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Athletics discipline
80 metres hurdles
is a distance in
hurdling
run by women until 1972 in international competitions.
Since the
1972 Summer Olympics
, the event has been permanently replaced by the
100 metre hurdles
.
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Masters athletics
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The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is still in use in
Masters athletics
in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.
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Youth athletics
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The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is also in use in the 11- to 12-year-old division, previously called the "Midget" division.
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Mieke van der Merwe ran a 11.08 on the (75 meter Hurdles Girls u/12 event) in the 2024 South African School Athletics Championship held in Polokwane on 25 March 2024.
History
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- First official time: 13.0 seconds,
Ludmila Sychrova
,
Czechoslovakia
, July 6, 1926
- First official world record: 12.8 seconds,
Eva von Bredow
, Germany, June 14, 1927
- First runner under 12 seconds: 11.8 seconds,
Babe Didrikson
, United States, August 3, 1932
- First runner under 11 seconds: 10.9 seconds,
Shirley Strickland
,
AUS
, July 24, 1952
- Last official world record: 10.2 seconds,
Vera Korsakova
,
USSR
, June 16, 1968
- Maureen Caird
's winning time of 10.39
A
at the
1968 Olympics
is intrinsically better than the hand timed official record, but at the time,
IAAF
did not have any rules in place to recognize
automatic times
. When those rules were put in place in 1977, which recognized records set in the 1968 Olympics in many other events, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade.
Olympic medalists
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See also
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References
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