Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
# Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 29 and August 30. 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.

## Medalists

| Gold | Carolyn Schuler United States |
| - | - |
| Silver | Marianne Heemskerk Netherlands |
| Bronze | Jan Andrew Australia |

## Results

### Heats

Eight fastest swimmers advanced directly to the finals

Heat 1

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Carolyn Schuler | United States | 1:09.8 |
| 2 | Jan Andrew | Australia | 1:10.3 |
| 3 | Valentina Poznyak | Soviet Union | 1:13.2 |
| 4 | Jean Oldroyd | Great Britain | 1:14.2 |
| 5 | Silvia Belmar | Mexico | 1:16.5 |
| 6 | Hannelore Janele | Austria | 1:18.4 |
| | Judith McHale | Canada | DNS |

Heat 2

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sheila Watt | Great Britain | 1:12.3 |
| 2 | Zinaida Belovetskaya | Soviet Union | 1:12.6 |
| 3 | Kristina Larsson | Sweden | 1:13.0 |
| 4 | Anna Beneck | Italy | 1:18.4 |
| 5 | Hillary Wilson | Rhodesia | 1:21.4 |
| | Dawn Fraser | Australia | DNS |
| | Gertrudes Lozada | Philippines | DNS |

Heat 3

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Carolyn Wood | United States | 1:11.1 |
| 2 | Atie Voorbij | Netherlands | 1:12.4 |
| 3 | Heidi Eisenschmidt | United Team of Germany | 1:14.6 |
| 4 | Karin Larsson | Sweden | 1:15.0 |
| 5 | Eulalia Martínez | Mexico | 1:17.9 |
| 6 | Márta Egerváry | Hungary | 1:19.4 |
| 7 | Colette Libourel | France | 1:20.4 |

Heat 4

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Marianne Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:11.0 |
| 2 | Bärbel Fuhrmann | United Team of Germany | 1:13.2 |
| 3 | Margaret Iwasaki | Canada | 1:14.2 |
| 4 | Shizue Miyabe | Japan | 1:15.8 |
| 5 | Sandra von Giese | Philippines | 1:16.3 |
| 6 | Annie Caron | France | 1:17.1 |
| 7 | Anna Cechi | Italy | 1:19.5 |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Carolyn Schuler | United States | 1:09.5 | OR |
| | Marianne Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:10.4 | |
| | Jan Andrew | Australia | 1:12.2 | |
| 4 | Sheila Watt | Great Britain | 1:13.3 | |
| 5 | Atie Voorbij | Netherlands | 1:13.3 | |
| 6 | Zinaida Belovetskaya | Soviet Union | 1:13.3 | |
| 7 | Kristina Larsson | Sweden | 1:13.6 | |
| | Carolyn Wood | United States | DNF | |

Wood was in second place after 70 metres, but swallowed too much water, became confused, and stopped swimming.

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

