Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
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	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 23 and 24 July 1981.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Stephanie Hightower  United States	Mariya Kemenchezhiy  Soviet Union	Elżbieta Rabsztyn  Poland

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Wind:
Heat 1: +0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s, Heat 3: +0.4 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mariya Kemenchezhiy	Soviet Union	12.97	Q
2	2	Laurence Elloy	France	13.19	Q[3]
3	2	Benita Fitzgerald	United States	13.20	q
4	1	Natalya Petrova	Soviet Union	13.22	Q
5	3	Stephanie Hightower	United States	13.29	Q
6	1	Michèle Chardonnet	France	13.34	Q[3]
7	1	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.37	q
8	3	Doris Baum	West Germany	13.41	Q
9	3	Mihaela Pogăcean	Romania	13.45
10	1	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	13.62
11	3	Ildikó Baranyai	Hungary	13.70
12	2	Dagmar Schenten	West Germany	13.74
13	1	Ilona Dumitrascu	Romania	13.78
14	3	Juraciara da Silva	Brazil	13.79
15	1	Petra Prenner	Austria	13.98
16	2	Gabriella Pizzolato	Italy	14.03
17	3	Zhou Ying	China	14.25
18	2	Elida Aveillé	Cuba	14.31

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Wind: -0.6 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stephanie Hightower	United States	13.03
	Mariya Kemenchezhiy	Soviet Union	13.13
	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.31
4	Natalya Petrova	Soviet Union	13.33
5	Michèle Chardonnet	France	13.46
6	Benita Fitzgerald	United States	13.47
7	Laurence Elloy	France	13.54
8	Doris Baum	West Germany	13.81