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

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on October 14 and October 16.[1] 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.

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Date	14 October 1964 (heats) 15 October 1964 (semifinals) 16 October 1964 (final)
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:04.7 (WR)
Medalists
Sharon Stouder  United States Ada Kok  Netherlands Kathy Ellis  United States

Medalists

Gold	Sharon Stouder  United States
Silver	Ada Kok  Netherlands
Bronze	Kathy Ellis  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kathy Ellis	United States	1:07.8	Q, OR
2	Eiko Takahashi	Japan	1:08.4	Q
3	Judy Gegan	Great Britain	1:10.8	Q
4	Adrie Lasterie	Netherlands	1:11.2
5	Linda McGill	Australia	1:11.7
6	Ursel Brunner	United Team of Germany	1:13.6
7	Molly Tay	Malaysia	1:23.0

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Donna de Varona	United States	1:07.5	Q, OR
2	Mary Anne Cotterill	Great Britain	1:09.4	Q
3	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:09.9	Q
4	Kimiko Sato	Japan	1:10.6	Q

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ada Kok	Netherlands	1:07.8	Q
2	Eila Pyrhönen	Finland	1:07.9	Q
3	Marianne Humeniuk	Canada	1:09.5	Q
4	Márta Egerváry	Hungary	1:10.3	Q
5	Tetiana Dev'iatova	Soviet Union	1:11.1
6	Jenny Wood	Zimbabwe	1:11.3
7	Ann Lallande	Puerto Rico	1:17.1

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Sharon Stouder	United States	1:07.0	Q, OR
2	Ute Noack	United Team of Germany	1:09.2	Q
3	Valentyna Yakovleva	Soviet Union	1:11.2
4	Helen Kennedy	Canada	1:11.2
5	Hiroko Saito	Japan	1:13.1
6	Gillian de Greenlaw	Australia	1:14.8
7	Margaret Harding	Puerto Rico	1:23.7

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Glenda Phillips	Great Britain	1:10.3	Q
2	Anna Maria Cecchi	Italy	1:10.3	Q
3	Heike Hustede-Nagel	United Team of Germany	1:10.5	Q
4	Silvia Belmar	Mexico	1:12.1
5	María Ballesté	Spain	1:13.1
6	Jan Turner	Australia	1:14.4

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sharon Stouder	United States	1:05.6	Q, OR
2	Ada Kok	Netherlands	1:05.9	Q
3	Eila Pyrhönen	Finland	1:07.9	Q
4	Marianne Humeniuk	Canada	1:09.2
5	Ute Noack	United Team of Germany	1:09.3
6	Glenda Phillips	Great Britain	1:10.6
7	Márta Egerváry	Hungary	1:10.7
8	Kimiko Sato	Japan	1:11.2

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kathleen Ellis	United States	1:07.2	Q
2	Donna de Varona	United States	1:07.7	Q
3	Eiko Takahashi	Japan	1:07.8	Q
4	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:08.6	Q
5	Heike Hustede-Nagel	United Team of Germany	1:08.8	Q
6	Mary-Anne Cotterill	Great Britain	1:09.4
7	Anna Maria Cecchi	Italy	1:10.4
8	Judy Gegan	Great Britain	1:10.5

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Sharon Stouder	United States	1:04.7	WR
	Ada Kok	Netherlands	1:05.6
	Kathy Ellis	United States	1:06.0
4	Eila Pyrhönen	Finland	1:07.3
5	Donna de Varona	United States	1:08.0
6	Heike Hustede-Nagel	United Team of Germany	1:08.5
7	Eiko Takahashi	Japan	1:09.1
8	Mary Beth Stewart	Canada	1:10.0

Key: WR = World record

References

1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2016.