The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is still in use in
Masters athletics in the Men's division over 70 years of age, and the Women's division over 40 years of age.[2]
Youth athletics
The distance, with different spacing between hurdles, is also in use in the 11- to 12-year-old division, previously called the "Midget" division.[3]
Mieke van der Merwe ran a 11.08 on the (75 meter Hurdles Girls u/12 event) in the 2024 South African School Athletics Championship held in Polokwane on 25 March 2024.
Last official world record: 10.2 seconds,
Vera Korsakova,
USSR, June 16, 1968
Maureen Caird's winning time of 10.39A at the
1968 Olympics is intrinsically better than the hand timed official record, but at the time,
IAAF did not have any rules in place to recognize
automatic times. When those rules were put in place in 1977, which recognized records set in the 1968 Olympics in many other events, the 80 metres hurdles had been retired for almost a decade.