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

Swimming at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 20 and 21.[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

GoldLyn McClements
 Australia
SilverEllie Daniel
 United States
BronzeSusan Shields
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Heike Hustede-Nagel  West Germany 1:07.7
2 Ada Kok  Netherlands 1:08.5
3 Jeanne Warren  Canada 1:10.0
4 Yasuko Fujii  Japan 1:10.1
5 Patricia Obregón  Mexico 1:12.4
6 Nam Sang-nam  South Korea 1:16.9

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ellie Daniel  United States 1:07.2
2 Tetiana Dev'iatova  Soviet Union 1:07.6
3 Christine Strübing  East Germany 1:09.2
4 Nel Bos  Netherlands 1:09.5
5 Oei Liana  Chinese Taipei 1:11.2
6 Vivienne Smith  Ireland 1:13.1
7 Catherine Grosjean  France 1:14.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Lyn McClements  Australia 1:06.1
2 Andrea Gyarmati  Hungary 1:07.4
3 Yvonne Tobis  Israel 1:12.0

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Helga Lindner  East Germany 1:08.0
2 Toni Hewitt  United States 1:08.1
3 Margaret Auton  Great Britain 1:08.5
4 Carmen Gómez  Colombia 1:14.7
5 Ruth Apt  Uruguay 1:15.3
6 Ana Marcial  Puerto Rico 1:17.1

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Susan Shields  United States 1:06.2
2 Sandra Whittleston  New Zealand 1:08.5
3 Gillian Treers  Great Britain 1:10.6
4 Marilyn Corson  Canada 1:10.7
5 Pauline Gray  Australia 1:13.5
6 Adriana Comolli  Argentina 1:16.5

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Lyn McClements  Australia 1:05.5
Ellie Daniel  United States 1:05.8
Susan Shields  United States 1:06.2
4 Ada Kok  Netherlands 1:06.2
5 Andrea Gyarmati  Hungary 1:06.8
6 Heike Hustede-Nagel  West Germany 1:06.9
7 Toni Hewitt  United States 1:07.5
8 Helga Lindner  East Germany 1:07.6

References

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