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

Swimming at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

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

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

Results

Heats

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

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Carolyn Schuler  United States 1:09.5 OR
2 Marianne Heemskerk  Netherlands 1:10.4
3 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

  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.