Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics, took place on 11–12 October, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the ninth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 27 competitors from 15 nations participated in the event.[1] Soviet Union's Galina Prozumenshchikova and Svetlana Babanina won their country's first ever medals in this event, with a gold and bronze medal respectively. Claudia Kolb's silver medal was the United States' second ever medal in this event, after Agnes Geraghty's silver in the inaugural event in 1924. In the heats, Australian Christine Barnetson was disqualified for an incorrect breaststroke, and Hungarian Márta Egerváry withdrew from the competition.[2]

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Left-right: Babanina, Prozumenschikova, Kolb
VenueYoyogi National Gymnasium
Date11 October (heats)
12 October (final)
Competitors27 from 15 nations
Winning time2:46.4 (OR)
Medalists
Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union
Claudia Kolb  United States
Svetlana Babanina  Soviet Union
Swimming at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS)2:45.4 sBerlin, East Germany17 May 1964[3]
Olympic record Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)2:49.5 sRome, Italy27 August 1960[3]

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeORWR
11 OctoberHeat 2Bärbel Grimmer United Team of Germany2:48.6OR
11 OctoberHeat 3Svetlana Babanina Soviet Union2:48.3OR
12 OctoberFinalGalina Prozumenshchikova Soviet Union2:46.4OR

Results

Heats
RankHeatLane[4]NameNationalityTimeNotes
131 Svetlana Babanina Soviet Union 2:48.3Q, OR[5]
224 Bärbel Grimmer United Team of Germany 2:48.6Q, OR[5]
337 Stella Mitchell Great Britain 2:48.8Q
421 Galina Prozumenshchikova Soviet Union 2:49.0Q
536 Claudia Kolb United States 2:49.7Q
633 Ursula Küper United Team of Germany 2:50.1Q
742 Jill Slattery Great Britain 2:50.2Q
811 Klenie Bimolt Netherlands 2:50.7Q
917 Marguerite Ruygrok Australia 2:53.1
1016 Wiltrud Urselmann United Team of Germany 2:53.2
1141 Vivien Haddon New Zealand 2:53.4
1243 Truus Looijs Netherlands 2:54.5
1327 Jacqueline Enfield Great Britain 2:54.9
1414 Tammy Hazleton United States 2:55.0
1525 Gretta Kok Netherlands 2:55.4
1635 Isabel Castañe Spain 2:55.7
1713 Noriko Yamamoto Japan 2:57.0
1846 Sandra Nitta United States 2:58.4
1945 Christl Filippovits Austria 2:59.2
2034 Linda McGill Australia 2:59.4
2147 Yoshiko Morizane Japan 2:59.9
2226 Susana Peper Argentina 3:00.0
2315 Zsuzsa Kovács Hungary 3:06.7
2432 Marny Jolly Malaysia 3:11.0
2512 Margaret Harding Puerto Rico 3:16.0
2644 Li Hin Yu Hong Kong 3:22.2
2723 Christine Barnetson Australia —DSQ[3]

Final
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
6 Galina Prozumenshchikova Soviet Union 2:46.4OR[3]
2 Claudia Kolb United States 2:47.6
4 Svetlana Babanina Soviet Union 2:48.6
43 Stella Mitchell Great Britain 2:49.0
51 Jill Slattery Great Britain 2:49.6
65 Bärbel Grimmer United Team of Germany 2:51.0
78 Klenie Bimolt Netherlands 2:51.3
87 Ursula Küper United Team of Germany 2:53.9

References
  1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. "Reynolds Qualifies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 12 October 1964. p. 17.
  3. "The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964: The Official Report of the Organising Committee" (PDF). Volume Two, Part 2. Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo. 1964. pp. 532–533. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  4. Albert Schoenfeld, ed. (29 September 1964). "Results from the 1964 Olympic Games (Tokyo)" (PDF). Swimming World & Junior Swimmer. Albert Schoenfeld. p. 46. ISSN 0039-7431. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  5. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke Round One". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
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