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

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Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
VenueAlberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez
Date18 September (heats & semifinals)
19 September (final)
Competitors33 from 20 nations
Winning time1:15.8 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Đurđica Bjedov  Yugoslavia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sharon Wichman  United States
1972 →
Swimming at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between 18 and 19 October in the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez.[1][2] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool. This was the first appearance for this event in the Olympics for the women swimmers.

American Katie Ball was the favorite to win three gold medals at the 1968 Olympics.[3][4] She was the reigning world record holder in all four breaststroke distances and bettered her own world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in August 1968.[5][6] She arrived at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, however, with a case of influenza.[3] She won her only Olympic medal, a gold, as a member of the winning U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay team by swimming the breaststroke leg of the four-person relay.[7] Sharing the gold medal honors were her relay teammates Kaye Hall (backstroke), Ellie Daniel (butterfly) and Susan Pedersen (freestyle).[8] In the 100-meter breaststroke final, Ball led close to the finish but physical exhaustion overwhelmed her,[3] and she finished fifth.[9] She was too ill to swim in the subsequent preliminary heats of the 200-meter breaststroke and was scratched from the event.[3][10]

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Catie Ball  United States 1:18.8 OR
2 Jo-Anne Barnes  Australia 1:19.1
3 Sue Jones  United States 1:19.3
4 Dorothy Harrison  Great Britain 1:19.6
5 Christine Filippovits  Austria 1:19.9
6 Tamara Oynick  Mexico 1:22.7
7 Liana Vicens  Puerto Rico 1:25.2

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Djurdjica Bjedov  Yugoslavia 1:17.7 OR
2 Alla Grebennikova  Soviet Union 1:19.3
3 Shlomit Nir  Israel 1:20.9
4 Ann O'Connor  Ireland 1:21.1
5 Marjan Janus  Netherlands 1:21.9
6 Tamara Orejuela  Ecuador 1:26.8
7 Celia Jokisch  El Salvador 1:46.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Sharon Wichman  United States 1:18.3
2 Judy Playfair  Australia 1:19.2
3 Yvonne Brage  Sweden 1:20.8
4 Vreni Eberle  West Germany 1:22.6
5 Víctoria Casas  Mexico 1:24.7
6 María Moreño  El Salvador 1:27.2

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Uta Frommater  West Germany 1:18.5
2 Galina Prozumenschikova  Soviet Union 1:18.6
3 Svetlana Babanina  Soviet Union 1:20.2
4 Jill Slattery  Great Britain 1:20.7
5 Sue McKenzie  Australia 1:20.9
6 Ellen Ingvadóttir  Iceland 1:22.6

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ana María Norbis  Uruguay 1:17.4 OR
2 Kiyoe Nakagawa  Japan 1:18.2
3 Diana Harris  Great Britain 1:19.8
4 Yukari Takemoto  Japan 1:20.7
5 Márta Egerváry  Hungary 1:22.6
6 Arlette Wilmes  Luxembourg 1:24.4
7 María Castro  El Salvador 1:36.9

Semifinals

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Sharon Wichman  United States 1:16.8 OR
2 Djurdjica Bjedov  Yugoslavia 1:17.1
3 Galina Prozumenschikova  Soviet Union 1:17.5
4 Joanne Barnes  Australia 1:18.4
5 Alla Grebennikova  Soviet Union 1:18.6
6 Christine Filippovits  Austria 1:18.9
7 Dorothy Harrison  Great Britain 1:19.6
8 Jill Slattery  Great Britain 1:19.8

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ana Norbis  Uruguay 1:16.7 OR
2 Catie Ball  United States 1:16.8
3 Uta Frommater  West Germany 1:16.9
4 Kiyoe Nakagawa  Japan 1:17.7
5 Svetlana Babanina  Soviet Union 1:18.3
6 Sue Jones  United States 1:18.6
7 Judy Playfair  Australia 1:19.3
8 Diana Harris  Great Britain 1:19.3

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Đurđica Bjedov  Yugoslavia 1:15.8 OR
2 Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union 1:15.9
3 Sharon Wichman  United States 1:16.1
4 Uta Frommater  West Germany 1:16.2
5 Catie Ball  United States 1:16.7
6 Kiyoe Nakagawa  Japan 1:17.0
7 Svetlana Babanina  Soviet Union 1:17.2
8 Ana María Norbis  Uruguay 1:17.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. ^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Jamie Secola, "Hall of Fame induction cements Ball-Condon's swimming legacy," Pensacola News-Journal (July 4, 2010). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  4. ^ Frank Litsky, "U.S. Expected to Win the Most Medals (112) and the Most Gold Medals (43); Major Hopes In Swimming And in Track," The New York Times, p. S17 (October 6, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  5. ^ United Press International, "Catie Ball Clips World Swim Mark," The New York Times, p. 50 (August 27, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  6. ^ Bob Ottum, "The Encore Will be in Mexico," Sports Illustrated (September 16, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  7. ^ databaseOlympics.com, Athletes, Catie Ball Archived January 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  8. ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  9. ^ "U.S. Swimmers Register Sweep in Women's 100-Meter Olympic Free-Style," The New York Times, p. S2 (October 20, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  10. ^ Associated Press, "U.S.–Yugoslavia in Cage Finals," The Evening Independent, p. 2C (October 23, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
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