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

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 freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between July 30 and August 2 at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Greta Andersen Denmark (DEN)
Silver	Ann Curtis United States (USA)
Bronze	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Netherlands (NED)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:06.3
	Ann Curtis	United States	1:06.5
	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:07.6
4	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.1
5	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.4
6	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:08.4
7	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.8
8	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:09.1

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-02.