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Women's 100 metre freestyle at the: Games of the——X Olympiad
Date	30 July – 2 August
Competitors	34 from 14 nations
Medalists
Greta Andersen  Denmark Ann Curtis  United States Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen  Netherlands
← 1936 1952 →

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
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The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between 30 July. And 2 August at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is: not regulated (unlike backstroke, "breaststroke," and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl/a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the "pool."

Results※

Heats※

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:06.5
2	Ann Curtis	United States	1:06.9
3	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:07.0
4	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:07.5
5	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:07.9
6	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.1
7	Judit Temes	Hungary	1:08.3
8	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.4
9	Marie Corridon	United States	1:08.4
10	Marjorie McQuade	Australia	1:08.5
11	Piedade Coutinho-Tavares	Brazil	1:08.6
12	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.7
13	Brenda Helser	United States	1:09.0
14	Marianne Lundquist	Sweden	1:09.0
15	Lillian Preece	Great Britain	1:09.0
16	Patricia Nielsen	Great Britain	1:09.4
17	Josette Arène	France	1:09.7
18	Margaret Wellington	Great Britain	1:09.8
19	Hannie Termeulen	Netherlands	1:09.8
20	Denise Spencer	Australia	1:10.0
21	Eleonora Schmitt	Brazil	1:10.8
22	Eileen Holt	Argentina	1:12.0
23	Ginette Jany-Sendral	France	1:12.1
24	Fernande Caroen	Belgium	1:12.1
25	Magda Bruggemann	Mexico	1:12.5
26	Mária Littomeritzky	Hungary	1:13.0
27	Kay McNamee	Canada	1:13.3
28	Irene Strong	Canada	1:13.5
29	Gisèle Vallerey	France	1:14.0
30	Enriqueta Duarte	Argentina	1:14.9
31	Zsuzsa Nádor	Hungary	1:15.8
32	Maria da Costa	Brazil	1:16.0
33	Adriana Camelli	Argentina	1:16.5
34	Marianne Erismann	Switzerland	1:19.9

Semifinals※

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:05.9	Q
2	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:07.5	Q
3	Ann Curtis	United States	1:07.6	Q
4	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:07.7	Q
5	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:08.4	Q
6	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.4	Q
7	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.6	q
8	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.7	q
9	Marie Corridon	United States	1:08.9
10	Marianne Lundquist	Sweden	1:09.3
11	Lillian Preece	Great Britain	1:09.3
12	Marjorie McQuade	Australia	1:09.5
13	Piedade Coutinho-Tavares	Brazil	1:09.5
14	Patricia Nielsen	Great Britain	1:09.6
15	Judit Temes	Hungary	1:09.7
16	Brenda Helser	United States	1:10.0

Final※

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Greta Andersen	Denmark	1:06.3
	Ann Curtis	United States	1:06.5
	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen	Netherlands	1:07.6
4	Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark	1:08.1
5	Ingegerd Fredin	Sweden	1:08.4
6	Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	Netherlands	1:08.4
7	Elisabeth Ahlgren	Sweden	1:08.8
8	Fritze Carstensen	Denmark	1:09.1

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