The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 2. 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 Notes 1 Melissa Belote 1:06.60 2 Tina Lek'veishvili 1:07.84 3 Marianne Vermaat 1:09.14 4 Susanne Niesner 1:09.16 5 Kazu Fujimura 1:09.81 6 Diana Ashton 1:10.90

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Wendy Cook-Hogg 1:07.00 2 Sue Lewis 1:08.06 3 Deborah Palmer 1:08.68 4 Annemarie Groen 1:09.55 5 Susan Hunter 1:10.06 6 Kikuyo Ishii 1:10.44 7 Ildikó Szekeres 1:11.20 8 Felicia Ospitaletche 1:13.99

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Christine Herbst 1:07.96 2 Susie Atwood 1:08.30 3 Debra Cain 1:08.81 4 Sylvie Le Noach 1:09.25 5 Nataliya Yershova 1:09.26 6 Diana Olsson 1:09.86 7 Christine Fulcher 1:10.63 8 Diana Sutherland 1:12.12

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Andrea Gyarmati 1:06.56 2 Enith Brigitha 1:06.71 3 Annegret Kober 1:08.24 4 Angelika Kraus 1:08.92 5 Susanne Hilger 1:09.25 6 Jacqueline Brown 1:10.43 7 Ong Mei Lin 1:19.39

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Donna-Marie Gurr 1:07.45 2 Karen Moe-Thornton 1:07.69 3 Silke Pielen 1:07.70 4 Zdenka Gašparač 1:09.72 5 Cathy Raftery 1:09.72 6 Patricia López 1:12.13 7 María Cecilia Vargas 1:12.91 8 Pat Chan 1:14.24

Semifinals These took place on Friday 1 September at 17:00. +Semifinal 1 resultsRankAthleteCountryTimeNotes1Melissa Belote1:06.08OR2Susie Atwood1:06.263Karen Moe1:06.274Wendy Cook-Hogg1:06.895Tina Lek'veishvili1:07.616Sue Lewis1:07.817Debra Cain1:08.518Marianne Vermaat1:09.11 +Semifinal 2 resultsRankAthleteCountryTimeNotes1Andrea Gyarmati1:06.392Enith Brigitha1:06.493Silke Pielen1:06.984Christine Herbst1:07.345Donna-Marie Gurr1:07.376Annegret Kober1:08.017Deborah Palmer1:08.298Angelika Kraus1:09.10

Final This took place on Saturday 2 September at 17:50. Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Melissa Belote 1:05.78 OR Andrea Gyarmati 1:06.26 Susie Atwood 1:06.34 4 Karen Moe 1:06.69 5 Wendy Cook-Hogg 1:06.70 6 Enith Brigitha 1:06.82 7 Christine Herbst 1:07.27 8 Silke Pielen 1:07.36

Key: OR = Olympic record

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