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.[1] 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

GoldShane Gould
 Australia
SilverKornelia Ender
 East Germany
BronzeLynn Vidali
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Nina Petrova Soviet Union2:27.20
2Anita Zarnowiecki Sweden2:29.08
3Gail Neall Australia2:29.64
4Karen James Canada2:31.25
5Debra Cain Australia2:31.82
6Eleni Avlonitou Greece2:39.10
7Patricia López Argentina2:42.08

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Evelyn Stolze East Germany2:25.45
2Leslie Cliff Canada2:25.59
3Jaroslava Slavíčková Czechoslovakia2:27.33
4Hennie Penterman Netherlands2:28.99
5Éva Kiss Hungary2:32.68
6Hsu Yue-yun Chinese Taipei2:35.93
7María Ballesteros Mexico2:37.00

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jenny Bartz United States2:25.83
2Brigitte Schuchardt East Germany2:30.04
3Martha Nelson Canada2:30.51
4Shelagh Ratcliffe Great Britain2:31.04
5Gerda Lassooij Netherlands2:32.92
6Eva Sigg Finland2:33.61
7Gisela Cerezo Venezuela2:35.34
8Laura Vaca Mexico2:34.35DQ

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Kornelia Ender East Germany2:25.39
2Carolyn Woods United States2:26.98
3Susan Hunter New Zealand2:30.29
4Wijda Mazereeuw Netherlands2:32.59
5Avis Willington Great Britain2:32.64
6Maria Isabel Guerra Brazil2:32.95
7Kirsten Strange-Campbell Denmark2:33.15

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Lynn Vidali United States2:24.92
2Yoshimi Nishigawa Japan2:26.61
3Birutė Užkuraitytė Soviet Union2:31.11
4Susan Richardson Great Britain2:31.24
5Judit Turóczy Hungary2:32.63
6Trine Krogh Norway2:36.27
7Felicia Ospitaletche Uruguay2:37.69

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shane Gould Australia2:26.44
2Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss Hungary2:28.05
3Yukari Takemoto Japan2:29.41
4Susanne Niesner Switzerland2:30.87
5Karin Bormann West Germany2:31.19
6Helmi Boxberger West Germany2:33.71
7Roselina Angee Colombia2:45.46
8Ong Mei Lin Malaysia2:48.13

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Shane Gould Australia2:23.07WR
Kornelia Ender East Germany2:23.59
Lynn Vidali United States2:24.06
4Jenny Bartz United States2:24.55
5Leslie Cliff Canada2:24.83
6Evelyn Stolze East Germany2:25.90
7Yoshimi Nishigawa Japan2:26.35
8Carolyn Woods United States2:27.42

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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