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

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
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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

Gold	Carolyn Schuler  United States
Silver	Marianne Heemskerk  Netherlands
Bronze	Jan Andrew  Australia

Results

Heats

Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
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
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
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
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

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	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

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