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. 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

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Nina Petrova2:27.20
2Anita Zarnowiecki2:29.08
3Gail Neall2:29.64
4Karen James2:31.25
5Debra Cain2:31.82
6Eleni Avlonitou2:39.10
7Patricia López2:42.08

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Evelyn Stolze2:25.45
2Leslie Cliff2:25.59
3Jaroslava Slavíčková2:27.33
4Hennie Penterman2:28.99
5Éva Kiss2:32.68
6Hsu Yue-yun2:35.93
7María Ballesteros2:37.00

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jenny Bartz2:25.83
2Brigitte Schuchardt2:30.04
3Martha Nelson2:30.51
4Shelagh Ratcliffe2:31.04
5Gerda Lassooij2:32.92
6Eva Sigg2:33.61
7Gisela Cerezo2:35.34
8Laura Vaca2:34.35DQ

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Kornelia Ender2:25.39
2Carolyn Woods2:26.98
3Susan Hunter2:30.29
4Wijda Mazereeuw2:32.59
5Avis Willington2:32.64
6Maria Isabel Guerra2:32.95
7Kirsten Strange-Campbell2:33.15

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Lynn Vidali2:24.92
2Yoshimi Nishigawa2:26.61
3Birutė Užkuraitytė2:31.11
4Susan Richardson2:31.24
5Judit Turóczy2:32.63
6Trine Krogh2:36.27
7Felicia Ospitaletche2:37.69

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shane Gould2:26.44
2Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss2:28.05
3Yukari Takemoto2:29.41
4Susanne Niesner2:30.87
5Karin Bormann2:31.19
6Helmi Boxberger2:33.71
7Roselina Angee2:45.46
8Ong Mei Lin2:48.13

Final

Key: WR = World record