Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Introduction 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 (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). 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''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Novella Calligaris   9:02.96   2  Andrea Eife   9:22.88   3  Barbara Schwarzfeldt   9:24.89   4  María Teresa Ramírez   9:25.09   5  Françoise Monod   9:50.73   6  Hsu Yue-yun   10:08.49   7  Eleni Avlonitou   10:10.88  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Keena Rothhammer   8:59.69   2  Hansje Bunschoten   9:21.13   3  Uta Schütz   9:22.93   4  Olga de Angulo   9:43.27   5  Helga Wagner   9:44.17   6  Olga Petrusyova   10:04.96   7  Silvia Borgini   10:09.19  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Ann Simmons   9:11.94   2  Narelle Moras   9:17.95   3  Roselina Angee   9:38.08   4  June Green   9:39.91   5  Laura Vaca   9:50.10   6  Belinda Phillips   9:53.99   7  Avis Willington   10:10.91  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Shane Gould   9:10.84   2  Gudrun Wegner   9:11.32   3  Karin Tülling   9:25.73   4  Federica Stabilini   9:27.84   5  Mary Beth Rondeau   9:43.31   6  Antonella Valentini   9:49.07   7  Patricia López   10:06.39  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Jo Harshbarger   9:14.46   2  Karen Moras   9:25.11   3  Jaynie Parkhouse   9:34.65   4  Karen LeGresley   9:37.13   5  Brenda Holmes   9:39.44   6  Susan Jones   9:47.35   7  Kirsten Knudsen   10:02.56   8  Aisling O'Leary   10:18.05  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Keena Rothhammer   8:53.68  '''WR'''  2 Shane Gould   8:56.39  '''  '''  3  Novella Calligaris   8:57.46  ''' ''' 4  Ann Simmons   8:57.62  ''' ''' 5   Gudrun Wegner   8:58.89  ''' ''' 6   Jo Harshbarger   9:01.21  ''' ''' 7  Hansje Bunschoten   9:16.69  ''' ''' 8  Narelle Moras   9:19.06  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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