Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre butterfly''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4.This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Medalists ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Rosemarie Kother   2:18.32  '''Q''', '''OR'''  2  Mayumi Aoki   2:23.01  ''' Q '''  3   Anca Groza   2:30.32  ''' ''' 4  Grisel Mendoza   2:35.85  ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Ellie Daniel   2:17.18  '''Q''', '''OR'''  2  Jean Jeavons   2:27.59    3   Eva Wikner   2:29.03  ''' ''' 4  Margrit Thomet   2:29.21  ''' ''' 5   Věra Faitlová   2:29.34  ''' ''' 6   Moira Brown   2:30.08  ''' ''' 7  Jennifer McHugh   2:30.36  ''' ''''''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Lynn Colella   2:18.80  '''Q'''  2  Noriko Asano   2:20.09  ''' Q '''  3   Gail Neall   2:23.21  '''Q''' 4  Frieke Buys   2:24.20  ''' ''' 5   Olga de Angulo   2:34.69  ''' ''' 6   Hsu Yue-yun   2:44.88  ''' ''''''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Karen Moe   2:18.15  '''Q'''  2  Helga Lindner   2:20.00  ''' Q '''  3   Brigitte Mertz   2:24.92  ''' ''' 4  Sue Funch   2:26.69  ''' ''' 5   Eva Sigg   2:27.64  ''' ''' 6   Ileana Morales   2:28.41  ''' ''' 7  Maria Isabel Guerra   2:32.60  ''' '''"'''Q'''": Qualified===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Karen Moe   2:15.57  '''WR'''  2 Lynn Colella   2:16.34  '''  '''  3  Ellie Daniel   2:16.74  ''' ''' 4  Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel   2:17.11  ''' ''' 5   Noriko Asano   2:19.50  ''' ''' 6   Helga Lindner   2:20.47  ''' ''' 7  Gail Neall   2:21.88  ''' ''' 8  Mayumi Aoki   2:22.84  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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