Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
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| Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex | ||||||||||||
| Date | 24 July | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:58.33 OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Freestyle | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Individual medley | ||
| 400 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | |
| Medley relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women |
The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Cynthia Woodhead (USA) |
1:58.23 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 September 1979 |
| Olympic record |  Kornelia Ender (GDR) |
1:59.26 | Montreal, Canada | 22 July 1976 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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| 24 July | Final | Barbara Krause | East Germany |
1:58.33 | OR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 2 | Ines Diers | East Germany |
2:00.27 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Barbara Krause | East Germany |
2:01.18 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Carmela Schmidt | East Germany |
2:02.32 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Olga Klevakina |  Soviet Union |
2:02.36 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Reggie de Jong |  Netherlands |
2:02.66 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Nataliya Strunnikova | Soviet Union |
2:03.36 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Irina Aksyonova | Soviet Union |
2:03.63 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | June Croft | Great Britain |
2:03.95 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Annelies Maas | Netherlands |
2:04.07 | |
| 10 | 3 | Rosemary Brown | Australia |
2:04.59 | |
| 11 | 4 | Guylaine Berger | France |
2:04.60 | |
| 12 | 4 | Pascale Verbauwen | Belgium |
2:05.34 | |
| 13 | 3 | Sonya Dangalakova |  Bulgaria |
2:05.67 | |
| 14 | 1 | Natalia Más |  Spain |
2:05.73 | |
| 15 | 4 | Tina Gustafsson |  Sweden |
2:05.84 | |
| 16 | 2 | Karen Van der Graaf | Australia |
2:06.06 | |
| 17 | 1 | Sofia Dara |  Greece |
2:07.56 | |
| 18 | 3 | Jacquelene Willmott | Great Britain |
2:08.04 | |
| 19 | 2 | Dobrinka Mincheva | Bulgaria |
2:09.09 | |
| 20 | 3 | Irinel Pănulescu |  Romania |
2:09.94 | |
| 21 | 4 | Celeste García |  Peru |
2:13.05 | |
| 22 | 3 | Soad Fezzani |  Libya |
2:30.14 | |
| 1 | Isabel Reuss |  Mexico |
DNS | ||
| 2 | Agneta Eriksson | Sweden |
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| 2 | María París |  Costa Rica |
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| 4 | Michelle Ford | Australia |
Final
[edit]| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Barbara Krause | East Germany |
1:58.33 | OR |
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Ines Diers | East Germany |
1:59.64 | |
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Carmela Schmidt | East Germany |
2:01.44 | |
| 4 | Olga Klevakina | Soviet Union |
2:02.29 | |
| 5 | Reggie de Jong | Netherlands |
2:02.76 | |
| 6 | June Croft | Great Britain |
2:03.15 | |
| 7 | Natalya Strunnikova | Soviet Union |
2:03.74 | |
| 8 | Irina Aksyonova | Soviet Union |
2:04.00 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 474. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
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