Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, with the final on 18 July 1976.^[1]

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
Kornelia Ender  East Germany Petra Priemer  East Germany Enith Brigitha  Netherlands
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Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Petra Priemer	East Germany	56.95	Q, OR
2	Rebecca Perrott	New Zealand	57.66	Q
3	Pia Mårtensson	Sweden	59.15
4	Ida Hansson	Sweden	1:00.22
5	Shelley Cramer	Virgin Islands	1:00.67
6	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	1:02.42

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Anne Jardin	Canada	57.61	Q
2	Jutta Weber	West Germany	57.71	Q
3	Sachiko Yamazaki	Japan	1:00.43
4	Regina Nissen	West Germany	1:00.60
5	Lesleigh Harvey	Australia	1:01.59
6	Deirdre Sheehan	Ireland	1:02.11
7	Vilborg Sverrisdóttir	Iceland	1:03.26

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jill Sterkel	United States	57.41	Q
2	Guylaine Berger	France	58.79	Q
3	Irina Vlasova	Soviet Union	58.99
4	Elaine Gray	Great Britain	1:00.31
5	Ivis Poleo	Venezuela	1:03.07
6	Karen Robertson	Hong Kong	1:04.29

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Shirley Babashoff	United States	58.06	Q
2	Barbara Clark	Canada	58.29	Q
3	Susan Edmondson	Great Britain	1:00.64
4	Berber Kamstra	Netherlands	1:00.68
5	Geert Boekhout	Belgium	1:00.76
6	Marianela Huen	Venezuela	1:02.51
7	Georgina Osorio	Panama	1:03.88

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Claudia Hempel	East Germany	57.35	Q
2	Lene Jenssen	Norway	58.10	Q
3	Jenny Tate	Australia	58.78	Q
4	Marina Klyuchnikova	Soviet Union	59.30
5	Ratchaneewan Bulakul	Thailand	1:01.33
6	Rossana Juncos	Argentina	1:01.89

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	56.61	Q, OR
2	Kim Peyton	United States	57.26	Q
3	Ineke Ran	Netherlands	58.08	Q
4	Drue Le Guier	Australia	59.40
5	Beate Jasch	West Germany	1:00.80
6	María París	Costa Rica	1:01.53

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	55.81	Q, OR
2	Gail Amundrud	Canada	58.01	Q
3	Lyubov Kobzova	Soviet Union	58.93
4	Anne Richard	Belgium	59.11
5	Diana Olsson	Sweden	1:00.46
6	Susana Coppo	Argentina	1:02.46
7	Jane Fayer	Puerto Rico	1:02.89

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Peyton	United States	56.89	Q
2	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	57.08	Q
3	Jill Sterkel	United States	57.19	Q
4	Barbara Clark	Canada	57.72
5	Gail Amundrud	Canada	58.10
6	Rebecca Perrott	New Zealand	58.13
7	Ineke Ran	Netherlands	58.50
8	Guylaine Berger	France	58.62

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	55.82	Q
2	Shirley Babashoff	United States	56.95	Q
3	Claudia Hempel	East Germany	57.05	Q
4	Petra Priemer	East Germany	57.21	Q
5	Jutta Weber	West Germany	57.35	Q
6	Anne Jardin	Canada	57.78
7	Lene Jenssen	Norway	58.10
8	Jenny Tate	Australia	58.88

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	55.65	WR
	Petra Priemer	East Germany	56.49
	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	56.65
4	Kim Peyton	United States	56.81
5	Shirley Babashoff	United States	56.95
6	Claudia Hempel	East Germany	56.99
7	Jill Sterkel	United States	57.06
8	Jutta Weber	West Germany	57.26

References

1. . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2016.