Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 2.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold Melissa Belote
 United States
Silver Andrea Gyarmati
 Hungary
Bronze Susie Atwood
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Melissa Belote  United States 1:06.60
2 Tina Lek'veishvili  Soviet Union 1:07.84
3 Marianne Vermaat  Netherlands 1:09.14
4 Susanne Niesner  Switzerland 1:09.16
5 Kazu Fujimura  Japan 1:09.81
6 Diana Ashton  Great Britain 1:10.90

Heat 2

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

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Christine Herbst  East Germany 1:07.96
2 Susie Atwood  United States 1:08.30
3 Debra Cain  Australia 1:08.81
4 Sylvie Le Noach  France 1:09.25
5 Nataliya Yershova  Soviet Union 1:09.26
6 Diana Olsson  Sweden 1:09.86
7 Christine Fulcher  Ireland 1:10.63
8 Diana Sutherland  Great Britain 1:12.12

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Andrea Gyarmati  Hungary 1:06.56
2 Enith Brigitha  Netherlands 1:06.71
3 Annegret Kober  West Germany 1:08.24
4 Angelika Kraus  West Germany 1:08.92
5 Susanne Hilger  East Germany 1:09.25
6 Jacqueline Brown  Great Britain 1:10.43
7 Ong Mei Lin  Malaysia 1:19.39

Heat 5

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

Semifinals

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Melissa Belote  United States 1:05.78 OR
2 Andrea Gyarmati  Hungary 1:06.26
3 Susie Atwood  United States 1:06.34
4 Karen Moe  United States 1:06.69
5 Wendy Cook-Hogg  Canada 1:06.70
6 Enith Brigitha  Netherlands 1:06.82
7 Christine Herbst  East Germany 1:07.27
8 Silke Pielen  West Germany 1:07.36

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2016.