Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Date	8–10 August
Competitors	33 from 14 nations
Medalists
Rie Mastenbroek  Netherlands Jeannette Campbell  Argentina Gisela Arendt  Germany
← 1932 1948 →

Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
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The women's 100 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the sixth appearance of the event, which was established in 1912. The competition was held from Saturday to Monday, 8 to 10 August 1936.

Thirty-three swimmers from 14 nations competed.

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1:04.6	Willy den Ouden	Amsterdam (NED)	27 February 1936
Olympic Record	1:06.8	Helene Madison	Los Angeles (USA)	8 August 1932

Rie Mastenbroek set a new Olympic record in the first heat with 1 minute 06.4 seconds and equaled her time in the first semi-final. In the final she lowered the Olympic record to 1 minute 05.9 seconds.

Saturday 8 August 1936: The fastest three in each heat and the fastest fourth-placed from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Rie Mastenbroek (NED)	1:06.4	Q OR
2	Gisela Arendt (GER)	1:07.3	Q
3	Katherine Rawls (USA)	1:08.5	Q
4	Phyllis Dewar (CAN)	1:09.2	q
5	Eva Arndt (DEN)	1:10.1
6	Margery Hinton (GBR)	1:13.0
7	Rei Takemura (JPN)	1:14.6
8	Scylla Venâncio (BRA)	1:15.1

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:08.1	Q
2	Evelyn de Lacy (AUS)	1:08.5	Q
3	Olive McKean (USA)	1:09.3	Q
4	Ilona Ács (HUN)	1:12.7
5	Irene Pirie-Milton (CAN)	1:12.8
6	Tsuneko Furuta (JPN)	1:14.6

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Jeannette Campbell (ARG)	1:06.8	Q
2	Tini Wagner (NED)	1:08.9	Q
3	Piedade Coutinho (BRA)	1:09.4	Q
4	Elvi Svendsen (DEN)	1:10.3
5	Inge Schmitz (GER)	1:10.9
6	Vera Harsányi (HUN)	1:11.5
7	Zilpha Grant (GBR)	1:12.1

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Ragnhild Hveger (DEN)	1:09.6	Q
2	Kazue Kojima (JPN)	1:11.0	Q
3	Olive Wadham (GBR)	1:11.5	Q
4	Irma Schrameková (TCH)	1:11.8
5	Kitty Mackay (AUS)	1:13.8
6	Helena Salles (BRA)	1:16.2
7	Yeung Sauking (ROC)	1:22.2

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Bernice Lapp (USA)	1:09.0	Q
2	Magda Lenkei (HUN)	1:09.9	Q
3	Margaret Stone (CAN)	1:10.0	Q
4	Leni Lohmar (GER)	1:10.3
5	Renée Blondeau (FRA)	1:10.9

Sunday 9 August 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed from across the heats advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Rie Mastenbroek (NED)	1:06.4	Q =OR
2	Gisela Arendt (GER)	1:07.2	Q
3	Katherine Rawls (USA)	1:08.5	Q
4	Tini Wagner (NED)	1:08.6	q
5	Piedade Coutinho (BRA)	1:09.6
6	Phyllis Dewar (CAN)	1:09.6
7	Kazue Kojima (JPN)	1:11.1
8	Magda Lenkei (HUN)	1:12.1

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Jeannette Campbell (ARG)	1:06.6	Q
2	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:06.7	Q
3	Olive McKean (USA)	1:08.9	Q
4	Bernice Lapp (USA)	1:09.6
5	Evelyn de Lacy (AUS)	1:10.0
6	Olive Wadham (GBR)	1:12.0
7	Margaret Stone (CAN)	1:12.8
8	Ragnhild Hveger (DEN)	1:14.0

Monday 10 August 1936:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Rie Mastenbroek (NED)	1:05.9 OR
2	Jeannette Campbell (ARG)	1:06.4
3	Gisela Arendt (GER)	1:06.6
4	Willy den Ouden (NED)	1:07.6
5	Tini Wagner (NED)	1:08.1
6	Olive McKean (USA)	1:08.4
7	Katherine Rawls (USA)	1:08.7

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 November 2008.