Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre backstroke''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4.This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Annegret Kober   2:24.88   2  Wendy Cook-Hogg   2:25.71   3  Suzuko Matsumura   2:26.95   4  María Teresa Ramírez   2:27.47   5  Annemarie Groen   2:29.17   6  Diana Ashton   2:29.95  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Susie Atwood   2:22.13   2  Deborah Palmer   2:24.25   3  Susanne Hilger   2:27.88   4  Susan Hunter   2:28.28   5  Kikuyo Ishii   2:29.66   6  Zdenka Gašparač   2:33.57   7  Christine Fulcher   2:33.73   8  Pat Chan   2:41.27  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Leslie Cliff   2:25.08   2  Karin Bormann   2:25.59   3  Lynn Skrifvars   2:26.40   4  Debra Cain   2:27.14   5  Josien Elzerman   2:28.18   6  Kazu Fujimura   2:30.37   7  Felicia Ospitaletche   2:37.88  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Enith Brigitha   2:23.70   2  Donna-Marie Gurr   2:25.33   3  Sylvie Le Noach   2:27.18   4  Tina Lek'veishvili   2:28.22   5  Susanne Niesner   2:28.62   6  Pamela Bairstow   2:29.28   7  María Cecilia Vargas   2:37.54   8  Ong Mei Lin   2:46.40  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Melissa Belote   2:20.58   2  Christine Herbst   2:25.09   3  Sue Lewis   2:25.34   4  Andrea Gyarmati   2:25.81   5  Nataliya Yershova   2:29.46   6  Angelika Kraus   2:31.16   7  Patricia López   2:33.41   8  Diana Sutherland   2:37.61  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Melissa Belote   2:19.19  '''WR'''  2 Susie Atwood   2:20.38  '''  '''  3  Donna Gurr   2:23.22  ''' ''' 4  Annegret Kober   2:23.35  ''' ''' 5   Christine Herbst   2:23.44  ''' ''' 6   Enith Brigitha   2:23.70  ''' ''' 7  Deborah Palmer   2:24.65  ''' ''' 8  Leslie Cliff   2:25.80  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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