Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on the 4 & 8 of September. This was the first time this distance for women were help at the Olympics the previous distance of 80 metres were discontinued after the 1968 Games. If the Olympics were held two years earlier in 1970 the hands on favorite would have been Cheng Chi of the Republic of China who set several world records in that year. No
1980 Summer Olympics 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia. The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe, and remain the only Summer Olympics held there, as well as the first Olympic Games to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country. They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country, and the only Summer Games to be held in such a country until 2008 in Beijing, China. These were