Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	22 and 23 July 1970
Medalists
Pam Kilborn    Australia   Maureen Caird    Australia   Christine Bell    England

Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 and 23 July 1970.^[1] It was the first time that this distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 80 metres hurdles.

The winning margin was 0.46 seconds which, as of 2024, remains the only time the women's 100 metres with hurdles was won by more than 0.4 seconds at these games.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pam Kilborn  Australia	Maureen Caird  Australia	Christine Bell  England

The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Heat 1: -1.2 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s

Heats results

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pam Kilborn	Australia	13.48	Q
2	1	Mary Peters	Northern Ireland	14.14	Q
3	1	Susan Scott	England	14.31	Q
4	1	Elizabeth Damman	Canada	14.60	Q
5	1	Lindy Carruthers	Scotland	14.62
6	1	Wendy Taylor	Canada	15.14
7	1	Emille Edet	Nigeria	15.48
1	2	Maureen Caird	Australia	13.79	Q
2	2	Penny McCallum	Australia	13.90	Q
3	2	Christine Bell	England	13.90	Q
4	2	Carmen Smith-Brown	Jamaica	14.52	Q
5	2	Jenny Meldrum	Canada	14.75
	2	Barbara Corbett	England	DNF

0.3 m/s

Final results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pam Kilborn	Australia	13.27
	Maureen Caird	Australia	13.73
	Christine Bell	England	13.82
4	Penny McCallum	Australia	13.82
5	Mary Peters	Northern Ireland	13.88
6	Susan Scott	England	14.05
7	Carmen Smith-Brown	Jamaica	14.44
8	Elizabeth Damman	Canada	14.78

• Heats results
• Australian results