Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Introduction The '''women's 100 metre breaststroke''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 2 in the Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Lyudmila Porubayko   1:17.14   2  Renate Vogel   1:17.33   3  Beverley Whitfield   1:17.59   4  Tetiana Prudnikova   1:18.11   5  Yoko Yamamoto   1:18.94   6  Ann O'Connor   1:19.13   7  Judith Hudson   1:19.78   8  Shlomit Nir   1:20.90  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Judy Melick   1:16.75   2  Vreni Eberle   1:17.67   3  Lynn Vidali   1:18.80   4  Zuzana Marková   1:18.88   5  Jaroslava Slavíčková   1:19.12   6  Diana Harris   1:19.19   7  Winnie Nielsen   1:23.00   8  Leonor Urueta   1:23.21  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Dorothy Harrison   1:16.99   2  Christine Jarvis   1:18.27   3  Sylvia Langer   1:18.29   4  Brigitte Schuchardt   1:18.62   5  Dagmar Sierck   1:18.80   6  Jane Wright   1:20.56   7  Cristina Teixeira   1:20.58   8  Ani Jane Mugrditchian   1:29.71  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Halyna Prozumenshchykova-Stepanova   1:17.18   2  Jeanette Pettersson   1:17.83   3  Éva Kiss   1:18.57   4  Alie te Riet   1:18.79   5  Tineke Hofland   1:19.38   6  Patricia Siewert   1:19.54   7  Mairi Ioannidou   1:21.70   8  Lee Yue-hwan   1:25.47  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Cathy Carr   1:16.01   2  Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss   1:16.52   3  Britt-Marie Smedh   1:17.21   4  Erika Rüegg   1:17.95   5  Sylvia Dockerill   1:18.64   6  Marian Stuart   1:18.69   7  Béatrice Mottoulle   1:20.79   8  Ana Elena de la Portilla   1:21.61  ===Semifinals==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Galina Prozumenshchikova   1:15.89   2  Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss   1:16.34  3  Dorothy Harrison   1:16.53   4  Vreni Eberle   1:16.76   5  Renate Vogel   1:16.87   6  Erika Rüegg   1:17.50   7  Christine Jarvis   1:17.58  8  Éva Kiss   1:17.59  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Cathy Carr   1:15.00  '''OR''' 2  Judy Melick   1:16.22   3  Beverley Whitfield   1:16.26   4  Britt-Marie Smedh   1:16.67   5  Lyudmila Porubayko   1:16.85   6  Jeanette Pettersson   1:17.54   7  Tetiana Prudnikova   1:19.37   8  Sylvia Langer   1:20.03  '''Key''': OR = Olympic record===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Cathy Carr   1:13.58  '''WR'''  2 Galina Prozumenshchikova   1:14.99  '''  '''  3  Beverley Whitfield   1:15.73  ''' ''' 4  Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss   1:16.26  ''' ''' 5   Judy Melick   1:16.34  ''' ''' 6   Vreni Eberle   1:17.16  ''' ''' 7  Britt-Marie Smedh   1:17.19  ''' ''' 8  Dorothy Harrison   1:17.49  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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