Women’s 100m Olympic Swimming: Comparing Strokes and Eras

Boxplots
Confidence Intervals
Two-Sample Tests
This module explores results from women’s 100m Olympic swimming events between 1964 and 2024, comparing different strokes and examining how times have changed over time.
Authors
Affiliation

Brendan Karadenes

St. Lawrence University

Ivan Ramler

St. Lawrence University

Robin Lock

St. Lawrence University

Published

September 25, 2025

This module is now fully published and available on the SCORE Network Module Repository.

Click the following link to access the materials (opens a new tab): https://modules.scorenetwork.org/swimming/olympic_swimming_100m/

Acknowledgements

Thumbnail photo taken from https://swimswam.com/tokyo-2020-olympic-previews-no-room-for-error-in-the-womens-50-freestyle/, archive photo via Jaimi Joy, <www.jaimijoy.com>