Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 22 and 23. 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

Gold	Kaye Hall  United States
Silver	Elaine Tanner  Canada
Bronze	Jane Swagerty  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Yukiko Goushi	Japan	1:10.2
2	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.2
3	Kiki Caron	France	1:10.5
4	Bep Weeteling	Netherlands	1:12.5
5	Jacqueline Brown	Great Britain	1:13.0
6	Lidia Ramírez	Mexico	1:14.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	1:09.9
2	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:10.2
3	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:11.3
4	Yvette Hafner	Austria	1:11.8
5	Adriana Comolli	Argentina	1:13.8
6	Doris Meister	West Germany	1:14.1
7	Rosa Hasbún	El Salvador	1:20.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:07.6
2	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.4
3	María Corominas	Spain	1:10.7
4	Ulla Patrikka	Finland	1:11.6
5	Angelika Kraus	West Germany	1:12.6
6	Felicia Ospitaletche	Uruguay	1:17.7
7	Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Lien	South Vietnam	1:19.2

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kendis Moore	United States	1:10.5
2	Tatyana Savelyeva	Soviet Union	1:11.7
3	Anca Andreiu	Romania	1:11.8
4	Dianna Rickard	Australia	1:12.4
5	Anne Walton	Canada	1:13.0
6	María Procopio	Argentina	1:15.9
7	Shen Bao-ni	Chinese Taipei	1:21.5

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Sylvie Canet	France	1:10.4
2	Tina Lek'veishvili	Soviet Union	1:11.3
3	Bénédicte Duprez	France	1:11.6
4	Patricia Sentous	Argentina	1:13.5
5	Pru Chapman	New Zealand	1:15.2
6	Carmen Ferracuti	El Salvador	1:17.8

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kaye Hall	United States	1:09.8
2	Cobie Buter	Netherlands	1:10.0
3	Mária Balla-Lantos	Hungary	1:11.9
4	Coby Sikkens	Netherlands	1:11.9
5	Wendy Burrell	Great Britain	1:12.0
6	Francine Dauven	Belgium	1:15.3
7	Judit Bárányi	Hungary	1:16.0

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kaye Hall	United States	1:06.2	WR
	Elaine Tanner	Canada	1:06.7
	Jane Swagerty	United States	1:08.1
4	Kendis Moore	United States	1:08.3
5	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	1:09.1
6	Lynne Watson	Australia	1:09.1
7	Sylvie Canet	France	1:09.3
8	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	1:10.6

Key: WR = World record