Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 26 and 28 at the Swimming Stadium. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Katalin Szőke  Hungary
Silver	Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands
Bronze	Judit Temes  Hungary

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Katalin Szőke	Hungary	1:06.8
	Hannie Termeulen	Netherlands	1:07.0
	Judit Temes	Hungary	1:07.1
4	Joan Harrison	23x15px South Africa	1:07.1
5	Jody Alderson	United States	1:07.1
6	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:07.3
7	Marilee Stepan	United States	1:08.0
8	Angela Barnwell	Great Britain	1:08.6

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Women's 100 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-24.