Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place on December 3 and December 5.^[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

Eight fastest swimmers from the heats advanced to the finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Shelley Mann	United States	1:11.2	Q
2	Nancy Ramey	United States	1:13.4	Q
3	Sara Barber	Canada	1:16.2	Q
4	Marta Skupilová	Czechoslovakia	1:17.7
5	Maureen Giles	Australia	1:19.4

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Beverly Bainbridge	Australia	1:14.4	Q
2	Mary Sears	United States	1:15.1	Q
3	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:15.2	Q
4	Beth Whittall	Canada	1:16.9	Q
5	Jutta Langenau	United Team of Germany	1:17.4	Q
6	Anne Morton	Great Britain	1:17.7
7	Odette Lusien-Casteur	France	1:19.8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Shelley Mann	United States	1:11.0	OR
	Nancy Ramey	United States	1:11.9
	Mary Sears	United States	1:14.4
4	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:14.9
5	Beverly Bainbridge	Australia	1:15.2
6	Jutta Langenau	United Team of Germany	1:17.4
7	Beth Whittall	Canada	1:17.9
8	Sara Barber	Canada	1:18.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

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Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men