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


The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 2. 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
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Melissa Belote1:06.60
2Tina Lek'veishvili1:07.84
3Marianne Vermaat1:09.14
4Susanne Niesner1:09.16
5Kazu Fujimura1:09.81
6Diana Ashton1:10.90

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Wendy Cook-Hogg1:07.00
2Sue Lewis1:08.06
3Deborah Palmer1:08.68
4Annemarie Groen1:09.55
5Susan Hunter1:10.06
6Kikuyo Ishii1:10.44
7Ildikó Szekeres1:11.20
8Felicia Ospitaletche1:13.99

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Christine Herbst1:07.96
2Susie Atwood1:08.30
3Debra Cain1:08.81
4Sylvie Le Noach1:09.25
5Nataliya Yershova1:09.26
6Diana Olsson1:09.86
7Christine Fulcher1:10.63
8Diana Sutherland1:12.12

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Andrea Gyarmati1:06.56
2Enith Brigitha1:06.71
3Annegret Kober1:08.24
4Angelika Kraus1:08.92
5Susanne Hilger1:09.25
6Jacqueline Brown1:10.43
7Ong Mei Lin1:19.39

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Donna-Marie Gurr1:07.45
2Karen Moe-Thornton1:07.69
3Silke Pielen1:07.70
4Zdenka Gašparač1:09.72
5Cathy Raftery1:09.72
6Patricia López1:12.13
7María Cecilia Vargas1:12.91
8Pat Chan1:14.24

Semifinals

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Melissa Belote1:05.78OR
Andrea Gyarmati1:06.26
Susie Atwood1:06.34
4Karen Moe1:06.69
5Wendy Cook-Hogg1:06.70
6Enith Brigitha1:06.82
7Christine Herbst1:07.27
8Silke Pielen1:07.36

Key: OR = Olympic record