| Women 100m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Thursday, 5th December - Gold Nedal: Shelley Mann | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Shelley Mann |  United States | 1:11.0 | OR | 4 | 19 |  | 2. Nancy Ramey |  United States | 1:11.9 | +0.9s | 5 | 16 |  | 3. Mary Sears |  United States | 1:14.4 | +3.4s | 6 | 17 |  | 4. Maria Littomeritzky |  Hungary | 1:14.9 | +3.9s | 2 | 29 |  | 5. Beverley Ann Bainbridge |  Australia | 1:15.2 | +4.2s | 3 | 16 |  | 6. Jutta Langenau |  UT Germany | 1:17.4 | +6.4s | 8 | 23 |  | 7. Beth Whittall |  Canada | 1:17.9 | +6.9s | 1 | 20 |  | 8. Sara Barber |  Canada | 1:18.4 | +7.4s | 7 | 15 | 
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| Heats - Wednesday, 5th December | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Shelley Mann |  United States | 1:11.2 | OR | 4 | 19 | 1. |  | 2. Nancy Ramey |  United States | 1:13.4 | +2.2s | 5 | 16 | 2. |  | 3. Sara Barber |  Canada | 1:16.2 | +5.0s | 6 | 15 | 6. |  | 4. Marta Skupilova |  Czechoslovakia | 1:17.7 | +6.5s | 1 | 18 | 9. |  | 5. Maureen Patricia Giles |  Australia | 1:19.4 | +8.2s | 2 | 18 | 11. |  | -. Moira Abernethy |  South Africa | DNS |  | 3 | 17 |  |  | -. Gertrudes Lozada |  Philippines | DNS |  | 7 | _ |  | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Beverley Ann Bainbridge |  Australia | 1:14.4 | +3.2s | 1 | 16 | 3. |  | 2. Mary Sears |  United States | 1:15.1 | +3.9s | 3 | 17 | 4. |  | 3. Maria Littomeritzky |  Hungary | 1:15.2 | +4.0s | 6 | 29 | 5. |  | 4. Beth Whittall |  Canada | 1:16.9 | +5.7s | 2 | 20 | 7. |  | 5. Jutta Langenau |  UT Germany | 1:17.4 | +6.2s | 5 | 23 | 8. |  | 6. Anne Morton |  Great Britain | 1:17.7 | +6.5s | 4 | 19 | 9. |  | 7. Odette Lusien |  France | 1:19.8 | +8.6s | 7 | 29 | 12. | 
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