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Date: 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956 / 1 December 1956
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Dawn Fraser | AUS | 1:02.0 |
| 2 | Lorraine Crapp | AUS | 1:02.3 |
| 3 | Faith Leech | AUS | 1:05.1 |
| 4 | Joan Rosazza | USA | 1:05.2 |
| 5 | Virginia Grant | CAN | 1:05.4 |
| 6 | Shelley Mann | USA | 1:05.6 |
| 7 | Marrion Douglas Roe | NZL | 1:05.6 |
| 8 | Natalie Myburgh | RSA | 1:05.8 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Nancy Simons | USA | 1:06.1 |
| 9 | Kate Jobson | SWE | 1:06.1 |
| 11 | Valeria Gyenge | HUN | 1:06.4 |
| 12 | Susan Roberts | RSA | 1:06.6 |
| 13 | Jeanette Myburgh | RSA | 1:06.7 |
| 14 | Zsuzsa Ordogh | HUN | 1:06.9 |
| 14 | Helen Stewart | CAN | 1:06.9 |
| 16 | Birgit Klomp | GER | 1:07.9 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Katalin Szoke | HUN | 1:08.0 |
| 18 | Christel Steffin | GER | 1:08.1 |
| 19 | Kati Jansen | GER | 1:08.3 |
| 20 | Anita Hellstrom | SWE | 1:08.5 |
| 21 | Odile Vouaux | FRA | 1:08.6 |
| 22 | Fearne Ewart | GBR | 1:08.8 |
| 22 | Heda Frost | FRA | 1:08.8 |
| 22 | Hitomi Jinno | JPN | 1:08.8 |
| 25 | Irene Sweyd | BEL | 1:08.9 |
| 26 | Gladys Priestley | CAN | 1:09.2 |
| 27 | Blanca Barron | MEX | 1:09.5 |
| 28 | Frances Hogben | GBR | 1:09.9 |
| 28 | Ginette Sendral | FRA | 1:09.9 |
| 30 | Yoshiko Sato | JPN | 1:10.3 |
| 30 | Shoshana Rivner | ISR | 1:10.3 |
| 32 | Winifred Griffin | NZL | 1:10.4 |
| 33 | Setsuko Shimada | JPN | 1:11.8 |
| 34 | Margaret Northrop | KEN | 1:12.8 |
| 35 | Gertrudes Lozada | PHI | 1:13.7 |