Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 5, 1973
Competitors	24 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:13.748
Medalists
Renate Vogel    East Germany   Lyubov Rusanova    Soviet Union   Brigitte Schuchardt    East Germany
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The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Cathy Carr (USA)	1:13.58	Munich, West Germany	2 September 1973
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 September	Heat	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	1:17.030	CR
5 September	Heat	Lyubov Rusanova	Soviet Union	1:16.762	CR
5 September	Heat	Renate Vogel	East Germany	1:14.600	CR
5 September	Final	Renate Vogel	East Germany	1:13.748	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

24 swimmers participated in 3 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Renate Vogel	East Germany	1:14.600	Q, CR
2	3	-	Lynn Colella	United States	1:16.670	Q
3	2	-	Lyubov Rusanova	Soviet Union	1:16.762	Q, CR
4	2	-	Brigitte Schuchardt	East Germany	1:16.877	Q
5	1	-	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	1:17.030	Q, CR
6	2	-	Petra Nows	West Germany	1:17.271	Q
7	1	-	Marcia Morey	United States	1:17.325	Q
8	2	-	Christine Jarvis	Great Britain	1:17.995	Q
9	1	-	Éva Kiss	Hungary	1:18.136
10	2	-		Canada	1:18.147
11	3	-		Soviet Union	1:18.920
12	3	-	Judith Hudson	Australia	1:19.210
13	2	-	Beverley Whitfield	Australia	1:19.390
14	3	-	Marian Stuart	Canada	1:19.570
15	1	-		Czechoslovakia	1:20.048
16	1	-	Cristina Bassani	Brazil	1:20.481
17	3	-			1:20.770
18	2	-		Brazil	1:20.819
19	3	-		Yugoslavia	1:21.170
20	1	-			1:21.446
21	1	-	Angela López		1:21.828
22	3	-	Nieves Panadell	Spain	1:21.920
23	1	-		Egypt	1:23.503
24	2	-			1:28.048

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Renate Vogel	East Germany	1:13.748	CR, ER[2]
	-	Lyubov Rusanova	Soviet Union	1:15.428
	-	Brigitte Schuchardt	East Germany	1:15.821
4	-	Christine Jarvis	Great Britain	1:16.358	NR[2]
5	-	Lynn Colella	United States	1:16.758
6	-	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	1:16.790
7	-	Petra Nows	West Germany	1:16.931
8	-	Marcia Morey	United States	1:17.049

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