Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1960 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
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 3. 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	Lynn Burke United States
Silver	Natalie Steward Great Britain
Bronze	Satoko Tanaka Japan

Results

Heats

Eight fastest swimmers from the heats advanced to the finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Laura Ranwell	23x15px South Africa	1:12.0	Q
2	Nadine Delache	France	1:12.5	Q
3	Larisa Viktorova	Soviet Union	1:12.8
4	Sara Barber	23x15px Canada	1:13.4
5	Gerganiya Beckitt	Australia	1:13.7
6	Lynette Cooper	Rhodesia	1:15.8
7	Anneliese Rockenbach	23x15px Venezuela	1:18.6
8	Anna Temesvári	Hungary	1:21.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lynn Burke	United States	1:09.4	Q
2	Ethel Ward Petersen	Denmark	1:12.6
3	Ingrid Schmidt	Germany	1:13.1
4	Marilyn Wilson	Australia	1:13.8
5	Rini Dobber	Netherlands	1:14.2
6	Lyudmila Klipova	Soviet Union	1:14.5
7	Doris Gontersweiler-Vetterli	Switzerland	1:19.6
8	Simone Theis	Luxembourg	1:23.9

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ria van Velsen	Netherlands	1:11.1	Q
2	Satoko Tanaka	Japan	1:11.5	Q
3	Natalie Steward	Great Britain	1:12.0	Q
4	Helga Schmidt-Neuber	Germany	1:13.3
5	Magda Dávid	Hungary	1:15.7
6	Arletta Faidiga	Italy	1:18.5
7	Anne Van Parijs	Belgium	1:20.4

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sylvia Lewis	Great Britain	1:12.2	Q
2	Rosy Piacentini	France	1:12.2	Q
3	Nina Harmer	United States	1:13.8
4	Kirsten Michaelsen	Denmark	1:14.3
5	Dorothy Sutcliffe	Rhodesia	1:15.2
6	Daniela Serpilli	Italy	1:20.3
7	Lore Trittner	Austria	1:20.8

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lynn Burke	United States	1:09.3	OR
	Natalie Steward	Great Britain	1:10.8
	Satoko Tanaka	Japan	1:11.4
4	Laura Ranwell	23x15px South Africa	1:11.4
5	Rosy Piacentini	France	1:11.4
6	Sylvia Lewis	Great Britain	1:11.8
7	Ria van Velsen	Netherlands	1:12.1
8	Nadine Delache	France	1:12.4