Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	17 and 18 July 1970
Medalists
Raelene Boyle    Australia   Alice Annum    Ghana   Marion Hoffman    Australia

Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 100 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 17 and 18 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1] It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 100 yards event.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Raelene Boyle  Australia	Alice Annum  Ghana	Marion Hoffman  Australia

Held on 17 July

The first 3 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Heat 1: +2.2 m/s, Heat 2: +5.7 m/s, Heat 3: +4.9 m/s, Heat 4: +4.3 m/s, Heat 5: +5.4 m/s

Heats results

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jenny Lamy	Australia	11.81	Q
2	1	Judith Ayaa	Uganda	11.92	Q
3	1	Adlin Mair-Clarke	Jamaica	11.96	Q
4	1	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	12.09
5	1	Pat Shiels	Wales	12.30
6	1	Evelyn Urhobo	Nigeria	12.37
7	1	Georgiana Freeman	Gambia	13.11
1	2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.41	Q
2	2	Helen Golden	Scotland	11.47	Q
3	2	Della James	England	11.65	Q
4	2	Emilie Edet	Nigeria	11.81
5	2	Hillary Davies	Wales	12.05
6	2	Linda Teskey	Northern Ireland	12.20
7	2	Kahanda Badra	Ceylon	12.35
1	3	Val Peat	England	11.37	Q
2	3	Patty Loverock	Canada	11.64	Q
3	3	Elizabeth Sutherland	Scotland	11.65	Q
4	3	Joan Porter	Trinidad and Tobago	12.03
5	3	Jane Chikambwe	Zambia	12.33
6	3	Sharon Ochello	Gibraltar	12.92
	3	Adrienne Smyth	Northern Ireland	DNS
1	4	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.28	Q
2	4	Anita Neil	England	11.51	Q
3	4	Marion Hoffman	Australia	11.52	Q
4	4	Nooline McGarvey	Northern Ireland	11.88
5	4	Joslyn Holder	Trinidad and Tobago	12.12
6	4	Claudette Powell	Bahamas	12.21
7	4	Michelle Smith	Wales	12.34
1	5	Stephanie Berto	Canada	11.61	Q
2	5	Penny Hunt	New Zealand	11.77	Q
3	5	Carmen Smith-Brown	Jamaica	12.01	Q
4	5	Patricia Pennycook	Scotland	12.03
5	5	Olajumoke Bodunrin	Nigeria	12.07
6	5	Princess Small	Gambia	12.47
7	5	Zetha Cofie	Ghana	12.67

Held on 18 July

The first 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Heat 1: +4.1 m/s, Heat 2: +4.1 m/s

Final results

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.29	Q
2	1	Marion Hoffman	Australia	11.48	Q
3	1	Elizabeth Sutherland	Scotland	11.55	Q
4	1	Anita Neil	England	11.64	Q
5	1	Jenny Lamy	Australia	11.75
6	1	Patty Loverock	Canada	11.84
7	1	Penny Hunt	New Zealand	11.92
8	1	Carmen Smith-Brown	Jamaica	12.06
1	2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.37	Q
2	2	Val Peat	England	11.43	Q
3	2	Helen Golden	Scotland	11.54	Q
4	2	Stephanie Berto	Canada	11.64	Q
5	2	Della James	England	11.73
6	2	Judith Ayaa	Uganda	11.93
7	2	Adlin Mair-Clarke	Jamaica	11.99

Held on 18 July

+5.3 m/s

Final results

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Raelene Boyle	Australia	11.26
	6	Alice Annum	Ghana	11.32
	1	Marion Hoffman	Australia	11.36
4	7	Val Peat	England	11.38
5	5	Helen Golden	Scotland	11.52
6	3	Anita Neil	England	11.54
7	8	Stephanie Berto	Canada	11.63
8	2	Elizabeth Sutherland	Scotland	11.72

• Heats results (p28)
• Semifinals & Final results (p9)
• Australian results