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Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 3.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. 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 Lynn Burke
 United States
Silver Natalie Steward
 Great Britain
Bronze Satoko Tanaka
 Japan

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 Laura Ranwell  South Africa 1:12.0 Q
2 Nadine Delache  France 1:12.5 Q
3 Larisa Viktorova  Soviet Union 1:12.8
4 Sara Barber  Canada 1:13.4
5 Gergaynia Beckett  Australia 1:13.7
6 Lynette Cooper  Rhodesia 1:15.8
7 Anneliese Rockenbach  Venezuela 1:18.6
8 Anna Temesvári  Hungary 1:21.5

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Lynn Burke  United States 1:09.4 Q
2 Ethel Ward Petersen  Denmark 1:12.6
3 Ingrid Schmidt  United Team of Germany 1:13.1
4 Marilyn Wilson  Australia 1:13.8
5 Rini Dobber  Netherlands 1:14.2
6 Lyudmila Klipova  Soviet Union 1:14.5
7 Doris Gontersweiler-Vetterli  Switzerland 1:19.6
8 Simone Theis  Luxembourg 1:23.9

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ria van Velsen  Netherlands 1:11.1 Q
2 Satoko Tanaka  Japan 1:11.5 Q
3 Natalie Steward  Great Britain 1:12.0 Q
4 Helga Schmidt-Neuber  United Team of Germany 1:13.3
5 Magda Dávid  Hungary 1:15.7
6 Arlette Faidiga  Italy 1:18.5
7 Anne Van Parijs  Belgium 1:20.4

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Sylvia Lewis  Great Britain 1:12.2 Q
2 Rosy Piacentini  France 1:12.2 Q
3 Nina Harmer  United States 1:13.8
4 Kirsten Michaelsen  Denmark 1:14.3
5 Dorothy Sutcliffe  Rhodesia 1:15.2
6 Daniela Serpilli  Italy 1:20.3
7 Lore Trittner  Austria 1:20.8

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Lynn Burke  United States 1:09.3 OR
2 Natalie Steward  Great Britain 1:10.8
3 Satoko Tanaka  Japan 1:11.4
4 Laura Ranwell  South Africa 1:11.4
5 Rosy Piacentini  France 1:11.4
6 Sylvia Lewis  Great Britain 1:11.8
7 Ria van Velsen  Netherlands 1:12.1
8 Nadine Delache  France 1:12.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
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