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

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Games:	1932 Summer
Date:	30 July – 2 August
Competitors:	34
Nations:	14
Gold:	Greta Andersen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Ann Curtis
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen
Bronzenoc:	NED
Prev:	1936
Next:	1952

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

Results

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1			1:06.5
2			1:06.9
3			1:07.0
4			1:07.5
5			1:07.9
6			1:08.1
7			1:08.3
8			1:08.4
9			1:08.4
10			1:08.5
11			1:08.6
12			1:08.7
13			1:09.0
14			1:09.0
15			1:09.0
16			1:09.4
17			1:09.7
18			1:09.8
19			1:09.8
20			1:10.0
21			1:10.8
22			1:12.0
23			1:12.1
24			1:12.1
25			1:12.5
26			1:13.0
27			1:13.3
28			1:13.5
29			1:14.0
30			1:14.9
31			1:15.8
32			1:16.0
33			1:16.5
34			1:19.9

Semifinals

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1			1:05.9	Q
2			1:07.5	Q
3			1:07.6	Q
4			1:07.7	Q
5			1:08.4	Q
6			1:08.4	Q
7			1:08.6	q
8			1:08.7	q
9			1:08.9
10			1:09.3
11			1:09.3
12			1:09.5
13			1:09.5
14			1:09.6
15			1:09.7
16			1:10.0

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
			1:06.3
			1:06.5
			1:07.6
4			1:08.1
5			1:08.4
6			1:08.4
7			1:08.8
8			1:09.1

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417170144/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/SWI/womens-100-metres-freestyle.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 20 September 2016 . Sports Reference.