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


The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4. 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.

Medalists

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Rosemarie Kother2:18.32Q, OR
2Mayumi Aoki2:23.01 Q
3Anca Groza2:30.32
4Grisel Mendoza2:35.85

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Ellie Daniel2:17.18Q, OR
2Jean Jeavons2:27.59
3Eva Wikner2:29.03
4Margrit Thomet2:29.21
5Věra Faitlová2:29.34
6Moira Brown2:30.08
7Jennifer McHugh2:30.36

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Lynn Colella2:18.80Q
2Noriko Asano2:20.09 Q
3Gail Neall2:23.21Q
4Frieke Buys2:24.20
5Olga de Angulo2:34.69
6Hsu Yue-yun2:44.88

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Karen Moe2:18.15Q
2Helga Lindner2:20.00 Q
3Brigitte Mertz2:24.92
4Sue Funch2:26.69
5Eva Sigg2:27.64
6Ileana Morales2:28.41
7Maria Isabel Guerra2:32.60

"Q": Qualified

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Karen Moe2:15.57WR
Lynn Colella2:16.34
Ellie Daniel2:16.74
4Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel2:17.11
5Noriko Asano2:19.50
6Helga Lindner2:20.47
7Gail Neall2:21.88
8Mayumi Aoki2:22.84

Key: WR = World record