Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1960 Olympic Games

1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

took place between September 1 and 3. This swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

event used backstroke

Backstroke

The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...

. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lynn Burke Lynn Burke Lynn Burke is an American swimmer and olympic champion. She competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where she received a gold medal in 100 m backstroke, and also a gold medal in 4x100m medley relay.-References:...		1:09.3	OR
	Natalie Steward Natalie Steward Natalie Alwyne Steward is a former British Olympic swimmer.Steward represented Great Britain at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Italy in four events: she won the bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle in a time of 1:03.1, and the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke in 1:10.8...		1:10.8
	Satoko Tanaka Satoko Tanaka is a retired Japanese backstroke swimmer.She won the 1960 Olympic bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1:11.4.- References :* - External links :* http://www.ishof.org/honorees/91/91stanaka.html...		1:11.4
4	Laura Ranwell		1:11.4
5	Rosy Piacentini		1:11.4
6	Sylvia Lewis		1:11.8
7	Ria van Velsen		1:12.1
8	Nadine Delache		1:12.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

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