| Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics |
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| Freestyle | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | women | |||
| 200 m | men | |||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | women | |||
| 4×200 m | men | |||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 26 and 29. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
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| Gold | Dawn Fraser Australia (AUS) |
| Silver | Chris von Saltza United States (USA) |
| Bronze | Natalie Steward Great Britain (GBR) |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn Fraser | Australia | 1:01.2 | OR | |
| Chris von Saltza | United States | 1:02.8 | ||
| Natalie Steward | Great Britain | 1:03.1 | ||
| 4 | Carolyn Wood | United States | 1:03.4 | |
| 5 | Csilla Madarász-Bajnogel-Dobai | Hungary | 1:03.6 | |
| 6 | Erica Terpstra | Netherlands | 1:04.3 | |
| 7 | Cocki van Engelsdorp Gastelaars | Netherlands | 1:04.7 | |
| 8 | Mary Beth Stewart | Canada | 1:05.5 |
Key: OR = Olympic record