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.

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

External links

• Official Olympic Report