Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km 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 hurdles event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 10 and 11 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lorna Boothe  England	Shirley Strong  England	Sharon Colyear  England

Held on 10 August

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Sharon Colyear	England	13.34	Q
2	2	Shirley Strong	England	13.41	Q
3	1	Lorna Boothe	England	13.49	Q
4	1	Sharon Lane	Canada	13.89	Q
5	2	Diane Jones-Konihowski	Canada	14.00	Q
6	1	Elaine Davidson	Scotland	14.03	Q
7	1	Gail Wooten	New Zealand	14.14	q
8	2	June Caddle	Barbados	14.22	q
9	2	Roxanne Gelle	Australia	14.23
10	2	Marina Chin Leng Sim	Malaysia	14.77
11	1	Vicky Hancox	Northern Ireland	15.12
12	2	Teresa David	Mauritius	16.13
	1	Bernadine Lewis	Grenada	DNS
	1	Glynis Saunders	Australia	DNS

Held on 11 August

Wind: +3.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lorna Boothe	England	12.98
	Shirley Strong	England	13.08
	Sharon Colyear	England	13.17
4	Elaine Davidson	Scotland	13.76
5	Gail Wooten	New Zealand	13.77
6	Sharon Lane	Canada	13.88
7	Diane Jones-Konihowski	Canada	14.11
8	June Caddle	Barbados	14.13

• Heats results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results