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

Results

Heats

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	Bronwen Jones	Wales	11.4
5	1	Alix Jamieson	Scotland	11.5
6	1	Folashade Payne	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	Freyda Berman	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	Doris Tyndall	Scotland	11.4
6	3	Helen Quartey-Papafio	Ghana	11.7
1	4	Heather Young	England	10.7	Q, =GR
2	4	Magdalena Myburgh	South Africa	11.0	Q
3	4	Maureen Rever	Canada	11.2
4	4	Stephanie D'Souza	India	12.0
	4	Elizabeth Bright	Sierra Leone	DQ
1	5	Madeleine Weston	England	11.0	Q
2	5	Edith Shaw	South Africa	11.0	Q
3	5	Esther Ogbeni	Nigeria	11.4
4	5	Gwyneth Lewis	Wales	11.4
5	5	Daisy Williams	Sierra Leone	11.6
1	6	Wendy Hayes	Australia	11.0	Q
2	6	Moira Campbell	Scotland	11.4	Q
3	6	Maeve Kyle	Northern Ireland	11.4
4	6	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand	11.4
5	6	Beryl Turner	Wales	11.9

Semifinals

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	Magdalena Myburgh	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	Edith Shaw	South Africa	11.0	Q
4	2	Dorothy Hyman	England	11.1
5	2	Moira Campbell	Scotland	11.3
6	2	Kay Johnson	Australia	11.6

Final

^[3]

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	Edith Shaw	South Africa	11.0

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