Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''women's 100 metre backstroke''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 2.This swimming event used backstroke. 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  Melissa Belote   1:06.60   2  Tina Lek'veishvili   1:07.84   3  Marianne Vermaat   1:09.14   4  Susanne Niesner   1:09.16   5  Kazu Fujimura   1:09.81   6  Diana Ashton   1:10.90  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Wendy Cook-Hogg   1:07.00   2  Sue Lewis   1:08.06   3  Deborah Palmer   1:08.68   4  Annemarie Groen   1:09.55   5  Susan Hunter   1:10.06   6  Kikuyo Ishii   1:10.44   7  Ildikó Szekeres   1:11.20   8  Felicia Ospitaletche   1:13.99  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Christine Herbst   1:07.96   2  Susie Atwood   1:08.30   3  Debra Cain   1:08.81   4  Sylvie Le Noach   1:09.25   5  Nataliya Yershova   1:09.26   6  Diana Olsson   1:09.86   7  Christine Fulcher   1:10.63   8  Diana Sutherland   1:12.12  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Andrea Gyarmati   1:06.56   2  Enith Brigitha   1:06.71   3  Annegret Kober   1:08.24   4  Angelika Kraus   1:08.92   5  Susanne Hilger   1:09.25   6  Jacqueline Brown   1:10.43   7  Ong Mei Lin   1:19.39  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Donna-Marie Gurr   1:07.45   2  Karen Moe-Thornton   1:07.69   3  Silke Pielen   1:07.70   4  Zdenka Gašparač   1:09.72   5  Cathy Raftery   1:09.72   6  Patricia López   1:12.13   7  María Cecilia Vargas   1:12.91   8  Pat Chan   1:14.24  ===Semifinals======Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Melissa Belote   1:05.78  '''OR'''  2 Andrea Gyarmati   1:06.26  '''  '''  3  Susie Atwood   1:06.34  ''' ''' 4  Karen Moe   1:06.69  ''' ''' 5   Wendy Cook-Hogg   1:06.70  ''' ''' 6   Enith Brigitha   1:06.82  ''' ''' 7  Christine Herbst   1:07.27  ''' ''' 8  Silke Pielen   1:07.36  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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