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Swimming Almanac
Women's 100m backstroke
Olympics Medal Athlete Country Time
Atlanta 1996 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Beth Botsford
Whitney Hedgepeth
Marianne Kriel
United States
United States
South Africa
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Barcelona 1992 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Krisztina Egerszegi
Tunde Szabo
Lea Loveless
Hungary
Hungary
United States
1:00.68
1:01.14
1:01.43
Seoul 1988 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Kristin Otto
Krisztina Egerszegi
Cornelia Sirch
East Germany
Hungary
East Germany
1:00.89
1:01.14
1:01.43
Los Angeles 1984 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Theresa Andrews
Betsy Mitchell
Jolanda de Rover
United States
United States
Holland
1:02.55
1:02.63
1:02.91
Moscow 1980 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Rica Reinisch
Ina Kleber
Petra Riedel
East Germany
East Germany
East Germany
1:00.86
1:02.07
1:02.64
Montreal 1976 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Ulrike Richter
Brigit Treiber
Nancy Garapick
East Germany
East Germany
Canada
1:01.83
1:03.41
1:03.71
Munich 1972 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Melissa Belote
Andrea Gyarmati
Susie Atwood
United States
Hungary
United States
1:05.78
1:06.26
1:06.34
Mexico City 1968 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Kaye Hall
Elaine Tanner
Jane Swagerty
United States
Canada
United States
1:06.2
1:06.7
1:08.1
Tokyo 1964 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Cathy Ferguson
Christine Caron
Virginia Duenkel
United States
France
United States
1:07.7
1:07.9
1:08.0
Rome 1960 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Lynn Burke
Natalie Steward
Satoko Tanaka
United States
Great Britain
Japan
1:09.3
1:10.8
1:11.4
Melbourne 1956 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Judith Grinham
Carin Cone
Margaret Edwards
Great Britain
United States
Great Britain
1:12.9
1:12.9
1:13.1
Helsinki 1952 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Joan Harrison
Gertje Wielema
Jean Stewart
South Africa
Holland
New Zealand
1:14.3
1:14.5
1:15.8
London 1948 Gold
Silver
Bronze
K. Margrete-Haup
Suzanne Zimmerman
Judith Davies
Denmark
United States
Australia
1:14.4
1:16.0
1:16.7
Berlin 1936 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Dina Senff
H. Mastenbroek
Alice Bridges
Netherlands
Netherlands
United States
1:18.9
1:19.2
1:19.4
Los Angeles 1932 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Eleanor Holm
Philomena Mealing
Elizabeth Davies
United States
Australia
Great Britain
1:19.4
1:21.3
1:22.5
Amsterdam 1928 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Maria Braun
Ellen King
Margaret J. Cooper
Netherlands
Great Britain
Great Britain
1:22.0
1:22.2
1:22.8
Paris 1924 Gold
Silver
Bronze
Sybil Bauer
Phyllis Harding
Aileen Riggin
United States
Great Britain
United States
1:23.2
1:27.4
1:28.2


 



 
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