Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between July 30 and August 2 at the Empire Pool.^[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

Gold	Greta Andersen  Denmark
Silver	Ann Curtis  United States
Bronze	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen  Netherlands

Results

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:06.5
2	Ann Curtis	United States	1:06.9
3	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:07.0
4	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:07.5
5	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:07.9
6	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.1
7	Judit Temes	Hungary	1:08.3
8	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.4
9	Marie Corridon	United States	1:08.4
10	Marjorie McQuade	Australia	1:08.5
11	Piedade Coutinho-Tavares	Brazil	1:08.6
12	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.7
13	Brenda Helser	United States	1:09.0
14	Marianne Lundquist	Sweden	1:09.0
15	Lillian Preece	Great Britain	1:09.0
16	Patricia Nielsen	Great Britain	1:09.4
17	Josette Arène	France	1:09.7
18	Margaret Wellington	Great Britain	1:09.8
19	Hannie Termeulen	Netherlands	1:09.8
20	Denise Spencer	Australia	1:10.0
21	Eleonora Schmidt	Brazil	1:10.8
22	Eileen Holt	Argentina	1:12.0
23	Ginette Jany-Sendral	France	1:12.1
24	Fernande Caroen	Belgium	1:12.1
25	Magda Bruggemann	Mexico	1:12.5
26	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:13.0
27	Kay McNamee	Canada	1:13.3
28	Irene Strong	Canada	1:13.5
29	Gisèle Vallerey	France	1:14.0
30	Enriqueta Duarte	Argentina	1:14.9
31	Zsuzsa Nádor	Hungary	1:15.8
32	Maria da Costa	Brazil	1:16.0
33	Adriana Camelli	Argentina	1:16.5
34	Maria-Anna Erismann	Switzerland	1:19.9

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:06.3
	Ann Curtis	United States	1:06.5
	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:07.6
4	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.1
5	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.4
6	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:08.4
7	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.8
8	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:09.1

References

1. "Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 20 September 2016.