Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Women's 100 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez
Date	22 October 1968 (heats & semi-finals); 23 October 1968 (final)
Competitors	41 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:06.2 (WR)
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 23 October.^[1] This swimming event used backstroke. 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 as follows.

World record	Karen Muir (RSA)	1:06.4	Paris, France	6 April 1968	^[2]
Olympic record	Cathy Ferguson (USA)	1:07.7	Tokyo, Japan	14 October 1964	^[3]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 October 1968	Final	Kaye Hall	United States	1:06.2	WR

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Yukiko Goushi	Japan	1:10.2	Q
2	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.2	Q
3	Kiki Caron	France	1:10.5	Q
4	Bep Weeteling	Netherlands	1:12.5
5	Jacqueline Brown	Great Britain	1:13.0
6	Lidia Ramírez	Mexico	1:14.5
7	Hedy García	Philippines	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	1:09.9	Q
2	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:10.2	Q
3	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:11.3	Q
4	Yvette Hafner	Austria	1:11.8
5	Adriana Comolli	Argentina	1:13.8
6	Doris Meister	West Germany	1:14.1
7	Rosa Hasbún	El Salvador	1:20.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:07.6	Q
2	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.4	Q
3	María Corominas	Spain	1:10.7	Q
4	Ulla Patrikka	Finland	1:11.6	Q
5	Angelika Kraus	West Germany	1:12.6
6	Felicia Ospitaletche	Uruguay	1:17.7
7	Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Lien	Vietnam	1:19.2

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kendis Moore	United States	1:10.5	Q
2	Tatyana Savelyeva	Soviet Union	1:11.7
3	Anca Andreiu	Romania	1:11.8
4	Dianna Rickard	Australia	1:12.4
5	Anne Walton	Canada	1:13.0
6	María Procopio	Argentina	1:15.9
7	Shen Bao-ni	Taiwan	1:21.5

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Sylvie Canet	France	1:10.4	Q
2	Tina Lek'veishvili	Soviet Union	1:11.3	Q
3	Bénédicte Duprez	France	1:11.6	Q
4	Patricia Sentous	Argentina	1:13.5
5	Pru Chapman	New Zealand	1:15.2
6	Carmen Ferracuti	El Salvador	1:17.8

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kaye Hall	United States	1:09.8	Q
2	Cobie Buter	Netherlands	1:10.0	Q
3	Mária Balla-Lantos	Hungary	1:11.9
4	Coby Sikkens	Netherlands	1:11.9
5	Wendy Burrell	Great Britain	1:12.0
6	Francine Dauven	Belgium	1:15.3
7	Judit Bárányi	Hungary	1:16.0

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.0	Q
2	Kendis Moore	United States	1:09.6	Q
3	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.1	Q
4	Yukiko Goushi	Japan	1:10.2
5	Bénédicte Duprez	France	1:10.6
6	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	1:10.8
7	María Corominas	Spain	1:11.0
8	Tina Lek'veishvili	Soviet Union	1:11.0

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:07.4	Q
2	Kaye Hall	United States	1:08.2	Q
3	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:08.6	Q
4	Sylvie Canet	France	1:09.0	Q
5	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:09.9	Q
6	Cobie Buter	Netherlands	1:10.7
7	Kiki Caron	France	1:10.8
8	Ulla Patrikka	Finland	1:12.1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kaye Hall	United States	1:06.2	WR
	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:06.7
	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:08.1
4	Kendis Moore	United States	1:08.3
5	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:09.1
6	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.1
7	Sylvie Canet	France	1:09.3
8	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.6

Key: WR = World record

Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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