Athletics at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 yards

Athletics at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	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
v t e

The women's 100 yards event at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 1 July at the Empire Stadium in Vancouver, Canada.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson  Australia	Winsome Cripps  Australia	Edna Maskell  Northern Rhodesia

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.^[2][3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Marjorie Jackson-Nelson	Australia	10.9	Q
2	1	Anne Pashley	England	10.9	Q
3	1	Geraldine Bemister	Canada	11.0	Q
4	1	Shirley Burgess	England	11.1
5	1	Patricia Devine	Scotland	11.1
6	1	Nancy Fogarty	Australia	11.2
7	1	Dorothy Kozak	Canada	11.2
8	1	Noeline Swinton	New Zealand	11.5
1	2	Winsome Cripps	Australia	10.9	Q
2	2	Edna Maskell	Northern Rhodesia	11.0	Q
3	2	Heather Armitage	England	11.1	Q
4	2	Shirley Hampton	England	11.2
5	2	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	11.3
6	2	Annabelle Murray	Canada	11.4
7	2	Margery Squires	Canada	11.5
	?	Marlene Mathews-Willard	Australia	DNF

^[2][3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marjorie Jackson-Nelson	Australia	10.7w
	Winsome Cripps	Australia	10.8w
	Edna Maskell	Northern Rhodesia	10.8w
4	Anne Pashley	England	10.9w
5	Geraldine Bemister	Canada	10.9w
6	Heather Armitage	England	11.0w