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

Event:	Women's 100 metre butterfly
Games:	1964 Summer
Venue:	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Date:	14 October 1964 (heats) 15 October 1964 (semifinals) 16 October 1964 (final)
Competitors:	31
Nations:	16
Win Value:	1:04.7
Gold:	Sharon Stouder
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ada Kok
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Kathy Ellis
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1960

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.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1			1:07.8	Q,
2			1:08.4	Q
3			1:10.8	Q
4			1:11.2
5			1:11.7
6			1:13.6
7			1:23.0

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1			1:07.5	Q,
2			1:09.4	Q
3			1:09.9	Q
4			1:10.6	Q

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1			1:07.8	Q
2			1:07.9	Q
3			1:09.5	Q
4			1:10.3	Q
5			1:11.1
6			1:11.3
7			1:17.1

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1			1:07.0	Q,
2			1:09.2	Q
3			1:11.2
4			1:11.2
5			1:13.1
6			1:14.8
7			1:23.7

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1			1:10.3	Q
2			1:10.3	Q
3			1:10.5	Q
4			1:12.1
5			1:13.1
6			1:14.4

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1			1:05.6	Q,
2			1:05.9	Q
3			1:07.9	Q
4			1:09.2
5			1:09.3
6			1:10.6
7			1:10.7
8			1:11.2

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1			1:07.2	Q
2			1:07.7	Q
3			1:07.8	Q
4			1:08.6	Q
5			1:08.8	Q
6			1:09.4
7			1:10.4
8			1:10.5

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
			1:04.7	WR
			1:05.6
			1:06.0
4			1:07.3
5			1:08.0
6			1:08.5
7			1:09.1
8			1:10.0

Key: WR = World record

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417112325/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/SWI/womens-100-metres-butterfly.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 2 November 2016 . Sports Reference.