Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics | ||
---|---|---|
![]() | ||
Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 1.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Medalists[]
Gold | Shane Gould![]() |
Silver | Shirley Babashoff![]() |
Bronze | Keena Rothhammer![]() |
Results[]
Heats[]
Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ann Marshall | ![]() |
2:08.12 | OR, Q |
2 | Karin Tülling | ![]() |
2:09.01 | Q |
3 | Jutta Weber | ![]() |
2:12.44 | |
4 | Merrily Stratten | ![]() |
2:12.44 | |
5 | Heather Coombridge | ![]() |
2:14.78 | |
6 | Karen LeGresley | ![]() |
2:16.34 | |
7 | Belinda Phillips | ![]() |
2:19.49 |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anke Rijnders | ![]() |
2:09.09 | Q |
2 | Helen Gray | ![]() |
2:12.76 | |
3 | Nadezhda Matyukhina | ![]() |
2:13.60 | |
4 | Françoise Monod | ![]() |
2:15.30 | |
5 | Olga de Angulo | ![]() |
2:17.34 | |
6 | Silvia Borgini | ![]() |
2:23.11 |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Keena Rothhammer | ![]() |
2:07.48 | OR, Q |
2 | Hansje Bunschoten | ![]() |
2:08.58 | Q |
3 | Tatyana Zolotnitskaya | ![]() |
2:13.12 | |
4 | Yelena Timoshenko | ![]() |
2:14.06 | |
5 | Diana Sutherland | ![]() |
2:16.00 | |
6 | Ileana Morales | ![]() |
2:18.84 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shane Gould | ![]() |
2:07.95 | Q |
2 | Deborah Palmer | ![]() |
2:10.29 | |
3 | Uta Schütz | ![]() |
2:12.84 | |
4 | Mary Beth Rondeau | ![]() |
2:13.52 | |
5 | Susan Edmondson | ![]() |
2:13.54 | |
6 | Lucy Burle | ![]() |
2:18.57 | |
7 | Marcia Arriaga | ![]() |
2:18.93 |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andrea Eife | ![]() |
2:07.95 | OR, Q |
2 | Shirley Babashoff | ![]() |
2:08.48 | Q |
3 | Gudrun Wegner | ![]() |
2:09.49 | |
4 | Angela Steinbach | ![]() |
2:10.59 | |
5 | Lesley Allardice | ![]() |
2:13.43 | |
6 | Roselina Angel | ![]() |
2:18.62 | |
7 | Hsu Yue-yun | ![]() |
2:20.17 |
Final[]
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Shane Gould | ![]() |
2:03.56 | WR |
![]() |
Shirley Babashoff | ![]() |
2:04.33 | |
![]() |
Keena Rothhammer | ![]() |
2:04.92 | |
4 | Ann Marshall | ![]() |
2:05.45 | |
5 | Andrea Eife | ![]() |
2:06.27 | |
6 | Hansje Bunschoten | ![]() |
2:08.40 | |
7 | Anke Rijnders | ![]() |
2:09.41 | |
8 | Karin Tülling | ![]() |
2:11.70 |
Key: WR = World record
References[]
- ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
Categories:
- Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- 1972 in women's swimming
- Women's events at the 1972 Summer Olympics