100 Metres Hurdles - Milestones

Milestones

100 m hurdles:

• First official time registered with hurdles of reduced height (76.2 cm): Pamela Kilborn, AUS, November 26, 1961
• First official time with hurdles of standard height (83.8 cm): 15.1 seconds, Connie Pettersson, USA, May 28, 1966
• First official world record: 13.3 seconds, Karin Balzer, GDR, June 20, 1969
• First runner under 13 seconds: 12.9 seconds, Karin Balzer, GDR, September 5, 1969
• First runner under 12.5 seconds:
  • 12.3 seconds, Annelie Ehrhardt GDR, July 20, 1973 (last hand timed world record; electronically timed at 12.68 seconds)
  • 12.48 seconds, Grażyna Rabsztyn, POL, June 10, 1978
• First runner under 12.3 seconds: 12.29 seconds, Yordanka Donkova BUL, August 17, 1986