Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
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 breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between October 18 and October 19. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool. This was the first appearance for this event in the Olympics for the women swimmers.

Medalists

Gold	Đurđica Bjedov  Yugoslavia
Silver	Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union
Bronze	Sharon Wichman  United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Heat 1	1	Catie Ball	United States	1:18.8
2	Joanne Barnes	Australia	1:19.1
3	Sue Jones	United States	1:19.3
4	Dorothy Harrison	Great Britain	1:19.6
5	Christine Filippovits	Austria	1:19.9
6	Tamara Oynick	Mexico	1:22.7
7	Liana Vicens	Puerto Rico	1:25.2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Heat 2	1	Djurdjica Bjedov	Yugoslavia	1:17.7
2	Alla Grebennikova	Soviet Union	1:19.3
3	Shlomit Nir	Israel	1:20.9
4	Ann O'Connor	Ireland	1:21.1
5	Maria Janus	Netherlands	1:21.9
6	Tamara Orejuela	Ecuador	1:26.8
7	Celia Jokisch	El Salvador	1:46.6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Heat 3	1	Sharon Wichman	United States	1:18.3
2	Judy Playfair	Australia	1:19.2
3	Yvonne Brage	Sweden	1:20.8
4	Verena Eberle	Germany	1:22.6
5	Victoria Casas	Mexico	1:24.7
6	Maria Moreno	El Salvador	1:27.2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Heat 4	1	Uta Frommater	West Germany	1:18.5
2	Galina Prozumenschikova	Soviet Union	1:18.6
3	Svetlana Babanina	Soviet Union	1:20.2
4	Jill Slattery	Great Britain	1:20.7
5	Susan McKenzie	Australia	1:20.9
6	Ellen Inguadottir	Iceland	1:22.6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Heat 5	1	Ana Norbis	Uruguay	1:17.4
2	Kiyoe Nakagawa	Japan	1:18.2
3	Diana Harris	Great Britain	1:19.8
4	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	1:20.7
5	Marta Egervary	Hungary	1:22.6
6	Arlette Wilmes	Luxembourg	1:24.4
7	Maria Castro	El Salvador	1:36.9

Semifinals

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Semifinal 1	1	Sharon Wichman	United States	1:16.8
2	Djurdjica Bjedov	Yugoslavia	1:17.1
3	Galina Prozumenschikova	Soviet Union	1:17.5
4	Joanne Barnes	Australia	1:18.4
5	Alla Grebennikova	Soviet Union	1:18.6
6	Christine Filippovits	Austria	1:18.9
7	Dorothy Harrison	Great Britain	1:19.6
8	Jill Slattery	Great Britain	1:19.8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
Semifinal 2	1	Ana Norbis	Uruguay	1:16.7
2	Catie Ball	United States	1:16.8
3	Uta Frommater	West Germany	1:16.9
4	Kiyoe Nakagawa	Japan	1:17.7
5	Svetlana Babanina	Soviet Union	1:18.3
6	Sue Jones	United States	1:18.6
7	Judy Playfair	Australia	1:19.3
8	Diana Harris	Great Britain	1:19.3

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Đurđica Bjedov	Yugoslavia	1:15.8	OR
	Galina Prozumenshchikova	Soviet Union	1:15.9
	Sharon Wichman	United States	1:16.1
4	Uta Frommater	West Germany	1:16.2
5	Catie Ball	United States	1:16.7
6	Kiyoe Nakagawa	Japan	1:17.0
7	Svetlana Babanina	Soviet Union	1:17.2
8	Ana María Norbis	Uruguay	1:17.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m breaststroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-05.
• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m breaststroke, from http://library.la84.org/; retrieved 2016-04-02.