Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 28 and 29.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldSandy Neilson
 United States
SilverShirley Babashoff
 United States
BronzeShane Gould
 Australia

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Gabriele Wetzko East Germany1:00.40Q
2Tatyana Zolotnitskaya Soviet Union1:01.24 Q
3Claude Mandonnaud France1:01.34Q
4Guylaine Berger France1:01.54
5Judit Turóczy Hungary1:01.57
6Sharon Booth Australia1:02.07
7Kirsten Strange-Campbell Denmark1:03.83
8Susana Saxlund Uruguay1:04.91

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Enith Brigitha Netherlands1:00.02Q
2Anke Rijnders Netherlands1:00.76 Q
3Judy Wright Canada1:01.97
4Chantal Schertz France1:02.82
5Edit Kovács Hungary1:03.00
6Lucy Burle Brazil1:03.12
7Marcia Arriaga Mexico1:03.66
8Ileana Morales Venezuela1:04.13

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Magdolna Patóh Hungary59.47Q, OR
2Sandy Neilson United States59.51 Q
3Hansje Bunschoten West Germany1:00.82Q
4Eva Andersson Sweden1:01.88
5Susan Edmondson Great Britain1:02.29
6Françoise Monod Switzerland1:02.43
7Heather Coombridge New Zealand1:02.95
8Hsu Yue-yun Chinese Taipei1:04.77

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shirley Babashoff United States59.51Q
2Wendy Cook Canada1:01.20 Q
3Mary Beth Rondeau Canada1:01.46
4Leanne Francis Australia1:01.90
5Lesley Allardice Great Britain1:02.07
6Inger Andersson Sweden1:03.40
7Diane Walker Great Britain1:03.40

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jutta Weber West Germany59.72Q
2Jenny Kemp United States1:00.42 Q
3Sylvia Eichner East Germany1:00.64Q
4Angela Steinbach West Germany1:01.66
5Nadezhda Matyukhina Soviet Union1:02.14
6Margrit Thomet Switzerland1:02.33
7Laura Podestà Italy1:02.88

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shane Gould Australia59.44Q, OR
2Andrea Eife East Germany59.73 Q
3Heidi Reineck West Germany1:00.39Q
4Grethe Mathiesen Norway1:01.47
5Yelena Timoshenko Soviet Union1:01.68
6Shigeko Kawanishi Japan1:02.13
7Khriska Peycheva Bulgaria1:03.43
8Virginia Anchestegui Mexico1:04.99

Semifinals

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shirley Babashoff United States59.05Q, OR
2Magdolna Patóh Hungary59.64 Q
3Heidi Reineck West Germany59.66Q
4Andrea Eife East Germany59.71Q
5Jenny Kemp United States59.93
6Anke Rijnders Netherlands1:00.84
7Wendy Cook Canada1:01.26
8Claude Mandonnaud France1:01.88

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shane Gould Australia59.20Q
2Sandy Neilson United States59.41 Q
3Gabriele Wetzko East Germany59.46Q
4Enith Brigitha Netherlands59:75Q
5Jutta Weber West Germany59:90
6Sylvia Eichner East Germany1:00.73
7Hansje Bunschoten Netherlands1:00.79
8Tatyana Zolotnitskaya Soviet Union1:01.12

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Sandy Neilson United States58.59OR
Shirley Babashoff United States59.02
Shane Gould Australia59.06
4Gabriele Wetzko East Germany59.21
5Heidi Reineck West Germany59.73
6Andrea Eife East Germany59.91
7Magdolna Patóh Hungary1:00.02
8Enith Brigitha Netherlands1:00.09

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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