Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1952 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 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 26 and 28 at the Swimming Stadium. 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	Katalin Szőke Hungary (HUN)
Silver	Hannie Termeulen Netherlands (NED)
Bronze	Judit Temes Hungary (HUN)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Katalin Szőke	Hungary	1:06.8
	Hannie Termeulen	Netherlands	1:07.0
	Judit Temes	Hungary	1:07.1
4	Joan Harrison	South Africa	1:07.1
5	Jody Alderson	United States	1:07.1
6	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:07.3
7	Marilee Stepan	United States	1:08.0
8	Angela Barnwell	Great Britain	1:08.6

Olympic Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1912: Fanny Durack
1920: Ethelda Bleibtrey
1924: Ethel Lackie
1928: Albina Osipowich
1932: Helene Madison
1936: Rie Mastenbroek
1948: Greta Andersen
1952: Katalin Szőke
1956: Dawn Fraser
1960: Dawn Fraser
1964: Dawn Fraser
1968: Jan Henne
1972: Sandy Neilson
1976: Kornelia Ender
1980: Barbara Krause
1984: Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer
1988: Kristin Otto
1992: Zhuang Yong
1996: Le Jingyi
2000: Inge de Bruijn
2004: Jodie Henry
2008: Britta Steffen
2012: Ranomi Kromowidjojo

References

1952 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-24.

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