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

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 18 and 19 October.^[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Jan Henne United States
Silver	Susan Pedersen United States
Bronze	Linda Gustavson United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Claude Mandonnaud	France	1:03.2
2	Elisabeth Berglund	Sweden	1:03.6
3	Jenny Steinbeck	Australia	1:03.8
4	Simone Hanner	France	1:03.8
5	Helen Elliott	Philippines	1:05.1
6	Patricia Olano	Colombia	1:05.3

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Alexandra Jackson	Great Britain	1:00.5
2	Nataliya Ustinova	Soviet Union	1:03.8
3	Miwako Kobayashi	Japan	1:04.2
4	Mariya Nikolova	Bulgaria	1:05.1
5	Shen Bao-ni	Chinese Taipei	1:06.7
6	Ruth Apt	Uruguay	1:07.0

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Nel Bos	Netherlands	1:03.0
2	Mirjana Šegrt	Yugoslavia	1:03.3
3	Edit Kovács	Hungary	1:03.7
4	Catherine Grosjean	France	1:04.9
5	Fiona Kellock	Great Britain	1:05.8
6	Gillian Treers	Great Britain	1:06.3
7	Silvana Asturias	Guatemala	1:10.3

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Judit Turóczy	Hungary	1:02.1
2	Shigeko Kawanishi	Japan	1:02.6
3	Uta Schmuck	East Germany	1:03.1
4	Lotten Andersson	Sweden	1:04.5
5	Rosario de Vivanco	Peru	1:04.7
6	Ingeborg Renner	West Germany	1:05.9
7	Hedy García	Philippines	1:06.1
8	Lorna Blake	Puerto Rico	1:13.2

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Linda Gustavson	United States	1:00.8
2	Martina Grunert	East Germany	1:03.2
3	Maria Strumolo	Italy	1:04.1
4	Helmi Boxberger	West Germany	1:05.1
5	Vera Kock	Sweden	1:05.1
6	Vivian Ortíz	Mexico	1:06.9
7	Emilia Figueroa	Uruguay	1:07.2
8	Ana Marcial	Puerto Rico	1:10.1

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Sue Pedersen	United States	1:01.5
2	Roswitha Krause	East Germany	1:03.3
3	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:03.5
4	Magdolna Patóh	Hungary	1:03.8
5	Ana Boban	Yugoslavia	1:05.4
6	Toos Beumer	Netherlands	1:06.1
7	Lylian Castillo	Uruguay	1:08.3
8	Rosa Hasbún	El Salvador	1:10.0

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Marion Lay	Canada	1:00.6
2	Lidiya Hrebets	Soviet Union	1:03.3
3	Oľga Kozičová	Czechoslovakia	1:03.3
4	Zoya Dus	Soviet Union	1:04.2
5	Carmen Ferracuti	El Salvador	1:08.5
6	Nguyễn Minh Tam	South Vietnam	1:09.5

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jan Henne	United States	1:00.1
2	Lyn Bell	Australia	1:01.9
3	Oei Liana	Chinese Taipei	1:03.0
4	Heidi Reineck	West Germany	1:04.2
5	Marcia Arriaga	Mexico	1:05.4
6	Mirjam van Hemert	Netherlands	1:06.1
7	Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	1:06.3
8	Kristina Moir	Puerto Rico	1:07.9

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Jan Henne	United States	1:00.0
	Susan Pedersen	United States	1:00.3
	Linda Gustavson	United States	1:00.3
4	Marion Lay	Canada	1:00.5
5	Martina Grunert	East Germany	1:01.0
6	Alexandra Jackson	Great Britain	1:01.0
7	Mirjana Šegrt	Yugoslavia	1:01.5
8	Judit Turóczy	Hungary	1:01.6

References

↑ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

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[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

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