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
Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke Olympic record was set using a technique of swimming long distances underwater during her run. This technique would later be disallowed by FINA in the late 1950s to ensure the majority of the race was swum on the surface. Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics, took place on November 29–30, at the Swimming and Diving Stadium. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the seventh appearance of