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

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 28.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

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Gold Shane Gould
  Australia
Silver Kornelia Ender
  East Germany
Bronze Lynn Vidali
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Nina Petrova   Soviet Union 2:27.20
2 Anita Zarnowiecki   Sweden 2:29.08
3 Gail Neall   Australia 2:29.64
4 Karen James   Canada 2:31.25
5 Debra Cain   Australia 2:31.82
6 Eleni Avlonitou   Greece 2:39.10
7 Patricia López   Argentina 2:42.08

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Evelyn Stolze   East Germany 2:25.45
2 Leslie Cliff   Canada 2:25.59
3 Jaroslava Slavíčková   Czechoslovakia 2:27.33
4 Hennie Penterman   Netherlands 2:28.99
5 Éva Kiss   Hungary 2:32.68
6 Hsu Yue-yun   Chinese Taipei 2:35.93
7 María Ballesteros   Mexico 2:37.00

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jenny Bartz   United States 2:25.83
2 Brigitte Schuchardt   East Germany 2:30.04
3 Martha Nelson   Canada 2:30.51
4 Shelagh Ratcliffe   Great Britain 2:31.04
5 Gerda Lassooij   Netherlands 2:32.92
6 Eva Sigg   Finland 2:33.61
7 Gisela Cerezo   Venezuela 2:35.34
8 Laura Vaca   Mexico 2:34.35 DQ

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Kornelia Ender   East Germany 2:25.39
2 Carolyn Woods   United States 2:26.98
3 Susan Hunter   New Zealand 2:30.29
4 Wijda Mazereeuw   Netherlands 2:32.59
5 Avis Willington   Great Britain 2:32.64
6 Maria Isabel Guerra   Brazil 2:32.95
7 Kirsten Strange-Campbell   Denmark 2:33.15

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Lynn Vidali   United States 2:24.92
2 Yoshimi Nishigawa   Japan 2:26.61
3 Birutė Užkuraitytė   Soviet Union 2:31.11
4 Susan Richardson   Great Britain 2:31.24
5 Judit Turóczy   Hungary 2:32.63
6 Trine Krogh   Norway 2:36.27
7 Felicia Ospitaletche   Uruguay 2:37.69

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Shane Gould   Australia 2:26.44
2 Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss   Hungary 2:28.05
3 Yukari Takemoto   Japan 2:29.41
4 Susanne Niesner   Switzerland 2:30.87
5 Karin Bormann   West Germany 2:31.19
6 Helmi Boxberger   West Germany 2:33.71
7 Roselina Angee   Colombia 2:45.46
8 Ong Mei Lin   Malaysia 2:48.13

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Shane Gould   Australia 2:23.07 WR
  Kornelia Ender   East Germany 2:23.59
  Lynn Vidali   United States 2:24.06
4 Jenny Bartz   United States 2:24.55
5 Leslie Cliff   Canada 2:24.83
6 Evelyn Stolze   East Germany 2:25.90
7 Yoshimi Nishigawa   Japan 2:26.35
8 Carolyn Woods   United States 2:27.42

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2016.