1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres hurdles

1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
50 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men
50 m hurdles	men
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The women's 50 metres hurdles event at the 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 21 February.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Zofia Bielczyk  Poland	Mariya Kemenchezhi  Soviet Union	Tatyana Anisimova  Soviet Union

First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mariya Kemenchezhi	Soviet Union	6.83	Q, CR
2	1	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.85	Q
3	1	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	6.93	Q
3	1	Xénia Siska	Hungary	6.93	Q
3	2	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	6.93	Q
6	3	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	6.95	Q
7	3	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	6.96	Q
8	3	Edith Oker	West Germany	6.97	Q
9	3	Laurence Monclar	France	7.02	q
10	1	Michèle Chardonnet	France	7.03	q
11	2	Emilya Kunova	Bulgaria	7.05	Q
12	3	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	7.15	q
13	2	María José Martínez	Spain	7.19
14	1	Helle Sichlau	Denmark	7.29
15	1	Petra Prenner	Austria	7.35
16	2	Lisbeth Nissen Pedersen	Denmark	7.68
	2	Laurence Elloy	France	DNF
	3	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	DNS

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	6.83	Q, =CR
2	2	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	6.84	Q
3	2	Mariya Kemenchezhi	Soviet Union	6.86	Q
4	1	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	6.89	Q
4	1	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.89	Q
4	2	Xénia Siska	Hungary	6.89	Q
7	1	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	6.90
8	1	Michèle Chardonnet	France	6.98
9	2	Laurence Monclar	France	7.01
10	1	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	7.03
11	2	Emilya Kunova	Bulgaria	7.10
	2	Edith Oker	West Germany	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	6.74	=WR, CR
	Mariya Kemenchezhi	Soviet Union	6.80
	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	6.81
4	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	6.84
5	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.89
6	Xénia Siska	Hungary	7.02