The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 2 in the Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München. This swimming event used the breaststroke. 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 Notes 1 Lyudmila Porubayko 1:17.14 2 Renate Vogel 1:17.33 3 Beverley Whitfield 1:17.59 4 Tetiana Prudnikova 1:18.11 5 Yoko Yamamoto 1:18.94 6 Ann O'Connor 1:19.13 7 Judith Hudson 1:19.78 8 Shlomit Nir 1:20.90

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Judy Melick 1:16.75 2 Vreni Eberle 1:17.67 3 Lynn Vidali 1:18.80 4 Zuzana Marková 1:18.88 5 Jaroslava Slavíčková 1:19.12 6 Diana Harris 1:19.19 7 Winnie Nielsen 1:23.00 8 Leonor Urueta 1:23.21

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Dorothy Harrison 1:16.99 2 Christine Jarvis 1:18.27 3 Sylvia Langer 1:18.29 4 Brigitte Schuchardt 1:18.62 5 Dagmar Sierck 1:18.80 6 Jane Wright 1:20.56 7 Cristina Teixeira 1:20.58 8 Ani Jane Mugrditchian 1:29.71

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Halyna Prozumenshchykova-Stepanova 1:17.18 2 Jeanette Pettersson 1:17.83 3 Éva Kiss 1:18.57 4 Alie te Riet 1:18.79 5 Tineke Hofland 1:19.38 6 Patricia Siewert 1:19.54 7 Mairi Ioannidou 1:21.70 8 Lee Yue-hwan 1:25.47

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Cathy Carr 1:16.01 2 Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss 1:16.52 3 Britt-Marie Smedh 1:17.21 4 Erika Rüegg 1:17.95 5 Sylvia Dockerill 1:18.64 6 Marian Stuart 1:18.69 7 Béatrice Mottoulle 1:20.79 8 Ana Elena de la Portilla 1:21.61

Semifinals

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Galina Prozumenshchikova 1:15.89 2 Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss 1:16.34 3 Dorothy Harrison 1:16.53 4 Vreni Eberle 1:16.76 5 Renate Vogel 1:16.87 6 Erika Rüegg 1:17.50 7 Christine Jarvis 1:17.58 8 Éva Kiss 1:17.59

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Cathy Carr 1:15.00 OR 2 Judy Melick 1:16.22 3 Beverley Whitfield 1:16.26 4 Britt-Marie Smedh 1:16.67 5 Lyudmila Porubayko 1:16.85 6 Jeanette Pettersson 1:17.54 7 Tetiana Prudnikova 1:19.37 8 Sylvia Langer 1:20.03

Key: OR = Olympic record

Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Cathy Carr 1:13.58 WR Galina Prozumenshchikova 1:14.99 Beverley Whitfield 1:15.73 4 Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss 1:16.26 5 Judy Melick 1:16.34 6 Vreni Eberle 1:17.16 7 Britt-Marie Smedh 1:17.19 8 Dorothy Harrison 1:17.49

Key: WR = World record

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