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


The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 29 and August 30. 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

Results

Heats

Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals
Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Carolyn Schuler1:09.8
2Jan Andrew1:10.3
3Valentina Poznyak1:13.2
4Jean Oldroyd1:14.2
5Silvia Belmar1:16.5
6Hannelore Janele1:18.4
Judith McHaleDNS

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Sheila Watt1:12.3
2Zinaida Belovetskaya1:12.6
3Kristina Larsson1:13.0
4Anna Beneck1:18.4
5Hillary Wilson1:21.4
Dawn FraserDNS
Gertrudes LozadaDNS

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Carolyn Wood1:11.1
2Atie Voorbij1:12.4
3Heidi Eisenschmidt1:14.6
4Karin Larsson1:15.0
5Eulalia Martínez1:17.9
6Márta Egerváry1:19.4
7Colette Libourel1:20.4

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Marianne Heemskerk1:11.0
2Bärbel Fuhrmann1:13.2
3Margaret Iwasaki1:14.2
4Shizue Miyabe1:15.8
5Sandra von Giese1:16.3
6Annie Caron1:17.1
7Anna Cechi1:19.5

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Carolyn Schuler1:09.5OR
Marianne Heemskerk1:10.4
Jan Andrew1:12.2
4Sheila Watt1:13.3
5Atie Voorbij1:13.3
6Zinaida Belovetskaya1:13.3
7Kristina Larsson1:13.6
Carolyn WoodDNF

Wood was in second place after 70 metres, but swallowed too much water, became confused, and stopped swimming.
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record