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
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
1 | Melissa Belote | | 1:06.60 | |
2 | Tina Lek'veishvili | | 1:07.84 | |
3 | Marianne Vermaat | | 1:09.14 | |
4 | Susanne Niesner | | 1:09.16 | |
5 | Kazu Fujimura | | 1:09.81 | |
6 | Diana Ashton | | 1:10.90 | |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
1 | Wendy Cook-Hogg | | 1:07.00 | |
2 | Sue Lewis | | 1:08.06 | |
3 | Deborah Palmer | | 1:08.68 | |
4 | Annemarie Groen | | 1:09.55 | |
5 | Susan Hunter | | 1:10.06 | |
6 | Kikuyo Ishii | | 1:10.44 | |
7 | Ildikó Szekeres | | 1:11.20 | |
8 | Felicia Ospitaletche | | 1:13.99 | |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
1 | Christine Herbst | | 1:07.96 | |
2 | Susie Atwood | | 1:08.30 | |
3 | Debra Cain | | 1:08.81 | |
4 | Sylvie Le Noach | | 1:09.25 | |
5 | Nataliya Yershova | | 1:09.26 | |
6 | Diana Olsson | | 1:09.86 | |
7 | Christine Fulcher | | 1:10.63 | |
8 | Diana Sutherland | | 1:12.12 | |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
1 | Andrea Gyarmati | | 1:06.56 | |
2 | Enith Brigitha | | 1:06.71 | |
3 | Annegret Kober | | 1:08.24 | |
4 | Angelika Kraus | | 1:08.92 | |
5 | Susanne Hilger | | 1:09.25 | |
6 | Jacqueline Brown | | 1:10.43 | |
7 | Ong Mei Lin | | 1:19.39 | |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
1 | Donna-Marie Gurr | | 1:07.45 | |
2 | Karen Moe-Thornton | | 1:07.69 | |
3 | Silke Pielen | | 1:07.70 | |
4 | Zdenka Gašparač | | 1:09.72 | |
5 | Cathy Raftery | | 1:09.72 | |
6 | Patricia López | | 1:12.13 | |
7 | María Cecilia Vargas | | 1:12.91 | |
8 | Pat Chan | | 1:14.24 | |
Semifinals
Final
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| Melissa Belote | | 1:05.78 | OR |
| Andrea Gyarmati | | 1:06.26 | |
| Susie Atwood | | 1:06.34 | |
4 | Karen Moe | | 1:06.69 | |
5 | Wendy Cook-Hogg | | 1:06.70 | |
6 | Enith Brigitha | | 1:06.82 | |
7 | Christine Herbst | | 1:07.27 | |
8 | Silke Pielen | | 1:07.36 | |
Key: OR = Olympic record