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Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

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The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 29 and August 30.[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Carolyn Schuler
  United States
Silver Marianne Heemskerk
  Netherlands
Bronze Jan Andrew
  Australia

Results

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Heats

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Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Carolyn Schuler   United States 1:09.8
2 Jan Andrew   Australia 1:10.3
3 Valentina Poznyak   Soviet Union 1:13.2
4 Jean Oldroyd   Great Britain 1:14.2
5 Silvia Belmar   Mexico 1:16.5
6 Hannelore Janele   Austria 1:18.4
Judith McHale   Canada DNS

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Sheila Watt   Great Britain 1:12.3
2 Zinaida Belovetskaya   Soviet Union 1:12.6
3 Kristina Larsson   Sweden 1:13.0
4 Anna Beneck   Italy 1:18.4
5 Hillary Wilson   Rhodesia 1:21.4
Dawn Fraser   Australia DNS
Gertrudes Lozada   Philippines DNS

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Carolyn Wood   United States 1:11.1
2 Atie Voorbij   Netherlands 1:12.4
3 Heidi Eisenschmidt   United Team of Germany 1:14.6
4 Karin Larsson   Sweden 1:15.0
5 Eulalia Martínez   Mexico 1:17.9
6 Márta Egerváry   Hungary 1:19.4
7 Colette Libourel   France 1:20.4
 
Heemskerk and Fuhrmann after heat 4

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Marianne Heemskerk   Netherlands 1:11.0
2 Bärbel Fuhrmann   United Team of Germany 1:13.2
3 Margaret Iwasaki   Canada 1:14.2
4 Shizue Miyabe   Japan 1:15.8
5 Sandra von Giese   Philippines 1:16.3
6 Annie Caron   France 1:17.1
7 Anna Cechi   Italy 1:19.5

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Carolyn Schuler   United States 1:09.5 OR
  Marianne Heemskerk   Netherlands 1:10.4
  Jan Andrew   Australia 1:12.2
4 Sheila Watt   Great Britain 1:13.3
5 Atie Voorbij   Netherlands 1:13.3
6 Zinaida Belovetskaya   Soviet Union 1:13.3
7 Kristina Larsson   Sweden 1:13.6
Carolyn Wood   United States DNF

Wood was in second place after 70 metres, but swallowed too much water, became confused, and stopped swimming.[2]

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book To The Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 443. ISBN 0140066322.
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