80 metres hurdles

Masters athletics

Youth athletics

History

• First official time: 13.0 seconds, Ludmila Sychrová, 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 10.39A 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