Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the X Olympiad
Women's 100 metre freestyle; at the Games of the X Olympiad
Date	6–8 August
Competitors	20 from 10 nations
Medalists
	← 1928 1936 →

The women's 100 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the fifth appearance of the event, which was established in 1912. The competition was held on Saturday August 6, 1932 and on Monday August 8, 1932.

Twenty swimmers from ten nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1:06.6	Helene Madison	Boston (USA)	April 20, 1931
Olympic Record	1:11.0	Albina Osipowich	Amsterdam (NED)	August 11, 1928

In the heats the Olympic record was broken in the second heat by Joyce Cooper with 1:09.0, in the third heat by Helene Madison with 1:08.9 and in the fourth heat Eleanor Saville with 1:08.5. In the first semi-final Willy den Ouden bettered the Olympic record with 1:07.6 and in the final Madison again set a new Olympic record with 1:06.8.

Results

Heats

Saturday August 6, 1932: The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Corrie Laddé (NED)	1:12.1	Q
2	Yvonne Godard (FRA)	1:12.2	Q
3	Valerie Davies (GBR)	1:12.7
4	Hatsuho Matsuzawa (JPN)	1:17.1
5	Marjorie Linton (CAN)	1:19.9

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Joyce Cooper (GBR)	1:09.0	Q OR
2	Josephine McKim (USA)	1:09.3	Q
3	Frances Bult (AUS)	1:11.4	q
4	Maria Vierdag (NED)	1:13.3
5	Irene Mullen (CAN)	1:15.2

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Helene Madison (USA)	1:08.9	Q OR
2	Jenny Maakal (RSA)	1:11.0	Q
3	Lilli Andersen (DEN)	1:11.6
4	Edna Hughes (GBR)	1:15.1
5	Kazue Kojima (JPN)	1:16.2

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Eleanor Saville (USA)	1:08.5	Q OR
2	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:09.2	Q
3	Yukie Arata (JPN)	1:16.1
4	Irene Pirie (CAN)	1:16.3
5	Maria Lenk (BRA)	1:25.8

Semifinals

Sunday August 7, 1932: The fastest three in each semi-final advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:07.6	Q OR
2	Eleanor Saville (USA)	1:08.8	Q
3	Josephine McKim (USA)	1:08.8	Q
4	Joyce Cooper (GBR)	1:09.2
5	Yvonne Godard (FRA)	1:14.1

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Helene Madison (USA)	1:09.9	Q
2	Frances Bult (AUS)	1:10.2	Q
3	Jenny Maakal (RSA)	1:10.6	Q
4	Corrie Laddé (NED)	1:11.8

Final

Monday August 8, 1932:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Helene Madison (USA)	1:06.8 OR
2	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:07.8
3	Eleanor Saville (USA)	1:08.2
4	Josephine McKim (USA)	1:09.3
5	Frances Bult (AUS)	1:09.9
6	Jenny Maakal (RSA)	1:10.8

References

^ "Swimming at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

External links

Olympic Report
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 November 2008.

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

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