Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''women's 100 metre butterfly''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 20 and 21 October. 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==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Heike Hustede-Nagel    1:07.7   2  Ada Kok    1:08.5   3  Jeanne Warren    1:10.0   4  Yasuko Fujii    1:10.1   5  Patricia Obregón    1:12.4   6  Nam Sang-nam    1:16.9  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ellie Daniel    1:07.2   2  Tatyana Devyatova    1:07.6   3  Christine Strübing    1:09.2   4  Nel Bos    1:09.5   5  Oei Liana    1:11.2   6  Vivienne Smith    1:13.1   7  Catherine Grosjean    1:14.6  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Lyn McClements    1:06.1   2  Andrea Gyarmati    1:07.4   3  Yvonne Tobis    1:12.0  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Helga Lindner    1:08.0   2  Toni Hewitt    1:08.1   3  Margaret Auton    1:08.5   4  Carmen Gómez    1:14.7   5  Ruth Apt    1:15.3   6  Ana Marcial    1:17.1  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Susan Shields    1:06.2   2  Sandra Whittleston    1:08.5   3  Gillian Treers    1:10.6   4  Marilyn Corson    1:10.7   5  Pauline Gray    1:13.5   6  Adriana Comolli    1:16.5  ===Semifinals==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ada Kok    1:06.2   2  Susan Shields    1:06.3   3  Andrea Gyarmati    1:06.6  4  Heike Hustede-Nagel    1:07.0   5  Toni Hewitt    1:07.9   6  Christine Strübing    1:08.2   7  Jeanne Warren    1:09.7   8  Gillian Treers    1:10.6  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ellie Daniel    1:06.1   2  Lyn McClements    1:06.1   3  Helga Lindner    1:07.7   4  Tatyana Devyatova    1:08.4   5  Nel Bos    1:08.5   6  Sandra Whittleston    1:08.7   7  Margaret Auton    1:08.7   8  Yasuko Fujii    1:09.4  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Lyn McClements   1:05.5  ''' '''  2 Ellie Daniel   1:05.8  '''  '''  3  Susan Shields   1:06.2  ''' ''' 4  Ada Kok   1:06.2  ''' ''' 5   Andrea Gyarmati   1:06.8  ''' ''' 6   Heike Hustede-Nagel   1:06.9  ''' ''' 7  Toni Hewitt   1:07.5  ''' ''' 8  Helga Lindner   1:07.6  ''' '''
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