Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly


The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Dana Shrader1:05.09Q
2Edeltraud Koch1:05.29Q
3Frieke Buys1:06.89Q
4Margrit Thomet1:07.28Q
5Brenda McGrory1:08.52
6Donatella Talpo-Schiavon1:08.98
7Susan Smith1:09.38
8Norma Amezcua1:12.23

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Andrea Gyarmati1:04.01OR, Q
2Roswitha Beier1:04.34Q
3Eva Wikner1:06.70Q
4Iryna Ustymenko1:07.44Q
5Aurora Chamorro1:08.39
6Leslie Cliff1:09.29
7Hsu Yue-yun1:11.67

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Deena Deardurff1:04.80Q
2Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel1:04.83 Q
3Noriko Asano1:04.97Q
4Sue Funch1:07.51
5Jean Jeavons1:07.64
6Věra Faitlová1:08.18
7Tay Chin Joo1:10.92
8Susana Saxlund1:11.90

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mayumi Aoki1:04.00OR, Q
2Ellie Daniel1:04.33 Q
3Gudrun Beckmann1:05.26Q
4Heike Nagel1:05.64Q
5Marilyn Corson1:06.26Q
6Judit Turóczy1:09.73
7Ileana Morales1:10.37

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Andrea Gyarmati1:03.80Q, OR
2Roswitha Beier1:04.36 Q
3Dana Shrader1:04.54Q
4Rosemarie Kother1:04.64
5Edeltraud Koch1:05.28
6Frieke Buys1:06.78
7Marilyn Corson1:06.78
8Iryna Ustymenko1:07.76

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Deena Deardurff1:03.97Q
2Mayumi Aoki1:04.11 Q
3Ellie Daniel1:04.25Q
4Gudrun Beckmann1:04.52Q
5Noriko Asano1:04.53Q
6Heike Hustede1:06.48
7Margrit Thomet1:07.12
8Eva Wikner1:07.53

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Mayumi Aoki1:03.34OR
Roswitha Beier1:03.61
Andrea Gyarmati1:03.73
4Deena Deardurff1:03.95
5Dana Shrader1:03.98
6Ellie Daniel1:04.08
7Gudrun Beckmann1:04.15
8Noriko Asano1:04.25

Key: OR = Olympic record