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

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

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Gold Shane Gould
  Australia
Silver Shirley Babashoff
  United States
Bronze Keena Rothhammer
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ann Marshall   United States 2:08.12 OR, Q
2 Karin Tülling   East Germany 2:09.01 Q
3 Jutta Weber   West Germany 2:12.44
4 Merrily Stratten   Canada 2:12.44
5 Heather Coombridge   New Zealand 2:14.78
6 Karen LeGresley   Canada 2:16.34
7 Belinda Phillips   Jamaica 2:19.49

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Anke Rijnders   Netherlands 2:09.09 Q
2 Helen Gray   Australia 2:12.76
3 Nadezhda Matyukhina   Soviet Union 2:13.60
4 Françoise Monod   Switzerland 2:15.30
5 Olga de Angulo   Colombia 2:17.34
6 Silvia Borgini   Argentina 2:23.11

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Keena Rothhammer   United States 2:07.48 OR, Q
2 Hansje Bunschoten   Netherlands 2:08.58 Q
3 Tatyana Zolotnitskaya   Soviet Union 2:13.12
4 Yelena Timoshenko   Soviet Union 2:14.06
5 Diana Sutherland   Great Britain 2:16.00
6 Ileana Morales   Venezuela 2:18.84

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Shane Gould   Australia 2:07.95 Q
2 Deborah Palmer   Australia 2:10.29
3 Uta Schütz   West Germany 2:12.84
4 Mary Beth Rondeau   Canada 2:13.52
5 Susan Edmondson   Great Britain 2:13.54
6 Lucy Burle   Brazil 2:18.57
7 Marcia Arriaga   Mexico 2:18.93

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Andrea Eife   East Germany 2:07.95 OR, Q
2 Shirley Babashoff   United States 2:08.48 Q
3 Gudrun Wegner   East Germany 2:09.49
4 Angela Steinbach   West Germany 2:10.59
5 Lesley Allardice   Great Britain 2:13.43
6 Roselina Angel   Colombia 2:18.62
7 Hsu Yue-yun   Chinese Taipei 2:20.17

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Shane Gould   Australia 2:03.56 WR
  Shirley Babashoff   United States 2:04.33
  Keena Rothhammer   United States 2:04.92
4 Ann Marshall   United States 2:05.45
5 Andrea Eife   East Germany 2:06.27
6 Hansje Bunschoten   Netherlands 2:08.40
7 Anke Rijnders   Netherlands 2:09.41
8 Karin Tülling   East Germany 2:11.70

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "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.