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Date: 28 August 1972 / 28 August 1972 / 29 August 1972
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Sandra Neilson | USA | 58.59 |
| 2 | Shirley Babashoff | USA | 59.02 |
| 3 | Shane Gould | AUS | 59.06 |
| 4 | Gabriele Wetzko | GDR | 59.21 |
| 5 | Heidi Reineck | FRG | 59.73 |
| 6 | Andrea Eife | GDR | 59.91 |
| 7 | Magdolna Patoh | HUN | 1:00.02 |
| 8 | Enith Brigitha | NED | 1:00.09 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Jutta Weber | FRG | 59.90 |
| 10 | Jennifer Kemp | USA | 59.93 |
| 11 | Sylvia Eichner | GDR | 1:00.73 |
| 12 | Hansje Bunschoten | NED | 1:00.79 |
| 13 | Anke Rijnders | NED | 1:00.84 |
| 14 | Tatiana Zolotnizkaia | URS | 1:01.12 |
| 15 | Wendy Cook | CAN | 1:01.26 |
| 16 | Claude Mandonnaud | FRA | 1:01.88 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Mary Beth Rondeau | CAN | 1:01.46 |
| 18 | Grethe Mathisen | NOR | 1:01.47 |
| 19 | Guylaine Berger | FRA | 1:01.54 |
| 20 | Judit Turoczy | HUN | 1:01.57 |
| 21 | Angela Steinbach | FRG | 1:01.66 |
| 22 | Elena Timoshenko | URS | 1:01.68 |
| 23 | Eva Andersson | SWE | 1:01.88 |
| 24 | Leanne Francis | AUS | 1:01.90 |
| 25 | Judy Wright | CAN | 1:01.97 |
| 26 | Sharon Booth | AUS | 1:02.07 |
| 26 | Lesley Allardice | GBR | 1:02.07 |
| 28 | Shigeko Kawanishi | JPN | 1:02.13 |
| 29 | Nadeshda Matuchina | URS | 1:02.14 |
| 30 | Susan Edmondson | GBR | 1:02.29 |
| 31 | Margrit Thomet | SUI | 1:02.33 |
| 32 | Francoise Monod | SUI | 1:02.43 |
| 33 | Chantal Schertz | FRA | 1:02.82 |
| 34 | Laura Podesta | ITA | 1:02.88 |
| 35 | Heather Coombridge | NZL | 1:02.95 |
| 36 | Edit Kovacs | HUN | 1:03.00 |
| 37 | Lucy Maurity Burle | BRA | 1:03.12 |
| 38 | Inger Andersson | SWE | 1:03.40 |
| 39 | Khriska Peitcheva | BUL | 1:03.43 |
| 40 | Marcia Arriaga | MEX | 1:03.66 |
| 41 | Kirsten Campbell | DEN | 1:03.83 |
| 42 | Ileana Morales | VEN | 1:04.13 |
| 43 | Diane Walker | GBR | 1:04.44 |
| 44 | Hsu Yue-Yun | TPE | 1:04.77 |
| 45 | Susana Saxlund | URU | 1:04.91 |
| 46 | Virginia Anchustegui | MEX | 1:04.99 |
| Did not start | |||
| Irwi Johansson | SWE | ||
| Mireille Bassoul | LBN | ||