Olympian Database
Women's 100 m freestyle - Swimming |  | ||||
 Women's 100 m freestyle 1956
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| Final | |||||
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Dawn Fraser |  |
AUS | 1.02,0 | WR |
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Lorraine Crapp | |
AUS | 1.02,3 | |
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Faith Leech | |
AUS | 1.05,1 | |
| 4. | Joan Rosazza |  |
USA | 1.05,2 | |
| 5. | Virginia Grant |  |
CAN | 1.05,4 | |
| 6. | Shelley Mann | |
USA | 1.05,6 | |
| 7. | Marrion Roe |  |
NZL | 1.05,6 | |
| 8. | Natalie Myburgh |  |
RSA | 1.05,8 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | Dawn Fraser | |
AUS | 1.03,0 | q |
| 2. | Faith Leech | |
AUS | 1.05,2 | q |
| 3. | Joan Rosazza | |
USA | 1.05,9 | q |
| 4. | Natalie Myburgh | |
RSA | 1.06,0 | q |
| 5. | Valeria Gyenge |  |
HUN | 1.06,4 | |
| 6. | Zsussa Ördög | |
HUN | 1.06,9 | |
| 7. | Helen Stewart | |
CAN | 1.06,9 | |
| 8. | Birgit Klomp |  |
GER | 1.07,9 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Lorraine Crapp | |
AUS | 1.03,1 | q |
| 2. | Marrion Roe | |
NZL | 1.05,3 | q |
| 3. | Virginia Grant | |
CAN | 1.05,5 | q |
| 4. | Shelley Mann | |
USA | 1.05,5 | q |
| 5. | Nancy Simons | |
USA | 1.06,1 | |
| 6. | Kate Jobson |  |
SWE | 1.06,1 | |
| 7. | Susan Roberts | |
RSA | 1.06,6 | |
| 8. | Jeanette Myburgh | |
RSA | 1.06,7 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | Lorraine Crapp | | AUS | 1.03,4 | OR |
| 2. | Joan Rosazza | | USA | 1.05,5 | q |
| 3. | Helen Stewart | | CAN | 1.07,1 | q |
| 4. | Jeanette Myburgh | | RSA | 1.07,1 | q |
| 5. | Anita Hellström | | SWE | 1.08,5 | |
| 6. | Irene Sweyd |  | BEL | 1.08,9 | |
| 7. | Winifred Griffin | | NZL | 1.10,4 | |
| 8. | Margaret Northrop |  | KEN | 1.12,8 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Nancy Simons | | USA | 1.06,5 | q |
| 2. | Katalin Szöke | | HUN | 1.08,0 | |
| 3. | Katharine Jansen | | GER | 1.08,3 | |
| 4. | Odile Couaux |  | FRA | 1.08,6 | |
| 5. | Fearne Ewart |  | GBR | 1.08,8 | |
| 6. | Setsuko Shimada |  | JPN | 1.11,8 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | Marrion Roe | | NZL | 1.05,9 | q |
| 2. | Valeria Gyenge | | HUN | 1.06,6 | q |
| 3. | Birgit Klomp | | GER | 1.07,7 | q |
| 4. | Heda Frost | | FRA | 1.08,8 | |
| 5. | Blanca Barron Serrano |  | MEX | 1.09,5 | |
| 6. | Yoshiko Sato | | JPN | 1.10,3 | |
| 7. | Gertrudez Lozada |  | PHI | 1.13,7 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 4 | |||||
| 1. | Faith Leech | | AUS | 1.04,9 | q |
| 2. | Zsussa Ördög | | HUN | 1.06,5 | q |
| 3. | Kate Jobson | | SWE | 1.07,3 | q |
| 4. | Susan Roberts | | RSA | 1.07,9 | q |
| 5. | Christel Steffin | | GER | 1.08,1 | |
| 6. | Hitomi Jinno | | JPN | 1.08,8 | |
| 7. | Gladys Priestley | | CAN | 1.09,2 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 5 | |||||
| 1. | Dawn Fraser | | AUS | 1.02,4 | EWR |
| 2. | Natalie Myburgh | | RSA | 1.05,1 | q |
| 3. | Virginia Grant | | CAN | 1.05,1 | q |
| 4. | Shelley Mann | | USA | 1.05,4 | q |
| 5. | Frances Hogben | | GBR | 1.08,5 | |
| 6. | Ginette Sendral | | FRA | 1.09,9 | |
| 7. | Shoshana Rivner |  | ISR | 1.10,3 | |
| Women's 100 m freestyle - Swimming - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics
Event Format:
Swimmers competed in preliminary heats, semifinals and final. Normally eight swimmers competed in each heat. The 16 swimmers with the best time in the preliminary heats advanced to the semifinals. From the semifinals the eight swimmers with the best time in the semifinals advanced to the final. Event facts: Women's 100 m freestyle competition was held at the Swimming Stadium and 35 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Women's 100 m freestyle - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
