The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 12 and 13. 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 Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kathy Ellis 1:01.5 2 Martina Grunert 1:03.1 3 Daniela Beneck 1:03.2 4 Winnie van Weerdenburg 1:03.8 5 Ryoko Urakami 1:04.5 6 Mary Beth Stewart 1:05.1 7 Im Geum-ja 1:16.1

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ann-Christine Hagberg 1:02.5 2 Rita Schumacher 1:03.5 3 Anneliese Rockenbach 1:04.3 4 Paola Saini 1:04.4 5 Sandra Keen 1:04.7 6 Toos Beumer 1:05.2 7 Ann Lallande 1:06.8

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Jeanne Hallock 1:03.6 2 Robyn Thorn 1:03.7 3 Nataliya Ustinova 1:04.2 4 Kirsten Strange-Campbell 1:05.3 5 Traudi Beierlein 1:05.4 6 Monique Piétri 1:05.8 7 Christl Paukerl 1:07.3

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Erica Terpstra 1:02.5 2 Judit Turóczy 1:02.9 3 Ulla Jäfvert 1:03.8 4 Nataliya Bystrova 1:04.0 5 Diana Wilkinson 1:05.0 6 Mara Sacchi 1:05.9 7 Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir 1:06.4 8 Rosario de Vivanco 1:09.0

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Dawn Fraser 1:00.6 2 Marion Lay 1:02.1 3 Katalin Takács 1:03.5 4 Toyoko Kimura 1:04.8 5 Marilyn Sidelsky 1:05.5 6 Linda Amos 1:06.1 7 Rita Pulido 1:06.7 8 Margaret Harding 1:11.7

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sharon Stouder 1:02.3 2 Lyn Bell 1:02.4 3 Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai 1:02.5 4 Ann-Charlotte Lilja 1:03.7 5 Helen Kennedy 1:04.2 6 Miyoko Azuma 1:06.4 7 Jovina Tseng 1:13.9

Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Dawn Fraser 59.9 2 Marion Lay 1:02.2 3 Lyn Bell 1:02.2 4 Csilla Madarász 1:02.3 5 Jeanne Hallock 1:02.4 6 Daniela Beneck 1:02.9 7 Judit Turóczy 1:03.0 8 Robyn Thorn 1:03.9 Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sharon Stouder 1:01.4 2 Erica Terpstra 1:02.3 3 Kathy Ellis 1:02.5 4 Ann-Christine Hagberg 1:02.8 5 Martina Grunert 1:03.1 6 Katalin Takács 1:03.3 7 Ann-Charlotte Lilja 1:03.9 8 Ulla Jäfvert 1:04.6

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Dawn Fraser 59.5 OR Sharon Stouder 59.9 Kathy Ellis 1:00.8 4 Erica Terpstra 1:01.8 5 Marion Lay 1:02.2 6 Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai 1:02.4 7 Ann-Christine Hagberg 1:02.5 8 Lyn Bell 1:02.7

Key: OR = Olympic record

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