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 December 3 and December 5. 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

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

Results

Heats

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	Beverly 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

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Shelley Mann	United States	1:11.0	OR
	Nancy Ramey	United States	1:11.9
	Mary Sears	United States	1:14.4
4	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:14.9
5	Beverly 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

External links

• Women 100m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne (AUS), retrieved 2013-12-30