World Record: 22.9s Wilma Rudolph, United States Corpus Christi, United States 9, July 196022.9s Margaret Burvill, Australia Perth, Australia 22 February 1964
Olympic Record: 23.2s Wilma Rudolph, United States Rome, Italy, 3 September 1060
First 4 from each Semi advanced Final. 14°C Humidity: 95%
Semi 1 Wind +0.91m/s
time
electr
1. Edith Marie Mcguire
United States
23.3s
23.37s
2. Irena Kirszenstein
Poland
23.6s
23.62s
3. Janet Mary Simpson
Great Britain
23.7s
23.75s
4. Daphne Arden
Great Britain
24.0s
24.01s
5. Margaret Ann Burvill
Australia
24.3s
6. Eva Lehocka
Czechoslovakia
24.5s
7. Joyce Elaine Bennett
Australia
24.7s
-. Miguelina Cobian
Cuba
DQ
Semi 2 Wind +3.24m/s
time
electr
1. Marilyn Mary Black
Australia
23.4s
23.42s
2. Ludmila Samotesova
Soviet Union
23.7s
23.74s
3. Una L. Morris
Jamaica
23.7s
23.77s
4. Barbara Sobotta
Poland
23.7s
23.78s
5. Dorothy Hyman
Great Britain
23.7s
23.78s
6. Doreen Helen Porter
Netherlands
24.0s
24.03s
7. Heilwig Jacob
Germany
24.1s
24.10s
8. Vivian Delores Brown
United States
24.3s
24.39s
The surprises of the preliminary rounds were the disqualification of
European Champion Jutta Heine for two false starts, and the elimina-
tion of Margaret Burvill (AUS) who had set an early season world
record of 22.9 over 220y. In the final, Black was off quickest in the out-
side lane, and used the more gently sloping curve to lead into the
straight from McGuire. The American quickly made up the small
deficit, and she moved away from the Australian to win clearly from
the 18 year-old Kirszenstein, who used her long stride to close to within
a metre of the American, overtaking Black in the last 20m.
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