Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 18 and 19 October.[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

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Gold Jan Henne
  United States
Silver Susan Pedersen
  United States
Bronze Linda Gustavson
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Claude Mandonnaud   France 1:03.2
2 Elisabeth Berglund   Sweden 1:03.6
3 Jenny Steinbeck   Australia 1:03.8
4 Simone Hanner   France 1:03.8
5 Helen Elliott   Philippines 1:05.1
6 Patricia Olano   Colombia 1:05.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Alexandra Jackson   Great Britain 1:00.5
2 Nataliya Ustinova   Soviet Union 1:03.8
3 Miwako Kobayashi   Japan 1:04.2
4 Mariya Nikolova   Bulgaria 1:05.1
5 Shen Bao-ni   Taiwan 1:06.7
6 Ruth Apt   Uruguay 1:07.0

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Nel Bos   Netherlands 1:03.0
2 Mirjana Šegrt   Yugoslavia 1:03.3
3 Edit Kovács   Hungary 1:03.7
4 Catherine Grosjean   France 1:04.9
5 Fiona Kellock   Great Britain 1:05.8
6 Gillian Treers   Great Britain 1:06.3
7 Silvana Asturias   Guatemala 1:10.3

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Judit Turóczy   Hungary 1:02.1
2 Shigeko Kawanishi   Japan 1:02.6
3 Uta Schmuck   East Germany 1:03.1
4 Lotten Andersson   Sweden 1:04.5
5 Rosario de Vivanco   Peru 1:04.7
6 Ingeborg Renner   West Germany 1:05.9
7 Hedy García   Philippines 1:06.1
8 Lorna Blake   Puerto Rico 1:13.2

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Linda Gustavson   United States 1:00.8
2 Martina Grunert   East Germany 1:03.2
3 Maria Strumolo   Italy 1:04.1
4 Helmi Boxberger   West Germany 1:05.1
5 Vera Kock   Sweden 1:05.1
6 Vivian Ortíz   Mexico 1:06.9
7 Emilia Figueroa   Uruguay 1:07.2
8 Ana Marcial   Puerto Rico 1:10.1

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Sue Pedersen   United States 1:01.5
2 Roswitha Krause   East Germany 1:03.3
3 Lynne Watson   Australia 1:03.5
4 Magdolna Patóh   Hungary 1:03.8
5 Ana Boban   Yugoslavia 1:05.4
6 Toos Beumer   Netherlands 1:06.1
7 Lylian Castillo   Uruguay 1:08.3
8 Rosa Hasbún   El Salvador 1:10.0

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Marion Lay   Canada 1:00.6
2 Lidiya Hrebets   Soviet Union 1:03.3
3 Oľga Kozičová   Czechoslovakia 1:03.3
4 Zoya Dus   Soviet Union 1:04.2
5 Carmen Ferracuti   El Salvador 1:08.5
6 Nguyễn Minh Tam   Vietnam 1:09.5

Heat 8

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jan Henne   United States 1:00.1
2 Lyn Bell   Australia 1:01.9
3 Oei Liana   Taiwan 1:03.0
4 Heidi Reineck   West Germany 1:04.2
5 Marcia Arriaga   Mexico 1:05.4
6 Mirjam van Hemert   Netherlands 1:06.1
7 Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir   Iceland 1:06.3
8 Kristina Moir   Puerto Rico 1:07.9

Semifinals

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marion Lay   Canada 1:00.7 Q
2 Mirjana Segtr   Yugoslavia 1:01.9 Q
3 Martina Grunert   East Germany 1:02.2 Q
4 Lynette Bell   Australia 1:02.4
5 Janet Steinbeck   Australia 1:02.6
6 Liana Oei   Taiwan 1:02.8
7 Lynette Watson   Australia 1:02.9
8 Magdolna Patoh   Hungary 1:03.8

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Susan Pedersen   United States 1:00.2 Q
2 Alexandra Jackson   Great Britain 1:00.6 Q
3 Roswitha Krause   East Germany 1:02.4
4 Uta Schmuck   East Germany 1:02.8
5 Shigeko Kawanishi   Japan 1:03.0
6 Lidiya Hrebets   Soviet Union 1:03.3
7 Edit Kovac   Hungary 1:03.5
8 Natalya Ustinova   Soviet Union 1:05.0

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jan Henne   United States 1:00.5 Q
2 Linda Gustavson   United States 1:00.6 Q
3 Judit Turoczy   Hungary 1:01.8 Q
4 Olga Kozikova   Czechoslovakia 1:02.6
5 Petronella Bos   Netherlands 1:02.8
5 Claude Mandonnaud   France 1:02.8
7 Elisabeth Berglund   Sweden 1:03.5
8 Simone Hanner   France 1:04.8

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Jan Henne   United States 1:00.0
  Susan Pedersen   United States 1:00.3
  Linda Gustavson   United States 1:00.3
4 Marion Lay   Canada 1:00.5
5 Martina Grunert   East Germany 1:01.0
6 Alexandra Jackson   Great Britain 1:01.0
7 Mirjana Šegrt   Yugoslavia 1:01.5
8 Judit Turóczy   Hungary 1:01.6

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2016.