netherlands	11.8	11.832
6	Doris Eckert	Germany	12.0	12.190

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Women's 80 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-22.