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.^[1]

Masters athletics

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.^[2]

Youth athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is also in use in the 11- to 12-year-old division, previously called the "Midget" division.^[3]

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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1932 Los Angeles details	Babe Didrikson  United States	Evelyne Hall  United States	Marjorie Clark  South Africa
1936 Berlin details	Ondina Valla  Italy	Anni Steuer  Germany	Elizabeth Taylor  Canada
1948 London details	Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands	Maureen Gardner  Great Britain	Shirley Strickland  Australia
1952 Helsinki details	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	Maria Golubnichaya  Soviet Union	Maria Sander  Germany
1956 Melbourne details	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	Gisela Köhler  United Team of Germany	Norma Thrower  Australia
1960 Rome details	Irina Press  Soviet Union	Carole Quinton  Great Britain	Gisela Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany
1964 Tokyo details	Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany	Teresa Ciepły  Poland	Pam Kilborn  Australia
1968 Mexico City details	Maureen Caird  Australia	Pam Kilborn  Australia	Chi Cheng  Taiwan