The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 23 October. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 23 October 1968 Final Kaye Hall 1:06.2

Results

Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Yukiko Goushi 1:10.2 2 Glenda Stirling 1:10.2 3 Kiki Caron 1:10.5 4 Bep Weeteling 1:12.5 5 Jacqueline Brown 1:13.0 6 Lidia Ramírez 1:14.5 7 Hedy García

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Zdenka Gašparač 1:09.9 2 Jane Swagerty 1:10.2 3 Andrea Gyarmati 1:11.3 4 Yvette Hafner 1:11.8 5 Adriana Comolli 1:13.8 6 Doris Meister 1:14.1 7 Rosa Hasbún 1:20.5

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Elaine Tanner 1:07.6 2 Lynne Watson 1:09.4 3 María Corominas 1:10.7 4 Ulla Patrikka 1:11.6 5 Angelika Kraus 1:12.6 6 Felicia Ospitaletche 1:17.7 7 Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Lien 1:19.2

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kendis Moore 1:10.5 2 Tatyana Savelyeva 1:11.7 3 Anca Andreiu 1:11.8 4 Dianna Rickard 1:12.4 5 Anne Walton 1:13.0 6 María Procopio 1:15.9 7 Shen Bao-ni 1:21.5

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Sylvie Canet 1:10.4 2 Tina Lek'veishvili 1:11.3 3 Bénédicte Duprez 1:11.6 4 Patricia Sentous 1:13.5 5 Pru Chapman 1:15.2 6 Carmen Ferracuti 1:17.8

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kaye Hall 1:09.8 2 Cobie Buter 1:10.0 3 Mária Balla-Lantos 1:11.9 4 Coby Sikkens 1:11.9 5 Wendy Burrell 1:12.0 6 Francine Dauven 1:15.3 7 Judit Bárányi 1:16.0

Semifinals Semifinal 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Lynne Watson 1:09.0 2 Kendis Moore 1:09.6 3 Glenda Stirling 1:10.1 4 Yukiko Goushi 1:10.2 5 Bénédicte Duprez 1:10.6 6 Zdenka Gašparač 1:10.8 7 María Corominas 1:11.0 8 Tina Lek'veishvili 1:11.0

Semifinal 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Elaine Tanner 1:07.4 2 Kaye Hall 1:08.2 3 Jane Swagerty 1:08.6 4 Sylvie Canet 1:09.0 5 Andrea Gyarmati 1:09.9 6 Cobie Buter 1:10.7 7 Kiki Caron 1:10.8 8 Ulla Patrikka 1:12.1

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Kaye Hall 1:06.2 WR Elaine Tanner 1:06.7 Jane Swagerty 1:08.1 4 Kendis Moore 1:08.3 5 Andrea Gyarmati 1:09.1 6 Lynne Watson 1:09.1 7 Sylvie Canet 1:09.3 8 Glenda Stirling 1:10.6

Key: WR = World record

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