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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Track & Field > Women's Olympic Track & Field

100 meters

Year  Time  
1928 Betty Robinson, USA 12.2   WR
1932 Stella Walsh, POL* 11.9   WR
1936 Helen Stephens, USA 11.5w  
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen, NED 11.9    
1952 Marjorie Jackson, AUS 11.5   WR
1956 Betty Cuthbert, AUS 11.5    
1960 Wilma Rudolph, USA 11.0w 
1964 Wyomia Tyus, USA 11.4   
1968 Wyomia Tyus, USA 11.08  WR
1972 Renate Stecher, E. Ger 11.07   
1976 Annegret Richter, W. Ger 11.08   
1980 Lyudmila Kondratyeva, USSR 11.06  
1984 Evelyn Ashford, USA 10.97 OR
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner, USA 10.54w 
1992 Gail Devers, USA 10.82 OR
1996Gail Devers, USA10.94 
2000Marion Jones, USA10.75 
2004Yuliya Nesterenko, BLR10.93 
2008Shelly-Ann Fraser, JAM10.78 
2012Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, JAM10.75 

*An autopsy performed after Walsh's death in 1980 revealed that she was a man.
windicates wind-aided.

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