The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 29 and August 30. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Results
Heats Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Carolyn Schuler 1:09.8 2 Jan Andrew 1:10.3 3 Valentina Poznyak 1:13.2 4 Jean Oldroyd 1:14.2 5 Silvia Belmar 1:16.5 6 Hannelore Janele 1:18.4 Judith McHale DNS
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sheila Watt 1:12.3 2 Zinaida Belovetskaya 1:12.6 3 Kristina Larsson 1:13.0 4 Anna Beneck 1:18.4 5 Hillary Wilson 1:21.4 Dawn Fraser DNS Gertrudes Lozada DNS
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Carolyn Wood 1:11.1 2 Atie Voorbij 1:12.4 3 Heidi Eisenschmidt 1:14.6 4 Karin Larsson 1:15.0 5 Eulalia Martínez 1:17.9 6 Márta Egerváry 1:19.4 7 Colette Libourel 1:20.4
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Marianne Heemskerk 1:11.0 2 Bärbel Fuhrmann 1:13.2 3 Margaret Iwasaki 1:14.2 4 Shizue Miyabe 1:15.8 5 Sandra von Giese 1:16.3 6 Annie Caron 1:17.1 7 Anna Cechi 1:19.5
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Carolyn Schuler 1:09.5 OR Marianne Heemskerk 1:10.4 Jan Andrew 1:12.2 4 Sheila Watt 1:13.3 5 Atie Voorbij 1:13.3 6 Zinaida Belovetskaya 1:13.3 7 Kristina Larsson 1:13.6 Carolyn Wood DNF
Wood was in second place after 70 metres, but swallowed too much water, became confused, and stopped swimming.
Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record
References
External links Women 100m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1960 Roma (ITA) - Tuesday 30.08; retrieved 2015-01-03