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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueOlympia Schwimmhalle
Date1 September (heats & semifinals)
2 September (final)
Competitors40 from 22 nations
Winning time1:13.58 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Cathy Carr  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Beverley Whitfield  Australia
Swimming at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 2 in the Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München.[1][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.

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 1:21.70
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

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union 1:15.89
2 Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss  Hungary 1:16.34
3 Dorothy Harrison  Great Britain 1:16.53
4 Vreni Eberle  West Germany 1:16.76
5 Renate Vogel  East Germany 1:16.87
6 Erika Rüegg  Switzerland 1:17.50
7 Christine Jarvis  Great Britain 1:17.58
8 Éva Kiss  Hungary 1:17.59

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Cathy Carr  United States 1:15.00 OR
2 Judy Melick  United States 1:16.22
3 Beverley Whitfield  Australia 1:16.26
4 Britt-Marie Smedh  Sweden 1:16.67
5 Lyudmila Porubayko  Soviet Union 1:16.85
6 Jeanette Pettersson  Sweden 1:17.54
7 Tetiana Prudnikova  Soviet Union 1:19.37
8 Sylvia Langer  East Germany 1:20.03

Key: OR = Olympic record

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Cathy Carr  United States 1:13.58 WR
2 Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union 1:14.99
3 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

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. ^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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