Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''women's 100 metre butterfly''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 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
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Dana Shrader   1:05.09  '''Q'''  2  Edeltraud Koch   1:05.29  '''Q'''  3   Frieke Buys   1:06.89  '''Q''' 4  Margrit Thomet   1:07.28  '''Q''' 5   Brenda McGrory   1:08.52  ''' ''' 6   Donatella Talpo-Schiavon   1:08.98  ''' ''' 7  Susan Smith   1:09.38  ''' ''' 8  Norma Amezcua   1:12.23  ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Andrea Gyarmati   1:04.01  '''OR, Q'''  2  Roswitha Beier   1:04.34  '''Q'''  3   Eva Wikner   1:06.70  '''Q''' 4  Iryna Ustymenko   1:07.44  '''Q''' 5   Aurora Chamorro   1:08.39  ''' ''' 6   Leslie Cliff   1:09.29  ''' ''' 7  Hsu Yue-yun   1:11.67  ''' ''''''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Deena Deardurff   1:04.80  '''Q'''  2  Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel   1:04.83  ''' Q'''  3   Noriko Asano   1:04.97  '''Q''' 4  Sue Funch   1:07.51  ''' ''' 5   Jean Jeavons   1:07.64  ''' ''' 6   Věra Faitlová   1:08.18  ''' ''' 7  Tay Chin Joo   1:10.92  ''' ''' 8  Susana Saxlund   1:11.90  ''' ''''''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Mayumi Aoki   1:04.00  '''OR, Q'''  2  Ellie Daniel   1:04.33  ''' Q '''  3   Gudrun Beckmann   1:05.26  '''Q''' 4  Heike Nagel   1:05.64  '''Q''' 5   Marilyn Corson   1:06.26  '''Q''' 6   Judit Turóczy   1:09.73  ''' ''' 7  Ileana Morales   1:10.37  ''' '''===Semifinals==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Andrea Gyarmati   1:03.80  '''Q''', '''WR'''  2  Roswitha Beier   1:04.36  ''' Q '''  3   Dana Shrader   1:04.54  '''Q''' 4  Rosemarie Kother   1:04.64  ''' ''' 5   Edeltraud Koch   1:05.28  ''' ''' 6   Frieke Buys   1:06.78  ''' ''' 7  Marilyn Corson   1:06.78  ''' ''' 8  Iryna Ustymenko   1:07.76  ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Deena Deardurff   1:03.97  '''Q'''  2  Mayumi Aoki   1:04.11  ''' Q '''  3   Ellie Daniel   1:04.25 '''Q''' 4  Gudrun Beckmann   1:04.52  '''Q''' 5   Noriko Asano   1:04.53  '''Q''' 6   Heike Hustede   1:06.48  ''' ''' 7  Margrit Thomet   1:07.12  ''' ''' 8  Eva Wikner   1:07.53  ''' '''===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Mayumi Aoki   1:03.34  '''WR'''  2 Roswitha Beier   1:03.61  '''  '''  3  Andrea Gyarmati   1:03.73  ''' ''' 4  Deena Deardurff   1:03.95  ''' ''' 5   Dana Shrader   1:03.98  ''' ''' 6   Ellie Daniel   1:04.08  ''' ''' 7  Gudrun Beckmann   1:04.15  ''' ''' 8  Noriko Asano   1:04.25  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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