Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 12 and 13. 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	Sharon Stouder United States (USA)
Bronze	Kathy Ellis United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Dawn Fraser	Australia	59.5	OR
	Sharon Stouder	United States	59.9
	Kathy Ellis	United States	1:00.8
4	Erica Terpstra	Netherlands	1:01.8
5	Marion Lay	Canada	1:02.2
6	Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai	Hungary	1:02.4
7	Ann-Christine Hagberg	Sweden	1:02.5
8	Lyn Bell	Australia	1:02.7

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1964 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-20.