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

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and 3.[1] 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	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	Canada	1:13.4
5	Gerganiya Beckitt	Australia	1:13.7
6	Lynette Cooper	Rhodesia	1:15.8
7	Anneliese Rockenbach	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	United Team of 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	United Team of 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	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

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

1. "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2016.

External links

• Women 100m Backstroke Swimming Olympic Games 1960 Roma (ITA), retrieved 2013-12-30