The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 20 and 21 October. 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.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:07.7 2 Ada Kok 1:08.5 3 Jeanne Warren 1:10.0 4 Yasuko Fujii 1:10.1 5 Patricia Obregón 1:12.4 6 Nam Sang-nam 1:16.9
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ellie Daniel 1:07.2 2 Tatyana Devyatova 1:07.6 3 Christine Strübing 1:09.2 4 Nel Bos 1:09.5 5 Oei Liana 1:11.2 6 Vivienne Smith 1:13.1 7 Catherine Grosjean 1:14.6
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Lyn McClements 1:06.1 2 Andrea Gyarmati 1:07.4 3 Yvonne Tobis 1:12.0
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Helga Lindner 1:08.0 2 Toni Hewitt 1:08.1 3 Margaret Auton 1:08.5 4 Carmen Gómez 1:14.7 5 Ruth Apt 1:15.3 6 Ana Marcial 1:17.1
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Susan Shields 1:06.2 2 Sandra Whittleston 1:08.5 3 Gillian Treers 1:10.6 4 Marilyn Corson 1:10.7 5 Pauline Gray 1:13.5 6 Adriana Comolli 1:16.5
Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ada Kok 1:06.2 2 Susan Shields 1:06.3 3 Andrea Gyarmati 1:06.6 4 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:07.0 5 Toni Hewitt 1:07.9 6 Christine Strübing 1:08.2 7 Jeanne Warren 1:09.7 8 Gillian Treers 1:10.6
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ellie Daniel 1:06.1 2 Lyn McClements 1:06.1 3 Helga Lindner 1:07.7 4 Tatyana Devyatova 1:08.4 5 Nel Bos 1:08.5 6 Sandra Whittleston 1:08.7 7 Margaret Auton 1:08.7 8 Yasuko Fujii 1:09.4
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Lyn McClements 1:05.5 Ellie Daniel 1:05.8 Susan Shields 1:06.2 4 Ada Kok 1:06.2 5 Andrea Gyarmati 1:06.8 6 Heike Hustede-Nagel 1:06.9 7 Toni Hewitt 1:07.5 8 Helga Lindner 1:07.6
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