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| Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Swimming and Diving Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 29 November (heats) 30 November (semifinals) 1 December (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 35 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:02.0 (WR) | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| ← 19521960 → | |||||||||||||
| Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Freestyle | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 100 m | women | |
| 200 m | men | |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | |
The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place from 29 November to 1 December. 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.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:
| World record |  Lorraine Crapp (AUS) |
1:02.4 s | Melbourne, Australia | 25 October 1956 |
| Olympic record |  Judit Temes (HUN) |
1:05.5 s | Helsinki, Finland | 26 July 1952 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November | Heat 1 | Lorraine Crapp |  Australia |
1:03.4 | OR | |
| 29 November | Heat 5 | Dawn Fraser | Australia |
1:02.4 | OR | |
| 1 December | Final | Dawn Fraser | Australia |
1:02.0 | OR | WR |
Results
Heats
Semifinals
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Dawn Fraser | Australia
|
1:03.0 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Lorraine Crapp | Australia
|
1:03.1 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Faith Leech | Australia
|
1:05.2 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Marrion Roe |  New Zealand
|
1:05.3 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Virginia Grant |  Canada
|
1:05.5 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Shelley Mann |  United States
|
1:05.5 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Joan Rosazza | United States
|
1:05.9 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Natalie Myburgh |  South Africa
|
1:06.0 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Nancy Simons | United States
|
1:06.1 | |
| 10 | 2 | Kate Jobson |  Sweden
|
1:06.1 | |
| 11 | 1 | Valéria Gyenge |  Hungary
|
1:06.4 | |
| 12 | 2 | Susan Roberts | South Africa
|
1:06.6 | |
| 13 | 2 | Jeanette Myburgh | South Africa
|
1:06.7 | |
| 14 | 1 | Zsuzsa Ördögh | Hungary
|
1:06.9 | |
| 15 | 1 | Helen Stewart | Canada
|
1:06..9 | |
| 16 | 1 | Birgit Klomp |  United Team of Germany
|
1:07.9 |
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dawn Fraser | Australia
|
1:02.0 | WR |
|
Lorraine Crapp | Australia
|
1:02.4 | |
|
Faith Leech | Australia
|
1:05.1 | |
| 4 | Joan Rosazza | United States
|
1:05.2 | |
| 5 | Virginia Grant | Canada
|
1:05.4 | |
| 6 | Shelley Mann | United States
|
1:05.6 | |
| 7 | Marrion Roe | New Zealand
|
1:05.6 | |
| 8 | Natalie Myburgh | South Africa
|
1:05.8 |
Key: WR = World record
References
- "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
| Olympic champions in women's 100 m freestyle | |
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