Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m			women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men		women

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 26 and 29. 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	Dawn Fraser Australia (AUS)
Silver	Chris von Saltza United States (USA)
Bronze	Natalie Steward Great Britain (GBR)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Dawn Fraser	Australia	1:01.2	OR
	Chris von Saltza	United States	1:02.8
	Natalie Steward	Great Britain	1:03.1
4	Carolyn Wood	United States	1:03.4
5	Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai	Hungary	1:03.6
6	Erica Terpstra	Netherlands	1:04.3
7	Cocki van Engelsdorp Gastelaars	Netherlands	1:04.7
8	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:05.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-06.