The women's 80 metres hurdles hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1.
Results
Heats
The top two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat 1 Wind: +0.4 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Irina Press 10.91 OR 2 Carole Quinton 11.07 3 Draga Stamejčič 11.47 4 Ulla-Britt Wieslander 11.60 5 Irene Robertson 11.69
Heat 2 Wind: -0.5 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Mary Bignal 11.40 2 Norma Thrower 11.54 3 Snezhana Kerkova 11.73 4 Wanda dos Santos 11.84 5 Bertha Díaz 11.84
Heat 3 Wind: -0.4 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Rimma Koshelyova 11.26 2 Denise Laborie-Guénard 11.37 3 Alena Stolzová 11.59 4 Jo Ann Terry-Grissom 11.59 Mária Bácskai
Heat 4 Wind: -0.5 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Gisela Birkemeyer 11.31 2 Barbara Sosgórnik 11.56 3 Pat Nutting 11.65 4 Sally McCallum 11.90 5 Friedl Murauer 12.08
Heat 5 Wind: -0.5 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Karin Balzer 11.40 2 Teresa Ciepły 11.46 3 Simone Brièrre 11.75 4 Gloria Cooke-Wigney 11.89
Heat 6 Wind: -0.4 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Zenta Gastl-Kopp 11.10 2 Galina Bystrova 11.26 3 Letizia Bertoni 11.54 4 Shirley Crowder 12.43 5 Chi Cheng 12.71
Semifinal The top three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat 1 Wind: -0.9 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Galina Bystrova 11.16 2 Mary Bignal 11.16 3 Rimma Koshelyova 11.22 4 Karin Balzer 11.27 5 Norma Thrower 11.44 6 Barbara Sosgórnik 11.46
Heat 2 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Irina Press 10.77 OR 2 Gisela Birkemeyer 11.01 3 Carole Quinton 11.07 4 Zenta Gastl-Kopp 11.09 5 Teresa Ciepły 11.40 6 Denise Laborie-Guénard 11.51
Final Wind: 0.0 m/s.
Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes Irina Press 10.93 Carole Quinton 10.99 Gisela Birkemeyer 11.13 4 Mary Bignal 11.22 5 Galina Bystrova 11.26 6 Rimma Koshelyova 11.28
Key: OR = Olympic record
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