Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	September 5, 1973
Competitors:	24
Nations:	18
Win Value:	1:13.748
Gold:	Renate Vogel
Goldnoc:	GDR
Silver:	Lyubov Rusanova
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Brigitte Schuchardt
Bronzenoc:	GDR
Next:	1975

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 September	Heat			1:17.030	CR
5 September	Heat			1:16.762	CR
5 September	Heat			1:14.600	CR
5 September	Final			1:13.748	CR

Results

Heats

24 swimmers participated in 3 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-			1:14.600	Q, CR
2	3	-			1:16.670	Q
3	2	-			1:16.762	Q, CR
4	2	-			1:16.877	Q
5	1	-			1:17.030	Q, CR
6	2	-			1:17.271	Q
7	1	-			1:17.325	Q
8	2	-			1:17.995	Q
9	1	-			1:18.136
10	2	-			1:18.147
11	3	-			1:18.920
12	3	-			1:19.210
13	2	-			1:19.390
14	3	-			1:19.570
15	1	-			1:20.048
16	1	-			1:20.481
17	3	-			1:20.770
18	2	-			1:20.819
19	3	-			1:21.170
20	1	-			1:21.446
21	1	-			1:21.828
22	3	-			1:21.920
23	1	-			1:23.503
24	2	-			1:28.048

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-			1:13.748	CR, ER^[2]
	-			1:15.428
	-			1:15.821
	-			1:16.358	NR
	-			1:16.758
	-			1:16.790
	-			1:16.931
	-			1:17.049

Notes and References

1. October 1973. For the Record. Swimming World Magazine. 73. pdf. 14 May 2013.
2. News: Norman. Fox. Fourth gives record to Miss Jarvis. The Times. London. 10. September 6, 1973.