Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
Kornelia Ender   East Germany   Petra Priemer   East Germany   Enith Brigitha   Netherlands

Swimming events at the 1976 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
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The Women's 100 metre Freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, with the final on July 18, 1976.

Results

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	55.65 WR
	Petra Priemer (GDR)	56.49
	Enith Brigitha (NED)	56.65
4.	Kim Peyton (USA)	56.81
5.	Shirley Babashoff (USA)	56.95
6.	Claudia Hempel (GDR)	56.99
7.	Jill Sterkel (USA)	57.06
8.	Jutta Weber (FRG)	57.26

Semi Finals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Kim Peyton (USA)	56.89
2.	Enith Brigitha (NED)	57.08
3.	Jill Sterkel (USA)	57.19
4.	Barbara Clark (CAN)	57.72
5.	Gail Amundrud (CAN)	58.10
6.	Rebecca Perrott (NZL)	58.13
7.	Ineke Ran (NED)	58.50
8.	Guylaine Berger (FRA)	58.62

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	55.82
2.	Shirley Babashoff (USA)	56.95
3.	Claudia Hempel (GDR)	57.05
4.	Petra Priemer (GDR)	57.21
5.	Jutta Weber (FRG)	57.35
6.	Anne Jardin (CAN)	57.78
7.	Lene Jenssen (NOR)	58.10
8.	Jenny Tate (AUS)	58.88

Qualifying Heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Petra Priemer (GDR)	56.95
2.	Rebecca Perrott (NZL)	57.66
3.	Pia Mårtensson (SWE)	59.15
4.	Ida Hansson (SWE)	1:00.22
5.	Shelley Cramer (ISV)	1:00.67
6.	Myriam Mizouni (TUN)	1:02.42

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Anne Jardin (CAN)	57.61
2.	Jutta Weber (FRG)	57.71
3.	Sachiko Yamazaki (JPN)	1:00.43
4.	Regina Nissen (FRG)	1:00.60
5.	Lesleigh Harvey (AUS)	1:01.59
6.	Deirdre Sheehan (IRL)	1:02.11
7.	Vilborg Sverrisdóttir (ISL)	1:03.26

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Jill Sterkel (USA)	57.41
2.	Guylaine Berger (FRA)	58.79
3.	Irina Vlasova (URS)	58.99
4.	Elaine Gray (GBR)	1:00.31
5.	Ivis Poleo (VEN)	1:03.07
6.	Karen Robertson (HKG)	1:04.29

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Shirley Babashoff (USA)	58.06
2.	Barbara Clark (CAN)	58.29
3.	Susan Edmondson (GBR)	1:00.64
4.	Berber Kamstra (NED)	1:00.68
5.	Geert Boekhout (BEL)	1:00.76
6.	Marianela Huen (VEN)	1:02.51
7.	Georgina Osorio (PAN)	1:03.88

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Claudia Hempel (GDR)	57.35
2.	Lene Jenssen (NOR)	58.10
3.	Jenny Tate (AUS)	58.78
4.	Marina Klyuchnikova (URS)	59.30
5.	Rachaniw Bulakul (THA)	1:01.33
6.	Rossana Juncos (ARG)	1:01.89

RANK	HEAT 6	TIME
1.	Enith Brigitha (NED)	56.61
2.	Kim Peyton (USA)	57.26
3.	Ineke Ran (NED)	58.08
4.	Drue Le Guier (AUS)	59.40
5.	Beate Jasch (FRG)	1:00.80
6.	María Paris (CRC)	1:01.53

RANK	HEAT 7	TIME
1.	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	55.81
2.	Gail Amundrud (CAN)	58.01
3.	Lyubov Kobzova (URS)	58.93
4.	Anne Richard (BEL)	59.11
5.	Diana Olsson (SWE)	1:00.46
6.	Susana Coppo (ARG)	1:02.46
7.	Jane Fayer (PUR)	1:02.89

References

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