Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's 440 yards

Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men	women
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 miles 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
Decathlon	men
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The women's 440 yards event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 8 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the first and last time that this imperial distance was contested at the Games for women later replaced by the 400 metres.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Judy Pollock  Australia	Deidre Watkinson  England	Una Morris  Jamaica

Results[]

Heats[]

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Lillian Board	England	54.7	Q
2	1		Canada	54.7	Q
3	1	Rosemary Stirling	Scotland	55.0	q
4	1		Wales	55.4	q
	1		Trinidad and Tobago	DNF
	1	Ana Ramacake	Fiji	DNS
1	2	Deidre Watkinson	England	55.1	Q
2	2		Canada	56.6	Q
3	2		Wales	56.8
4	2		Scotland	57.0
5	2	Pam Piercy	England	57.2
6	2		Nigeria	1:00.0
1	3	Judy Pollock	Australia	52.91	Q
2	3	Una Morris	Jamaica	54.7	Q
3	3	Joy Grieveson	England	55.6
4	3	Mary Rajamani	Malaysia	57.8
5	3		Trinidad and Tobago	57.9
6	3		Antigua and Barbuda	1:03.8

Final[]

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Judy Pollock	Australia	53.0
	Deidre Watkinson	England	54.1
	Una Morris	Jamaica	54.2
4	Rosemary Stirling	Scotland	54.4
5	Lillian Board	England	54.7
6		Canada	55.0
7		Canada	55.3
8		Wales	55.5

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