Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1960 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
Medley relay
4×100 m	men		women

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 26 and 29.^[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	Dawn Fraser  Australia
Silver	Chris von Saltza  United States
Bronze	Natalie Steward  Great Britain

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ilsa Konrads	Australia	1:04.2
2	Erica Terpstra	Netherlands	1:04.4
3	Katalin Boros	Hungary	1:05.2
4	Karin Larsson	Sweden	1:06.3
5	Maria Cristina Pacifici	Italy	1:07.1
6	Blanca Barrón	Mexico	1:07.9

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Dawn Fraser	Australia	1:02.1
2	Cocki van Engelsdorp Gastelaars	Netherlands	1:03.9
3	Inger Thorngren	Sweden	1:06.1
4	Yoshiko Sato	Japan	1:06.4
5	Nora Novotny	Austria	1:07.4
6	Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir	Iceland	1:07.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai	Hungary	1:04.5
2	Heidi Pechstein	Germany	1:05.1
3	Diana Wilkinson	Great Britain	1:07.5
4	Margaret Iwasaki	Canada	1:07.6
5	Anneliese Rockenbach	Venezuela	1:08.5
6	Hitomi Jinno	Japan	1:09.8
7	Rita Pulido	Spain	1:10.0

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Chris von Saltza	United States	1:01.9
2	Ursel Brunner	Germany	1:04.6
3	Héda Frost	France	1:05.8
4	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:06.0
5	Ulvi Voog	Soviet Union	1:06.7
6	Haydée Coloso	Philippines	1:07.8
7	Dottie Sutcliffe	Rhodesia	1:09.0

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Natalie Steward	Great Britain	1:03.5
2	Carolyn Wood	United States	1:04.3
3	Paola Saini	Italy	1:04.4
4	Marina Shamal	Soviet Union	1:06.4
5	Marie-Laure Gaillot	France	1:08.0
6	María Luisa Souza	Mexico	1:08.4

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Dawn Fraser	Australia	1:01.2	OR
	Chris von Saltza	United States	1:02.8
	Natalie Steward	Great Britain	1:03.1
4	Carolyn Wood	United States	1:03.4
5	Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai	Hungary	1:03.6
6	Erica Terpstra	Netherlands	1:04.3
7	Cocki van Engelsdorp Gastelaars	Netherlands	1:04.7
8	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:05.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References