80 metres hurdles is a distance in

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ran by women until 1972 in international competitions. Since the

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, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.

Masters athletics

The distance, with different spacing between hurdles is still in use in

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in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.

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.

History

*First official time: 13.0 seconds, Ludmila Sychrová,

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, 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,

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, AUS, July 24, 1952 *Last official world record: 10.2 seconds, Vera Korsakova,

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, June 16, 1968 *

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'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

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