The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 13 and 14. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Results
Heats Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Nina Harmer 1:09.8 2 Satoko Tanaka 1:10.0 3 Linda Ludgrove 1:10.3 4 Helga Schmidt-Neuber 1:11.4 5 Helen Kennedy 1:12.5 6 Belinda Woosley 1:15.3 7 Jovina Tseng 1:20.7
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ginny Duenkel 1:08.9 2 Eileen Weir 1:09.7 3 Michiko Kihara 1:11.1 4 Kirsten Michaelsen 1:11.2 5 Tatyana Savelyeva 1:11.8 6 Mária Balla-Lantos 1:12.0 7 Bep Weeteling 1:13.1 8 Ursula Seitz 1:13.3
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Cathy Ferguson 1:08.8 2 Françoise Borie 1:11.8 3 Petra Nerger 1:12.1 4 Sylvia Lewis 1:12.2 5 Ria van Velsen 1:12.2 6 Marlene Dayman 1:12.9 7 Anneliese Rockenbach 1:14.1 8 Margaret Harding 1:19.5
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kiki Caron 1:08.5 2 Jill Norfolk 1:10.6 3 Ingrid Schmidt 1:11.1 4 Nataliya Mikhaylova 1:11.4 5 Corrie Winkel 1:11.6 6 Nanette Duncan 1:12.4 7 Susana Peper 1:13.2 8 Jeon Ok-ja 1:21.7
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Cathy Ferguson 1:07.7 WR Kiki Caron 1:07.9 Ginny Duenkel 1:08.0 4 Satoko Tanaka 1:08.6 5 Nina Harmer 1:09.4 6 Linda Ludgrove 1:09.5 7 Eileen Weir 1:09.8 8 Jill Norfolk 1:11.2
Key: WR = World record
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