Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between August 3 and 5, at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold Karen Harup
Denmark (DEN)
Silver Suzanne Zimmerman
United States (USA)
Bronze Judy-Joy Davies
Australia (AUS)

Results

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Karen Harup Denmark 1:14.4 OR
Suzanne Zimmerman United States 1:16.0
Judy-Joy Davies Australia 1:16.7
4 Ilona Novák Hungary 1:18.4
5 Ria van der Horst Netherlands 1:18.8
6 Dicky van Ekris Netherlands 1:18.9
7 Muriel Mellon United States 1:19.0
8 Greetje Gaillard Netherlands 1:19.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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