Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 13 and 14. 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	Cathy Ferguson United States
Silver	Kiki Caron France
Bronze	Ginny Duenkel United States

Results

Heats

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Cathy Ferguson	United States	1:07.7	WR
	Kiki Caron	France	1:07.9
	Ginny Duenkel	United States	1:08.0
4	Satoko Tanaka	Japan	1:08.6
5	Nina Harmer	United States	1:09.4
6	Linda Ludgrove	Great Britain	1:09.5
7	Eileen Weir	23x15px Canada	1:09.8
8	Jill Norfolk	Great Britain	1:11.2