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

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 freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 18 and 19. 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	Jan Henne United States (USA)
Silver	Susan Pedersen United States (USA)
Bronze	Linda Gustavson United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Jan Henne	United States	1:00.0
	Susan Pedersen	United States	1:00.3
	Linda Gustavson	United States	1:00.3
4	Marion Lay	Canada	1:00.5
5	Martina Grunert	East Germany	1:01.0
6	Alexandra Jackson	Great Britain	1:01.0
7	Mirjana Šegrt	Yugoslavia	1:01.5
8	Judit Turóczy	Hungary	1:01.6

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-03.