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


The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 23 October. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Yukiko Goushi1:10.2
2Glenda Stirling1:10.2
3Kiki Caron1:10.5
4Bep Weeteling1:12.5
5Jacqueline Brown1:13.0
6Lidia Ramírez1:14.5

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Zdenka Gašparač1:09.9
2Jane Swagerty1:10.2
3Andrea Gyarmati1:11.3
4Yvette Hafner1:11.8
5Adriana Comolli1:13.8
6Doris Meister1:14.1
7Rosa Hasbún1:20.5

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Elaine Tanner1:07.6
2Lynne Watson1:09.4
3María Corominas1:10.7
4Ulla Patrikka1:11.6
5Angelika Kraus1:12.6
6Felicia Ospitaletche1:17.7
7Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Lien1:19.2

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Kendis Moore1:10.5
2Tatyana Savelyeva1:11.7
3Anca Andreiu1:11.8
4Dianna Rickard1:12.4
5Anne Walton1:13.0
6María Procopio1:15.9
7Shen Bao-ni1:21.5

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Sylvie Canet1:10.4
2Tina Lek'veishvili1:11.3
3Bénédicte Duprez1:11.6
4Patricia Sentous1:13.5
5Pru Chapman1:15.2
6Carmen Ferracuti1:17.8

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Kaye Hall1:09.8
2Cobie Buter1:10.0
3Mária Balla-Lantos1:11.9
4Coby Sikkens1:11.9
5Wendy Burrell1:12.0
6Francine Dauven1:15.3
7Judit Bárányi1:16.0

Semifinals

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Kaye Hall1:06.2WR
Elaine Tanner1:06.7
Jane Swagerty1:08.1
4Kendis Moore1:08.3
5Andrea Gyarmati1:09.1
6Lynne Watson1:09.1
7Sylvie Canet1:09.3
8Glenda Stirling1:10.6

Key: WR = World record