Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Women's 400 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 1982 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		women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 and 7 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.^[1] It was the first time that women competed in this event at the Commonwealth Games.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Debbie Flintoff  Australia	Ruth Kyalisima  Uganda	Yvette Wray  England

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Debbie Flintoff	Australia	57.44	Q, GR
2	1	Ruth Kyalisima	Uganda	58.22	Q
3	2	Lyn Foreman	Australia	58.69	Q
4	1	Yvette Wray	England	59.00	Q
5	2	Andrea Page	Canada	59.22	Q
6	1	Margaret Southerden	Scotland	59.48	Q
7	1	Gwen Wall	Canada	59.92	q
7	2	Sue Morley	England	59.92	Q
9	2	Sandra Farmer	Jamaica	1:00.06	Q
10	1	Terry Genge	New Zealand	1:00.18
11	1	Diane Fryar	Wales	1:00.50
12	2	Janine Robson	New Zealand	1:01.17
13	2	Dionne Wright	Canada	1:01.19
14	2	Sarah Owen	Wales	1:02.84
	1	June Caddle	Barbados	DNF
	1	Verona Elder	England	DNF
	2	Rose Tata-Muya	Kenya	DNF

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Debbie Flintoff	Australia	55.89	GR
	8	Ruth Kyalisima	Uganda	57.10
	2	Yvette Wray	England	57.17
4	3	Sue Morley	England	57.57
5	6	Lyn Foreman	Australia	57.62
6	1	Andrea Page	Canada	57.70
7	9	Margaret Southerden	Scotland	58.36
8	7	Gwen Wall	Canada	58.49
9	4	Sandra Farmer	Jamaica	59.07

• Heats results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Final results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Heats results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine