Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle Key: OR = Olympic record Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 28 and 29. 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 or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 5 Heat
Dalby Olympic Swimming Pool was proclaimed a municipality in 1863. Dalby has a long association with swimming as a sport. Initially, a swimming hole in Myall Creek was used, but in 1902 an artesian bore was sunk on the bank and baths were built nearby to take advantage of the bore water. The Dalby Amateur Swimming Club was formed in 1912. In 1920 a new bore was sunk and in 1924 a public baths (the Dalby Bore Baths) was constructed close to it. This facility closed in September 1938, possibly because the new Olympic Pool had supplanted it. From the 1910s, swimming as both