The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 18 and 19 October. 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 Claude Mandonnaud 1:03.2 2 Elisabeth Berglund 1:03.6 3 Jenny Steinbeck 1:03.8 4 Simone Hanner 1:03.8 5 Helen Elliott 1:05.1 6 Patricia Olano 1:05.3

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Alexandra Jackson 1:00.5 2 Nataliya Ustinova 1:03.8 3 Miwako Kobayashi 1:04.2 4 Mariya Nikolova 1:05.1 5 Shen Bao-ni 1:06.7 6 Ruth Apt 1:07.0

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Nel Bos 1:03.0 2 Mirjana Šegrt 1:03.3 3 Edit Kovács 1:03.7 4 Catherine Grosjean 1:04.9 5 Fiona Kellock 1:05.8 6 Gillian Treers 1:06.3 7 Silvana Asturias 1:10.3

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Judit Turóczy 1:02.1 2 Shigeko Kawanishi 1:02.6 3 Uta Schmuck 1:03.1 4 Lotten Andersson 1:04.5 5 Rosario de Vivanco 1:04.7 6 Ingeborg Renner 1:05.9 7 Hedy García 1:06.1 8 Lorna Blake 1:13.2

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Linda Gustavson 1:00.8 2 Martina Grunert 1:03.2 3 Maria Strumolo 1:04.1 4 Helmi Boxberger 1:05.1 5 Vera Kock 1:05.1 6 Vivian Ortíz 1:06.9 7 Emilia Figueroa 1:07.2 8 Ana Marcial 1:10.1

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sue Pedersen 1:01.5 2 Roswitha Krause 1:03.3 3 Lynne Watson 1:03.5 4 Magdolna Patóh 1:03.8 5 Ana Boban 1:05.4 6 Toos Beumer 1:06.1 7 Lylian Castillo 1:08.3 8 Rosa Hasbún 1:10.0

Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Marion Lay 1:00.6 2 Lidiya Hrebets 1:03.3 3 Oľga Kozičová 1:03.3 4 Zoya Dus 1:04.2 5 Carmen Ferracuti 1:08.5 6 Nguyễn Minh Tam 1:09.5

Heat 8 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Jan Henne 1:00.1 2 Lyn Bell 1:01.9 3 Oei Liana 1:03.0 4 Heidi Reineck 1:04.2 5 Marcia Arriaga 1:05.4 6 Mirjam van Hemert 1:06.1 7 Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir 1:06.3 8 Kristina Moir 1:07.9

Semifinals

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Marion Lay 1:00.7 Q 2 Mirjana Segtr 1:01.9 Q 3 Martina Grunert 1:02.2 Q 4 Lynette Bell 1:02.4 5 Janet Steinbeck 1:02.6 6 Liana Oei 1:02.8 7 Lynette Watson 1:02.9 8 Magdolna Patoh 1:03.8

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Susan Pedersen 1:00.2 Q 2 Alexandra Jackson 1:00.6 Q 3 Roswitha Krause 1:02.4 4 Uta Schmuck 1:02.8 5 Shigeko Kawanishi 1:03.0 6 Lidiya Hrebets 1:03.3 7 Edit Kovac 1:03.5 8 Natalya Ustinova 1:05.0

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Jan Henne 1:00.5 Q 2 Linda Gustavson 1:00.6 Q 3 Judit Turoczy 1:01.8 Q 4 Olga Kozikova 1:02.6 5 Petronella Bos 1:02.8 5 Claude Mandonnaud 1:02.8 7 Elisabeth Berglund 1:03.5 8 Simone Hanner 1:04.8

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Jan Henne 1:00.0 Susan Pedersen 1:00.3 Linda Gustavson 1:00.3 4 Marion Lay 1:00.5 5 Martina Grunert 1:01.0 6 Alexandra Jackson 1:01.0 7 Mirjana Šegrt 1:01.5 8 Judit Turóczy 1:01.6

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