Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke

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Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueOlympia Schwimmhalle
Dates4 September 1972 (heats & final)
Competitors37 from 20 nations
Winning time2:19.19 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Melissa Belote  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Susie Atwood  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Donna Gurr  Canada
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Swimming at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
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The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists[]

Gold Melissa Belote
 United States
Silver Susie Atwood
 United States
Bronze Donna Gurr
 Canada

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Annegret Kober  West Germany 2:24.88
2 Wendy Cook-Hogg  Canada 2:25.71
3 Suzuko Matsumura  Japan 2:26.95
4 María Teresa Ramírez  Mexico 2:27.47
5 Annemarie Groen  Netherlands 2:29.17
6 Diana Ashton  Great Britain 2:29.95

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Susie Atwood  United States 2:22.13
2 Deborah Palmer  Australia 2:24.25
3 Susanne Hilger  East Germany 2:27.88
4 Susan Hunter  New Zealand 2:28.28
5 Kikuyo Ishii  Japan 2:29.66
6 Zdenka Gašparač  Yugoslavia 2:33.57
7 Christine Fulcher  Ireland 2:33.73
8 Pat Chan  Singapore 2:41.27

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Leslie Cliff  Canada 2:25.08
2 Karin Bormann  West Germany 2:25.59
3 Lynn Skrifvars  United States 2:26.40
4 Debra Cain  Australia 2:27.14
5 Josien Elzerman  Netherlands 2:28.18
6 Kazu Fujimura  Japan 2:30.37
7 Felicia Ospitaletche  Uruguay 2:37.88

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Enith Brigitha  Netherlands 2:23.70
2 Donna-Marie Gurr  Canada 2:25.33
3 Sylvie Le Noach  France 2:27.18
4 Tina Lek'veishvili  Soviet Union 2:28.22
5 Susanne Niesner  Switzerland 2:28.62
6 Pamela Bairstow  Great Britain 2:29.28
7 María Cecilia Vargas  Mexico 2:37.54
8 Ong Mei Lin  Malaysia 2:46.40

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Melissa Belote  United States 2:20.58
2 Christine Herbst  East Germany 2:25.09
3 Sue Lewis  Australia 2:25.34
4 Andrea Gyarmati  Hungary 2:25.81
5 Nataliya Yershova  Soviet Union 2:29.46
6 Angelika Kraus  West Germany 2:31.16
7 Patricia López  Argentina 2:33.41
8 Diana Sutherland  Great Britain 2:37.61

Final[]

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Melissa Belote  United States 2:19.19 WR
2 Susie Atwood  United States 2:20.38
3 Donna Gurr  Canada 2:23.22
4 Annegret Kober  West Germany 2:23.35
5 Christine Herbst  East Germany 2:23.44
6 Enith Brigitha  Netherlands 2:23.70
7 Deborah Palmer  Australia 2:24.65
8 Leslie Cliff  Canada 2:25.80

Key: WR = World record

References[]

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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