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

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 9, 1973
Competitors	35 from 25 nations
Winning time	57.542
Medalists
Kornelia Ender    East Germany   Shirley Babashoff    United States   Enith Brigitha    Netherlands
1975 →

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 9.

Records[]

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

World record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	58.12	Utrecht, Netherlands	18 August 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
8 September	Heat 1	Andrea Eife	East Germany	59.61	CR
8 September	Heat 3	Shirley Babashoff	United States	59.40	CR
8 September	Heat 4	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	59.16	CR
8 September	Final	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	57.54	WR

Results[]

Heats[]

35 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Enith Brigitha		59.166	Q, CR
2	3	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	59.406	Q, CR
3	1	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	59.610	Q, CR
4	5	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	59.695	Q
5	5	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	59.830	Q
6	2	-	Kathy Heddy	United States	1:00.000	Q
7	4	-	Françoise Monod		1:00.461	Q
8	1	-	Guylaine Berger	France	1:00.542	Q
9	5	-	Grethe Mathiesen	Norway	1:00.825
10	1	-	Laura Podesta	Italy	1:01.021
11	3	-	Eva Andersson	Sweden	1:01.126
12	4	-	Angela Steinbach	West Germany	1:01.153
13	1	-	Lucy Burle	Brazil	1:01.351
14	3	-			1:01.557
15	5	-	Wendy Cook	Canada	1:01.708
16	5	-		Soviet Union	1:01.716
17	4	-	Debra Cain	Australia	1:01.990
18	3	-		Australia	1:02.067
19	2	-	Chantal Schertz	France	1:02.134
20	2	-	Gunilla Lundberg	Sweden	1:02.173
21	4	-	Magdolna Patóh	Hungary	1:02.874
22	4	-		Czechoslovakia	1:02.905
23	2	-		Yugoslavia	1:03.039
24	3	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	1:03.198
25	5	-			1:03.214
26	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	1:03.237
27	5	-		Poland	1:03.694
28	3	-			1:04.486
29	4	-			1:04.630
30	4	-	Marianela Huen		1:05.195
31	2	-			1:06.450
32	3	-	María Mock		1:07.092
33	1	-	Myriam Mizouni		1:07.332
34	5	-			1:08.946
35	1	-			1:17.303

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	57.542	WR
	5	Shirley Babashoff	United States	58.876
	4	Enith Brigitha		58.879
4	3	Andrea Eife	East Germany	58.931
5	8	Guylaine Berger	France	59.518
6	2	Jutta Weber	West Germany	59.585
7	7	Kathy Heddy	United States	59.900
8	1	Françoise Monod		1:01.240

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