Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place on December 3 and December 5. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Shelley Mann United States
Silver	Nancy Ramey United States
Bronze	Mary Sears United States

Results

Heats

Eight fastest swimmers from the heats advanced to the finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Shelley Mann	United States	1:11.2	Q
2	Nancy Ramey	United States	1:13.4	Q
3	Sara Barber	23x15px Canada	1:16.2	Q
4	Marta Skupilová	Czechoslovakia	1:17.7
5	Maureen Giles	Australia	1:19.4

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Beverly Bainbridge	Australia	1:14.4	Q
2	Mary Sears	United States	1:15.1	Q
3	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:15.2	Q
4	Beth Whittall	23x15px Canada	1:16.9	Q
5	Jutta Langenau	Germany	1:17.4	Q
6	Anne Morton	Great Britain	1:17.7
7	Odette Lusien-Casteur	France	1:19.8

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Shelley Mann	United States	1:11.0	OR
	Nancy Ramey	United States	1:11.9
	Mary Sears	United States	1:14.4
4	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:14.9
5	Beverly Bainbridge	Australia	1:15.2
6	Jutta Langenau	Germany	1:17.4
7	Beth Whittall	23x15px Canada	1:17.9
8	Sara Barber	23x15px Canada	1:18.4