Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
Appearance
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 butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 29 and August 30.[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
[edit]Gold | Carolyn Schuler United States |
Silver | Marianne Heemskerk Netherlands |
Bronze | Jan Andrew Australia |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals
Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Carolyn Schuler | United States | 1:09.8 | |
2 | Jan Andrew | Australia | 1:10.3 | |
3 | Valentina Poznyak | Soviet Union | 1:13.2 | |
4 | Jean Oldroyd | Great Britain | 1:14.2 | |
5 | Silvia Belmar | Mexico | 1:16.5 | |
6 | Hannelore Janele | Austria | 1:18.4 | |
Judith McHale | Canada | DNS |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Sheila Watt | Great Britain | 1:12.3 | |
2 | Zinaida Belovetskaya | Soviet Union | 1:12.6 | |
3 | Kristina Larsson | Sweden | 1:13.0 | |
4 | Anna Beneck | Italy | 1:18.4 | |
5 | Hillary Wilson | Rhodesia | 1:21.4 | |
Dawn Fraser | Australia | DNS | ||
Gertrudes Lozada | Philippines | DNS |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Carolyn Wood | United States | 1:11.1 | |
2 | Atie Voorbij | Netherlands | 1:12.4 | |
3 | Heidi Eisenschmidt | United Team of Germany | 1:14.6 | |
4 | Karin Larsson | Sweden | 1:15.0 | |
5 | Eulalia Martínez | Mexico | 1:17.9 | |
6 | Márta Egerváry | Hungary | 1:19.4 | |
7 | Colette Libourel | France | 1:20.4 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Marianne Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:11.0 | |
2 | Bärbel Fuhrmann | United Team of Germany | 1:13.2 | |
3 | Margaret Iwasaki | Canada | 1:14.2 | |
4 | Shizue Miyabe | Japan | 1:15.8 | |
5 | Sandra von Giese | Philippines | 1:16.3 | |
6 | Annie Caron | France | 1:17.1 | |
7 | Anna Cechi | Italy | 1:19.5 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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Carolyn Schuler | United States | 1:09.5 | OR | |
Marianne Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:10.4 | ||
Jan Andrew | Australia | 1:12.2 | ||
4 | Sheila Watt | Great Britain | 1:13.3 | |
5 | Atie Voorbij | Netherlands | 1:13.3 | |
6 | Zinaida Belovetskaya | Soviet Union | 1:13.3 | |
7 | Kristina Larsson | Sweden | 1:13.6 | |
Carolyn Wood | United States | DNF |
Wood was in second place after 70 metres, but swallowed too much water, became confused, and stopped swimming.[2]
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book To The Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 443. ISBN 0140066322.
External links
[edit]- Women 100m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1960 Roma (ITA) - Tuesday 30.08; retrieved 2015-01-03