Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle
Introduction The '''women's 100 metre freestyle''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 28 and 29.This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that 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   Gabriele Wetzko   1:00.40  '''Q'''  2  Tatyana Zolotnitskaya   1:01.24  ''' Q '''  3   Claude Mandonnaud   1:01.34  '''Q''' 4  Guylaine Berger   1:01.54  ''' ''' 5   Judit Turóczy   1:01.57  ''' ''' 6   Sharon Booth   1:02.07  ''' ''' 7  Kirsten Strange-Campbell   1:03.83  ''' ''' 8  Susana Saxlund   1:04.91  ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Enith Brigitha   1:00.02  '''Q'''  2  Anke Rijnders   1:00.76  ''' Q '''  3   Judy Wright   1:01.97  ''' ''' 4  Chantal Schertz   1:02.82  ''' ''' 5   Edit Kovács   1:03.00  ''' ''' 6   Lucy Burle   1:03.12  ''' ''' 7  Marcia Arriaga   1:03.66  ''' ''' 8  Ileana Morales   1:04.13  ''' ''''''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Magdolna Patóh   59.47  '''Q''', '''OR'''  2  Sandy Neilson   59.51  ''' Q '''  3   Hansje Bunschoten   1:00.82 '''Q''' 4  Eva Andersson   1:01.88  ''' ''' 5   Susan Edmondson   1:02.29  ''' ''' 6   Françoise Monod   1:02.43  ''' ''' 7  Heather Coombridge   1:02.95  ''' ''' 8  Hsu Yue-yun   1:04.77  ''' ''''''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Shirley Babashoff   59.51  '''Q'''  2  Wendy Cook   1:01.20  ''' Q '''  3   Mary Beth Rondeau   1:01.46  ''' ''' 4  Leanne Francis   1:01.90  ''' ''' 5   Lesley Allardice   1:02.07  ''' ''' 6   Inger Andersson   1:03.40  ''' ''' 7  Diane Walker   1:03.40  ''' ''''''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Jutta Weber   59.72  '''Q'''  2  Jenny Kemp   1:00.42  ''' Q '''  3   Sylvia Eichner   1:00.64  '''Q''' 4  Angela Steinbach   1:01.66  ''' ''' 5   Nadezhda Matyukhina   1:02.14  ''' ''' 6   Margrit Thomet   1:02.33  ''' ''' 7  Laura Podestà   1:02.88  ''' ''''''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Shane Gould   59.44  '''Q''', '''OR'''  2  Andrea Eife   59.73  ''' Q '''  3   Heidi Reineck   1:00.39  '''Q''' 4  Grethe Mathiesen   1:01.47  ''' ''' 5   Yelena Timoshenko   1:01.68  ''' ''' 6   Shigeko Kawanishi   1:02.13  ''' ''' 7  Khriska Peycheva   1:03.43  ''' ''' 8  Virginia Anchestegui   1:04.99  ''' '''===Semifinals==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Shirley Babashoff   59.05  '''Q''', '''OR'''  2  Magdolna Patóh   59.64  ''' Q '''  3   Heidi Reineck   59.66  '''Q''' 4  Andrea Eife   59.71  '''Q''' 5   Jenny Kemp   59.93  ''' ''' 6   Anke Rijnders   1:00.84  ''' ''' 7  Wendy Cook   1:01.26  ''' ''' 8  Claude Mandonnaud   1:01.88 ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Shane Gould   59.20  '''Q'''  2  Sandy Neilson   59.41  ''' Q '''  3   Gabriele Wetzko   59.46  '''Q''' 4  Enith Brigitha   59:75  '''Q''' 5   Jutta Weber   59:90  ''' ''' 6   Sylvia Eichner   1:00.73  ''' ''' 7  Hansje Bunschoten   1:00.79  ''' ''' 8  Tatyana Zolotnitskaya   1:01.12  ''' '''===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Sandy Neilson   58.59  '''OR'''  2 Shirley Babashoff   59.02  '''  '''  3  Shane Gould   59.06  ''' ''' 4  Gabriele Wetzko   59.21  ''' ''' 5   Heidi Reineck   59.73  ''' ''' 6   Andrea Eife   59.91  ''' ''' 7  Magdolna Patóh   1:00.02  ''' ''' 8  Enith Brigitha   1:00.09  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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