Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 26 and 28 July at the Swimming Stadium.[1] 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

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Gold Katalin Szőke
 Hungary
Silver Hannie Termeulen
 Netherlands
Bronze Judit Temes
 Hungary

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher  Netherlands 1:06.7
2 Ilona Novák  Hungary 1:07.7
3 Elisabeth Rechlin  Germany 1:08.5
4 Mette Ove Petersen  Denmark 1:09.6
5 Maria Nardi  Italy 1:13.2
6 Sadako Yamashita  Japan 1:13.2
7 Cynthia Eager  Hong Kong 1:16.8

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands 1:07.3
2 Greta Andersen  Denmark 1:08.0
3 Judy Roberts  United States 1:08.2
4 Marianne Lundquist  Sweden 1:10.8
5 Vera Schäferkordt  Germany 1:10.9
6 Romana Calligaris  Italy 1:11.0
7 Dolly Nazir  India 1:24.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Katalin Szőke  Hungary 1:07.1
2 Koosje van Voorn  Netherlands 1:07.4
3 Josette Arène  France 1:09.1
4 Jean Botham  Great Britain 1:10.5
5 Fumiko Sakaguchi  Japan 1:14.6
6 Irene Strong  Canada 1:15.1

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joan Harrison  South Africa 1:06.5
2 Jody Alderson  United States 1:07.4
3 Angela Barnwell  Great Britain 1:07.6
4 Ingegerd Fredin  Sweden 1:08.0
5 Denise Norton  Australia 1:11.8
6 Gladys Priestley  Canada 1:13.4
7 Raili Riuttala  Finland 1:13.5

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Judit Temes  Hungary 1:05.5 OR
2 Ragnhild Hveger  Denmark 1:08.6
3 Maud Berglund  Sweden 1:09.8
4 Lillian Preece  Great Britain 1:10.0
5 Ritva Järvinen  Finland 1:11.5
6 Sybille Verckist  Belgium 1:13.7
7 Shizue Miyabe  Japan 1:16.6

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marilee Stepan  United States 1:07.7
2 Marjorie McQuade  Australia 1:07.9
3 Ana María Schultz  Argentina 1:10.6
4 Gaby Tanguy  France 1:10.6
5 Kay McNamee  Canada 1:12.9
6 Susy Vaterlaus  Switzerland 1:16.8
7 Ritva Koivula  Finland 1:17.3

Semifinals

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Semifinal 1

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jody Alderson  United States 1:06.6 Q
2 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher  Netherlands 1:06.7 Q
3 Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands 1:07.1 Q
4 Marilee Stepan  United States 1:07.4 Q
5 Judit Temes  Hungary 1:07.4 Q
6 Ragnhild Hveger  Denmark 1:07.7
7 Marjorie McQuade  Australia 1:08.2
8 Ingegerd Fredin  Sweden 1:08.7

Semifinal 2

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joan Harrison  South Africa 1:07.2 Q
2 Katalin Szőke  Hungary 1:07.2 Q
3 Angela Barnwell  Great Britain 1:07.2 Q
4 Ilona Novák  Hungary 1:07.8
5 Koosje van Voorn  Netherlands 1:08.1
6 Greta Andersen  Denmark 1:08.2
7 Judy Roberts  United States 1:08.2
8 Elisabeth Rechlin  Germany 1:08.5

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Katalin Szőke  Hungary 1:06.8
2 Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands 1:07.0
3 Judit Temes  Hungary 1:07.1
4 Joan Harrison  South Africa 1:07.1
5 Jody Alderson  United States 1:07.1
6 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher  Netherlands 1:07.3
7 Marilee Stepan  United States 1:08.0
8 Angela Barnwell  Great Britain 1:08.6

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2016.