Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 20 and 21 July 1976.[1]

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tauna Vandeweghe	United States	1:05.00	Q
2	Klavdiya Studennikova	Soviet Union	1:05.56	Q
3	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	1:05.64	Q
4	Antonella Roncelli	Italy	1:06.59
5	Sylvie Testuz	France	1:07.62
6	Paola Ruggieri	Venezuela	1:11.14

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nancy Garapick	Canada	1:03.28	Q
2	Michelle de Vries	Australia	1:06.22	Q
3	Gabriella Verrasztó	Hungary	1:06.27
4	Amanda James	Great Britain	1:07.28
5	Angelika Grieser	West Germany	1:08.08
6	Liliana Cian	Colombia	1:11.62
7	Sansanee Changkasiri	Thailand	1:19.15

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	1:04.34	Q
2	Linda Jezek	United States	1:04.69	Q
3	Karin Bormann	West Germany	1:06.33
4	Renee Magee	United States	1:06.44
5	Joy Beasley	Great Britain	1:06.66
6	Claudia Bellotto	Argentina	1:10.27
7	Raphaelynne Lee	Hong Kong	1:14.66

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Antje Stille	East Germany	1:04.34	Q
2	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	1:04.98	Q
3	Nadiya Stavko	Soviet Union	1:05.39	Q
4	Glenda Robertson	Australia	1:06.19	Q
5	Monique Rodahl	New Zealand	1:06.73
6	Naoko Miura	Japan	1:08.31
7	Deirdre Sheehan	Ireland	1:11.53

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Richter	East Germany	1:03.61	Q
2	Wendy Cook-Hogg	Canada	1:04.31	Q
3	Diane Edelijn	Netherlands	1:05.56	Q
4	Yoshimi Nishigawa	Japan	1:05.78	Q
5	Heike John	West Germany	1:06.20	Q
6	Gunilla Lundberg	Sweden	1:07.73
7	Pierrette Michel	Belgium	1:12.73

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Richter	East Germany	1:02.39	Q
2	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	1:04.21	Q
3	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	1:04.89	Q
4	Klavdiya Studennikova	Soviet Union	1:05.73
5	Linda Jezek	United States	1:06.01
6	Michelle de Vries	Australia	1:06.02
7	Tauna Vandeweghe	United States	1:06.29
8	Glenda Robertson	Australia	1:06.93

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nancy Garapick	Canada	1:03.75	Q
2	Antje Stille	East Germany	1:03.94	Q
3	Wendy Cook-Hogg	Canada	1:04.17	Q
4	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	1:05.21	Q
5	Nadiya Stavko	Soviet Union	1:05.23	Q
6	Diane Edelijn	Netherlands	1:05.58
7	Heike John	West Germany	1:06.26
8	Yoshimi Nishigawa	Japan	1:06.46

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ulrike Richter	East Germany	1:01.83	OR
	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	1:03.41
	Nancy Garapick	Canada	1:03.71
4	Wendy Cook-Hogg	Canada	1:03.93
5	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	1:05.16
6	Nadiya Stavko	Soviet Union	1:05.19
7	Antje Stille	East Germany	1:05.30
8	Diane Edelijn	Netherlands	1:05.53

References

1. "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

External links

• Official Olympic Report