Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly


The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. This was the first time for this event for the women swimmers.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Diane Giebel2:33.0
2Yasuko Fujii2:33.4
3Margaret Auton2:33.6
4Sandra Whittleston2:39.7
5Carmen Gómez2:44.7

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Ellie Daniel2:29.4
2Vivienne Smith2:39.7
3Jeanne Warren2:40.7
4Lyn McClements2:40.7
5Lotten Andersson2:42.1
6Lidia Ramírez2:42.1

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Toni Hewitt2:29.1
2Heike Hustede-Nagel2:32.1
3Christine Strübing2:39.0
4Nam Sang-nam2:58.6

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Ada Kok2:26.3
2Helga Lindner2:29.4
3Tetiana Dev'iatova2:34.7
4Marilyn Corson2:41.8
5Pauline Gray2:43.6
6Kristina Moir2:51.1

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Ada Kok2:24.7OR
Helga Lindner2:24.8
Ellie Daniel2:25.9
4Toni Hewitt2:26.2
5Heike Hustede-Nagel2:27.9
6Diane Giebel2:31.7
7Margaret Auton2:33.2
8Yasuko Fujii2:34.3

Key: OR = Olympic record