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

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