1945 WAAA Championships

{{Short description|British athletics event}}

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{{Infobox Athletics Championships

|Name=1945 WAAA Championships

|Host city=Tooting Bec, London

|Dates=18 August

|Stadium=Tooting Bec Athletics Track

|Stadium image=

|Level=Senior

|Type=Outdoor

|Events=

|Previous=1939

|Next=1946

|Games=WAAA Championships

}}

The 1945 WAAA Championships were the national track and field championships for women in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=18 December 2024 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=18 December 2024 }}

The event was held at Tooting Bec Athletics Track in Tooting Bec, London, on 18 August 1945. The Championships returned after a five-year absence due to World War II.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19450820/095/0004 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=20 August 1945 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000671/19450820/088/0004 |title=Women's Championships |work=Evening Despatch |date=20 August 1945 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2024 }}

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Results

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width=100|Event

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze

100 metres

| Winifred Jordan

12.8

| Lillian Chalmers

inches

| Irene Stretton

200 metres

|Winifred Jordan

26.7

| Irene Stretton

inches

| Joan Shepherd

440 yards

| Winifred Jordan

61.8

| Lillian Chalmers

| Irene Stretton
880 yards

| Phyllis Richards

2:26.7

| Pat Sandall

| Joyce Heath
1 mile

|Pat Sandall

5:40.2

|Phyllis Richards

|Helen Wright
80 metres hurdles

| Zoe Hancock

13.6

| E. Lewis

| J. R. Jones
High jump

| Dora Gardner

1.524

| Dorothy Tyler

1.524

| Doris Endruweit

1.473
Long jump

| Kathleen Duffy

4.76

| Vedder Schenck

4.66

| Doreen Clutton

4.63
Discus throw

| Kathleen Dyer (Tilley)

30.38

|Muriel Smith

30.12

| Margaret Lucas

27.24
Javelin

| Gladys Clarke

31.72

| Katharine Connal

30.10

| M. Bruce

24.10
1 mile walk

| Joan Riddington

8:42.8

| Doris Hart

| Joyce Heath

References