Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle


The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 2 and 3. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated. 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 sixteen lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Novella Calligaris9:02.96
2Andrea Eife9:22.88
3Barbara Schwarzfeldt9:24.89
4María Teresa Ramírez9:25.09
5Françoise Monod9:50.73
6Hsu Yue-yun10:08.49
7Eleni Avlonitou10:10.88

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Keena Rothhammer8:59.69
2Hansje Bunschoten9:21.13
3Uta Schütz9:22.93
4Olga de Angulo9:43.27
5Helga Wagner9:44.17
6Olga Petrusyova10:04.96
7Silvia Borgini10:09.19

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Ann Simmons9:11.94
2Narelle Moras9:17.95
3Roselina Angee9:38.08
4June Green9:39.91
5Laura Vaca9:50.10
6Belinda Phillips9:53.99
7Avis Willington10:10.91

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shane Gould9:10.84
2Gudrun Wegner9:11.32
3Karin Tülling9:25.73
4Federica Stabilini9:27.84
5Mary Beth Rondeau9:43.31
6Antonella Valentini9:49.07
7Patricia López10:06.39

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jo Harshbarger9:14.46
2Karen Moras9:25.11
3Jaynie Parkhouse9:34.65
4Karen LeGresley9:37.13
5Brenda Holmes9:39.44
6Susan Jones9:47.35
7Kirsten Knudsen10:02.56
8Aisling O'Leary10:18.05

Final

Key: WR = World record