Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 yards

The women's 100 yards event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 19 and 22 July at the Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marlene Mathews-Willard Australia	Heather Young England	Madeleine Weston England

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the semifinals.^[2]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.3, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3, Heat 4: ? m/s, Heat 5: ?, Heat 6: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Betty Cuthbert	Australia	10.8	Q
2	1	Dorothy Hyman	England	11.0	Q
3	1	Eleanor Haslam	Canada	11.1
4	1		Wales	11.4
5	1	Alix Jamieson	Scotland	11.5
6	1		Nigeria	11.5
1	2	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	10.9	Q
2	2	Margaret Stuart	New Zealand	11.3	Q
3	2	Mary Symon	Scotland	11.5
4	2		Canada	11.5
5	2	Claudette Masdammer	British Guiana	11.6
1	3	June Paul	England	10.7	Q, =GR
2	3	Kay Johnson	Australia	11.1	Q
3	3	Marise Chamberlain	New Zealand	11.4
4	3	Jean Whitehead	Wales	11.4
5	3		Scotland	11.4
6	3		Ghana	11.7
1	4	Heather Young	England	10.7	Q, =GR
2	4		South Africa	11.0	Q
3	4	Maureen Rever	Canada	11.2
4	4		India	12.0
	4		Sierra Leone	DQ
1	5	Madeleine Weston	England	11.0	Q
2	5		South Africa	11.0	Q
3	5		Nigeria	11.4
4	5		Wales	11.4
5	5		Sierra Leone	11.6
1	6	Wendy Hayes	Australia	11.0	Q
2	6		Scotland	11.4	Q
3	6	Maeve Kyle	Northern Ireland	11.4
4	6	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand	11.4
5	6		Wales	11.9

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.^[2]

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0, Heat 2: +2.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Madeleine Weston	England	10.9	Q
2	1	Elizabeth Cuthbert	Australia	10.9	Q
3	1	June Paul	England	10.9	Q
4	1	Wendy Hayes	Australia	10.9
5	1		South Africa	10.9
6	1	Margaret Stuart	New Zealand	11.1
1	2	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	10.7	Q
2	2	Heather Young	England	10.9	Q
3	2		South Africa	11.0	Q
4	2	Dorothy Hyman	England	11.1
5	2		Scotland	11.3
6	2	Kay Johnson	Australia	11.6

Wind: +0.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	10.70	GR
	2	Heather Young	England	10.73
	3	Madeleine Weston	England	10.81
4	4	Elizabeth Cuthbert	Australia	10.84
5	5	June Paul	England	10.8
6	6		South Africa	11.0

^ "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Many splendid performances in track and field events". The Manchester Guardian. 21 July 1958. p. 8. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
^ "Potgieter wins hurdles event with world's record". The Manchester Guardian. 23 July 1958. p. 4. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	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
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