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

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	30 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:02.539 CR
Medalists
Kornelia Ender    East Germany   Rosemarie Kother    East Germany   Mayumi Aoki    Japan
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The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records[]

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

World record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	1:02.31	East Berlin, East Germany	14 July 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
6 September	Heat	Debra Cain	Australia	1:07.776	CR
6 September	Heat	Mayumi Aoki	Japan	1:03.803	CR
6 September	Heat	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	1:02.951	CR
6 September	Final	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	1:02.539	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

30 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	1:02.951	Q, CR
2	2	-	Mayumi Aoki		1:03.803	Q, CR
3	2	-	Deena Deardurff	United States	1:04.135	Q
4	4	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	1:04.140	Q
5	4	-		United States	1:04.330	Q
6	3	-	Gudrun Beckmann	West Germany	1:05.336	Q
7	4	-	Donatella Talpo	Italy	1:05.830	Q
8	4	-	Gunilla Andersson	Sweden	1:05.970	Q
9	3	-		Soviet Union	1:06.383
10	3	-		Australia	1:06.626
11	4	-	Anca Groza	Romania	1:06.950
12	2	-			1:07.069
13	1	-	Debra Cain	Australia	1:07.776	CR
14	3	-	Patti Stenhouse	Canada	1:07.792
15	1	-	Vera Faitlova	Czechoslovakia	1:07.935
16	4	-	Ileana Morales		1:08.100
17	1	-	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	1:08.198
18	3	-	Rosemary Peres	Brazil	1:08.405
19	4	-		Yugoslavia	1:08.490
20	2	-	Aurora Chamorro	Spain	1:08.587
21	3	-		Italy	1:08.613
22	1	-	Irène Debrunner		1:08.672
23	4	-			1:09.230
24	2	-	Marianela Huen		1:09.401
25	2	-			1:09.443
26	3	-		Hungary	1:09.514
27	1	-		Bulgaria	1:09.617
28	1	-		Brazil	1:09.755
29	2	-		Canada	1:09.867
30	1	-	María Mock		1:10.562

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	1:02.539	CR
	4	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	1:02.687
	5	Mayumi Aoki		1:03.739
4	3	Deena Deardurff	United States	1:04.272
5	2		United States	1:04.329
6	7	Gudrun Beckmann	West Germany	1:04.937
7	1	Donatella Talpo	Italy	1:06.353
8	8	Gunilla Andersson	Sweden	1:06.386

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