The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on October 14 and October 16. 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
Results
Heats Heat 1
Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kathy Ellis 1:07.8 Q, 2 Eiko Takahashi 1:08.4 Q 3 Judy Gegan 1:10.8 Q 4 Adrie Lasterie 1:11.2 5 Linda McGill 1:11.7 6 Ursel Brunner 1:13.6 7 Molly Tay 1:23.0
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Donna de Varona 1:07.5 Q, 2 Mary Anne Cotterill 1:09.4 Q 3 Mary Beth Stewart 1:09.9 Q 4 Kimiko Sato 1:10.6 Q
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ada Kok 1:07.8 Q 2 Eila Pyrhönen 1:07.9 Q 3 Marianne Humeniuk 1:09.5 Q 4 Márta Egerváry 1:10.3 Q 5 Tetiana Dev'iatova 1:11.1 6 Jenny Wood 1:11.3 7 Ann Lallande 1:17.1
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sharon Stouder 1:07.0 Q, 2 Ute Noack 1:09.2 Q 3 Valentyna Yakovleva 1:11.2 4 Helen Kennedy 1:11.2 5 Hiroko Saito 1:13.1 6 Gillian de Greenlaw 1:14.8 7 Margaret Harding 1:23.7
Heat 5
Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Glenda Phillips 1:10.3 Q 2 Anna Maria Cecchi 1:10.3 Q 3 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:10.5 Q 4 Silvia Belmar 1:12.1 5 María Ballesté 1:13.1 6 Jan Turner 1:14.4
Semifinals Semifinal 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Sharon Stouder 1:05.6 Q, 2 Ada Kok 1:05.9 Q 3 Eila Pyrhönen 1:07.9 Q 4 Marianne Humeniuk 1:09.2 5 Ute Noack 1:09.3 6 Glenda Phillips 1:10.6 7 Márta Egerváry 1:10.7 8 Kimiko Sato 1:11.2
Semifinal 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Kathleen Ellis 1:07.2 Q 2 Donna de Varona 1:07.7 Q 3 Eiko Takahashi 1:07.8 Q 4 Mary Beth Stewart 1:08.6 Q 5 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:08.8 Q 6 Mary-Anne Cotterill 1:09.4 7 Anna Maria Cecchi 1:10.4 8 Judy Gegan 1:10.5
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Sharon Stouder 1:04.7 WR Ada Kok 1:05.6 Kathy Ellis 1:06.0 4 Eila Pyrhönen 1:07.3 5 Donna de Varona 1:08.0 6 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:08.5 7 Eiko Takahashi 1:09.1 8 Mary Beth Stewart 1:10.0
Key: WR = World record
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