Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 26 and 28 July at the Swimming Stadium.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Katalin Szőke
  Hungary
Silver Hannie Termeulen
  Netherlands
Bronze Judit Temes
  Hungary

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher   Netherlands 1:06.7
2 Ilona Novák   Hungary 1:07.7
3 Elisabeth Rechlin   Germany 1:08.5
4 Mette Ove Petersen   Denmark 1:09.6
5 Maria Nardi   Italy 1:13.2
6 Sadako Yamashita   Japan 1:13.2
7 Cynthia Eager   Hong Kong 1:16.8

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Hannie Termeulen   Netherlands 1:07.3
2 Greta Andersen   Denmark 1:08.0
3 Judy Roberts   United States 1:08.2
4 Marianne Lundquist   Sweden 1:10.8
5 Vera Schäferkordt   Germany 1:10.9
6 Romana Calligaris   Italy 1:11.0
7 Dolly Nazir   India 1:24.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Katalin Szőke   Hungary 1:07.1
2 Koosje van Voorn   Netherlands 1:07.4
3 Josette Arène   France 1:09.1
4 Jean Botham   Great Britain 1:10.5
5 Fumiko Sakaguchi   Japan 1:14.6
6 Irene Strong   Canada 1:15.1

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joan Harrison   South Africa 1:06.5
2 Jody Alderson   United States 1:07.4
3 Angela Barnwell   Great Britain 1:07.6
4 Ingegerd Fredin   Sweden 1:08.0
5 Denise Norton   Australia 1:11.8
6 Gladys Priestley   Canada 1:13.4
7 Raili Riuttala   Finland 1:13.5

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Judit Temes   Hungary 1:05.5 OR
2 Ragnhild Hveger   Denmark 1:08.6
3 Maud Berglund   Sweden 1:09.8
4 Lillian Preece   Great Britain 1:10.0
5 Ritva Järvinen   Finland 1:11.5
6 Sybille Verckist   Belgium 1:13.7
7 Shizue Miyabe   Japan 1:16.6

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marilee Stepan   United States 1:07.7
2 Marjorie McQuade   Australia 1:07.9
3 Ana María Schultz   Argentina 1:10.6
4 Gaby Tanguy   France 1:10.6
5 Kay McNamee   Canada 1:12.9
6 Susy Vaterlaus   Switzerland 1:16.8
7 Ritva Koivula   Finland 1:17.3

Semifinals

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Semifinal 1

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jody Alderson   United States 1:06.6 Q
2 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher   Netherlands 1:06.7 Q
3 Hannie Termeulen   Netherlands 1:07.1 Q
4 Marilee Stepan   United States 1:07.4 Q
5 Judit Temes   Hungary 1:07.4 Q
6 Ragnhild Hveger   Denmark 1:07.7
7 Marjorie McQuade   Australia 1:08.2
8 Ingegerd Fredin   Sweden 1:08.7

Semifinal 2

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joan Harrison   South Africa 1:07.2 Q
2 Katalin Szőke   Hungary 1:07.2 Q
3 Angela Barnwell   Great Britain 1:07.2 Q
4 Ilona Novák   Hungary 1:07.8
5 Koosje van Voorn   Netherlands 1:08.1
6 Greta Andersen   Denmark 1:08.2
7 Judy Roberts   United States 1:08.2
8 Elisabeth Rechlin   Germany 1:08.5

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Katalin Szőke   Hungary 1:06.8
  Hannie Termeulen   Netherlands 1:07.0
  Judit Temes   Hungary 1:07.1
4 Joan Harrison   South Africa 1:07.1
5 Jody Alderson   United States 1:07.1
6 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher   Netherlands 1:07.3
7 Marilee Stepan   United States 1:08.0
8 Angela Barnwell   Great Britain 1:08.6

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2016.