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

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 2. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Cathy Carr  United States
Silver	Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union
Bronze	Beverley Whitfield  Australia

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Porubayko	Soviet Union	1:17.14
2	Renate Vogel	East Germany	1:17.33
3	Beverley Whitfield	Australia	1:17.59
4	Tetiana Prudnikova	Soviet Union	1:18.11
5	Yoko Yamamoto	Japan	1:18.94
6	Ann O'Connor	Ireland	1:19.13
7	Judith Hudson	Australia	1:19.78
8	Shlomit Nir	Israel	1:20.90

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Judy Melick	United States	1:16.75
2	Vreni Eberle	West Germany	1:17.67
3	Lynn Vidali	United States	1:18.80
4	Zuzana Marková	Czechoslovakia	1:18.88
5	Jaroslava Slavíčková	Czechoslovakia	1:19.12
6	Diana Harris	Great Britain	1:19.19
7	Winnie Nielsen	Denmark	1:23.00
8	Leonor Urueta	Mexico	1:23.21

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Harrison	Great Britain	1:16.99
2	Christine Jarvis	Great Britain	1:18.27
3	Sylvia Langer	East Germany	1:18.29
4	Brigitte Schuchardt	East Germany	1:18.62
5	Dagmar Sierck	West Germany	1:18.80
6	Jane Wright	Canada	1:20.56
7	Cristina Teixeira	Brazil	1:20.58
8	Ani Jane Mugrditchian	Lebanon	1:29.71

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Halyna Prozumenshchykova-Stepanova	Soviet Union	1:17.18
2	Jeanette Pettersson	Sweden	1:17.83
3	Éva Kiss	Hungary	1:18.57
4	Alie te Riet	Netherlands	1:18.79
5	Tineke Hofland	Netherlands	1:19.38
6	Patricia Siewert	West Germany	1:19.54
7	Mairi Ioannidou	Greece	1:21.705
8	Lee Yue-hwan	Chinese Taipei	1:25.47

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Carr	United States	1:16.01
2	Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss	Hungary	1:16.52
3	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	1:17.21
4	Erika Rüegg	Switzerland	1:17.95
5	Sylvia Dockerill	Canada	1:18.64
6	Marian Stuart	Canada	1:18.69
7	Béatrice Mottoulle	Belgium	1:20.79
8	Ana Elena de la Portilla	Mexico	1:21.61

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Cathy Carr	United States	1:13.58	WR
	Galina Prozumenshchikova	Soviet Union	1:14.99
	Beverley Whitfield	Australia	1:15.73
4	Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss	Hungary	1:16.26
5	Judy Melick	United States	1:16.34
6	Vreni Eberle	West Germany	1:17.16
7	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	1:17.19
8	Dorothy Harrison	Great Britain	1:17.49

Key: WR = World record