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.^[1] 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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Yukiko Goushi	Japan	1:10.2
2	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.2
3	Kiki Caron	France	1:10.5
4	Bep Weeteling	Netherlands	1:12.5
5	Jacqueline Brown	Great Britain	1:13.0
6	Lidia Ramírez	Mexico	1:14.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	1:09.9
2	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:10.2
3	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:11.3
4	Yvette Hafner	Austria	1:11.8
5	Adriana Comolli	Argentina	1:13.8
6	Doris Meister	West Germany	1:14.1
7	Rosa Hasbún	El Salvador	1:20.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:07.6
2	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.4
3	María Corominas	Spain	1:10.7
4	Ulla Patrikka	Finland	1:11.6
5	Angelika Kraus	West Germany	1:12.6
6	Felicia Ospitaletche	Uruguay	1:17.7
7	Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Lien	South Vietnam	1:19.2

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Kendis Moore	United States	1:10.5
2	Tatyana Savelyeva	Soviet Union	1:11.7
3	Anca Andreiu	Romania	1:11.8
4	Dianna Rickard	Australia	1:12.4
5	Anne Walton	Canada	1:13.0
6	María Procopio	Argentina	1:15.9
7	Shen Bao-ni	Chinese Taipei	1:21.5

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Sylvie Canet	France	1:10.4
2	Tina Lek'veishvili	Soviet Union	1:11.3
3	Bénédicte Duprez	France	1:11.6
4	Patricia Sentous	Argentina	1:13.5
5	Pru Chapman	New Zealand	1:15.2
6	Carmen Ferracuti	El Salvador	1:17.8

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Kaye Hall	United States	1:09.8
2	Cobie Buter	Netherlands	1:10.0
3	Mária Balla-Lantos	Hungary	1:11.9
4	Coby Sikkens	Netherlands	1:11.9
5	Wendy Burrell	Great Britain	1:12.0
6	Francine Dauven	Belgium	1:15.3
7	Judit Bárányi	Hungary	1:16.0

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kaye Hall	United States	1:06.2	WR
	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:06.7
	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:08.1
4	Kendis Moore	United States	1:08.3
5	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:09.1
6	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.1
7	Sylvie Canet	France	1:09.3
8	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.6

Key: WR = World record

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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