Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 yards

Women's 100 yards
Venue	Perry Lakes Stadium, Floreat, Western Australia
Date	24 November 1962 (1962-11-24) (round 1 and semis) 26 November 1962 (1962-11-26) (final)
Competitors	23 from 10 nations
Winning time	11.2 s
Medalists
Dorothy Hyman   England   Doreen Porter   New Zealand   Brenda Cox   Australia

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Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd		men		women
220 yd		men		women
440 yd		men
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
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

The women's 100 yards at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 24 November and Monday 26 November 1962.

23 runners competed in four heats in the first round, with the top three runners from each heat qualifying for the semifinals. There were two semifinals, and only the top three from each heat advanced to the final.

The event was won by England's Dorothy Hyman ahead of Doreen Porter from New Zealand and Australian Brenda Cox who won bronze. Hyman won the final in a slow time of 11.2 seconds running into a headwind of 5.8  m/s. It was the first time since 1934 that this event was not won by an Australian.

Records

World record	Marlene Mathews (AUS)	10.3	Sydney, Australia	20 March 1958
Games record	Marlene Mathews (AUS)	10.6	Cardiff, Wales	22 July 1958
Commonwealth record		'

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Glenys Beasley	Australia	11.0	Q
2	Ann Packer	England	11.3	Q
3	Yvonne Breeden	Canada	11.4	Q
4	Carmen Williams	Jamaica	11.9
5	Janette Neil	Scotland	12.0
6	Grace Hogan	Ghana	12.5

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	England	11.0	Q
2	Brenda Cox	Australia	11.1	Q
3	Christiana Boateng	Ghana	11.2	Q
4	Molly Cowan	New Zealand	11.6
5	Joan Atkinson	Northern Ireland	11.6
6	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	11.7

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Betty Moore	England	11.0	Q
2	Betty Cuthbert	Australia	11.1	Q
3	Nola Bond	New Zealand	11.2	Q
4	Carmen Smith	Jamaica	11.4
5	Maca Vakalala	Fiji	11.6
6	Patricia Dalton	Rhodesia and Nyasaland	11.8

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	10.9	Q
2	Joyce Bennett	Australia	11.1	Q
3	Daphne Arden	England	11.1	Q
4	Rose Hart	Ghana	11.4
5	Ouida Walker	Jamaica	11.5

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	England	10.7	Q
2	Christiana Boateng	Ghana	10.9	Q
3	Daphne Arden	England	10.9	Q
4	Glenys Beasley	Australia	11.0
5	Betty Cuthbert	Australia	11.0
6	Nola Bond	New Zealand	11.2

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brenda Cox	Australia	10.9	Q
2	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	11.0	Q
3	Betty Moore	England	11.0	Q
4	Joyce Bennett	Australia	11.1
5	Ann Packer	England	11.2
6	Yvonne Breeden	Canada	11.5

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dorothy Hyman	England	11.2
	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	11.3
	Brenda Cox	Australia	11.4
4	Christiana Boateng	Ghana	11.6
5	Daphne Arden	England	11.6
6	Betty Moore	England	11.7
			Wind: +5.8 m/s