| Women 100m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Saturday, 1st December - Gold Medal: Dawn Fraser, Australia | 
| Final |   | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Dawn Fraser |   Australia | 1:02.0 | WR | 4 | 19 |  | 2. Lorraine Crapp |   Australia | 1:02.3 | +0.3s | 5 | 18 |  | 3. Faith Leech |   Australia | 1:05.1 | +3.1s | 3 | 15 |  | 4. Joan Rosazza |   United States | 1:05.2 | +3.2s | 1 | 19 |  | 5. Virginia Grant |   Canada | 1:05.4 | +3.4s | 2 | _ |  | 6. Shelley Mann |   United States | 1:05.6 | +3.6s | 7 | 19 |  | 7. Marion Roe |   New Zealand | 1:05.6 | +3.6s | 6 | 21 |  | 8. Natalie Ann Myburgh |   South Africa | 1:05.8 | +3.8s | 8 | 16 |   
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| Heat S1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Dawn Fraser |   Australia | 1:03.0 |   | 4 | 19 | 1. |  | 2. Faith Leech |   Australia | 1:05.2 | +2.2s | 5 | 15 | 3. |  | 3. Joan Rosazza |   United States | 1:05.9 | +2.9s | 6 | 19 | 7. |  | 4. Natalie Ann Myburgh |   South Africa | 1:06.0 | +3.0s | 3 | 16 | 8. |  | 5. Valeria Gyenge |   Hungary | 1:06.4 | +3.4s | 7 | 23 | 11. |  | 6. Zsuzsa Ordogh |   Hungary | 1:06.9 | +3.9s | 2 | 16 | 14. |  | 7. Helen Stewart |   Canada | 1:06.9 | +3.9s | 1 | _ | 14. |  | 8. Birgit Klomp |   UT Germany | 1:07.9 | +4.9s | 8 | 16 | 16. |   
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| Heat S2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Lorraine Crapp |   Australia | 1:03.1 | +0.1s | 4 | 18 | 2. |  | 2. Marion Roe |   New Zealand | 1:05.3 | +2.3s | 6 | 21 | 4. |  | 3. Virginia Grant |   Canada | 1:05.5 | +2.5s | 5 | _ | 5. |  | 4. Shelley Mann |   United States | 1:05.5 | +2.5s | 3 | 19 | 6. |  | 5. Kate Jobson |   Sweden | 1:06.1 | +3.1s | 1 | 19 | 9. |  | 6. Nancy Simons |   United States | 1:06.1 | +3.1s | 2 | 18 | 9. |  | 7. Susan Roberts |   South Africa | 1:06.6 | +3.6s | 8 | 17 | 12. |  | 8. Jeanette Myburgh |   South Africa | 1:06.7 | +3.7s | 7 | 16 | 13. |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Lorraine Crapp |   Australia | 1:03.4 | +1.0s OR | 4 | 18 | 2. |  | 2. Joan Rosazza |   United States | 1:05.5 | +3.1s | 5 | 19 | 7. |  | 3. Jeanette Myburgh |   South Africa | 1:07.1 | +4.7s | 7 | 16 | 12. |  | 3. Helen Stewart |   Canada | 1:07.1 | +4.7s | 6 | _ | 12. |  | 5. Anita Hellstrom |   Sweden | 1:08.5 | +6.1s | 8 | 16 | 20. |  | 6. Irene Sweyd |   Belgium | 1:08.9 | +6.5s | 1 | 16 | 26. |  | 7. Winifred Griffin |   New Zealand | 1:10.4 | +8.0s | 3 | 24 | 32. |  | 8. Margaret Northrop |   Kenya | 1:12.8 | +10.4s | 2 | 22 | 34. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Nancy Simons |   United States | 1:06.5 | +4.1s | 4 | 18 | 9. |  | 2. Katalin Szoke |   Hungary | 1:08.0 | +5.6s | 6 | 21 | 17. |  | 3. Katharine Jansen |   UT Germany | 1:08.3 | +5.9s | 3 | 22 | 19. |  | 4. Odile Vouaux |   France | 1:08.6 | +6.2s | 2 | _ | 22. |  | 5. Fearne Ewart |   Great Britain | 1:08.8 | +6.4s | 5 | 20 | 23. |  | 6. Setsuko Shimada |   Japan | 1:11.8 | +9.4s | 1 | 18 | 33. |  | -. Anita Andersson |   Sweden | DNS |   | 7 | 21 |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Marion Roe |   New Zealand | 1:05.9 | +3.5s | 6 | 21 | 8. |  | 2. Valeria Gyenge |   Hungary | 1:06.6 | +4.2s | 4 | 23 | 11. |  | 3. Birgit Klomp |   UT Germany | 1:07.7 | +5.3s | 5 | 16 | 15. |  | 4. Heda Frost |   France | 1:08.8 | +6.4s | 3 | 20 | 23. |  | 5. Blanca Luz Barron Serrano |   Mexico | 1:09.5 | +7.1s | 7 | 22 | 28. |  | 6. Yoshiko Sato |   Japan | 1:10.3 | +7.9s | 1 | 18 | 30. |  | 7. Gertrudes Lozada |   Philippines | 1:13.7 | +11.3s | 2 | _ | 35. |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Faith Leech |   Australia | 1:04.9 | +2.5s | 4 | 15 | 3. |  | 2. Zsuzsa Ordogh |   Hungary | 1:06.5 | +4.1s | 5 | 16 | 9. |  | 3. Kate Jobson |   Sweden | 1:07.3 | +4.9s | 3 | 19 | 14. |  | 4. Susan Roberts |   South Africa | 1:07.9 | +5.5s | 7 | 17 | 16. |  | 5. Christel Steffin |   UT Germany | 1:08.1 | +5.7s | 6 | 16 | 18. |  | 6. Hitomi Jinno |   Japan | 1:08.8 | +6.4s | 2 | 19 | 23. |  | 7. Gladys Priestley |   Canada | 1:09.2 | +6.8s | 1 | 18 | 27. |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Dawn Fraser |   Australia | 1:02.4 | OR | 6 | 19 | 1. |  | 2. Virginia Grant |   Canada | 1:05.1 | +2.7s | 3 | _ | 4. |  | 2. Natalie Ann Myburgh |   South Africa | 1:05.1 | +2.7s | 5 | 16 | 4. |  | 4. Shelley Mann |   United States | 1:05.4 | +3.0s | 4 | 19 | 6. |  | 5. Frances Hogben |   Great Britain | 1:08.5 | +6.1s | 7 | 19 | 20. |  | 6. Ginette Jany-Sendral |   France | 1:09.9 | +7.5s | 2 | 24 | 29. |  | 7. Shoshana Rivner |   Israel | 1:10.3 | +7.9s | 1 | 18 | 30. |   
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