Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place on 3 and 5 December.[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

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Gold Shelley Mann
 United States
Silver Nancy Ramey
 United States
Bronze Mary Sears
 United States

Results

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Heats

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Eight fastest swimmers from the heats advanced to the finals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Shelley Mann  United States 1:11.2 Q
2 Nancy Ramey  United States 1:13.4 Q
3 Sara Barber  Canada 1:16.2 Q
4 Marta Skupilová  Czechoslovakia 1:17.7
5 Maureen Giles  Australia 1:19.4

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Beverley Bainbridge  Australia 1:14.4 Q
2 Mary Sears  United States 1:15.1 Q
3 Mária Littomeritzky  Hungary 1:15.2 Q
4 Beth Whittall  Canada 1:16.9 Q
5 Jutta Langenau  United Team of Germany 1:17.4 Q
6 Anne Morton  Great Britain 1:17.7
7 Odette Lusien-Casteur  France 1:19.8

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Shelley Mann  United States 1:11.0 OR
2 Nancy Ramey  United States 1:11.9
3 Mary Sears  United States 1:14.4
4 Mária Littomeritzky  Hungary 1:14.9
5 Beverley Bainbridge  Australia 1:15.2
6 Jutta Langenau  United Team of Germany 1:17.4
7 Beth Whittall  Canada 1:17.9
8 Sara Barber  Canada 1:18.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
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