Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre individual medley''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 28.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
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Nina Petrova   2:27.20   2  Anita Zarnowiecki   2:29.08   3  Gail Neall   2:29.64   4  Karen James   2:31.25   5  Debra Cain   2:31.82   6  Eleni Avlonitou   2:39.10   7  Patricia López   2:42.08  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Evelyn Stolze   2:25.45   2  Leslie Cliff   2:25.59   3  Jaroslava Slavíčková   2:27.33   4  Hennie Penterman   2:28.99   5  Éva Kiss   2:32.68   6  Hsu Yue-yun   2:35.93   7  María Ballesteros   2:37.00  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Jenny Bartz   2:25.83   2  Brigitte Schuchardt   2:30.04   3  Martha Nelson   2:30.51   4  Shelagh Ratcliffe   2:31.04   5  Gerda Lassooij   2:32.92   6  Eva Sigg   2:33.61   7  Gisela Cerezo   2:35.34   8  Laura Vaca   2:34.35  DQ'''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Kornelia Ender   2:25.39   2  Carolyn Woods   2:26.98   3  Susan Hunter   2:30.29   4  Wijda Mazereeuw   2:32.59   5  Avis Willington   2:32.64   6  Maria Isabel Guerra   2:32.95   7  Kirsten Strange-Campbell   2:33.15  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Lynn Vidali   2:24.92   2  Yoshimi Nishigawa   2:26.61   3  Birutė Užkuraitytė   2:31.11   4  Susan Richardson   2:31.24   5  Judit Turóczy   2:32.63   6  Trine Krogh   2:36.27   7  Felicia Ospitaletche   2:37.69  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Shane Gould   2:26.44   2  Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss   2:28.05   3  Yukari Takemoto   2:29.41   4  Susanne Niesner   2:30.87   5  Karin Bormann   2:31.19   6  Helmi Boxberger   2:33.71   7  Roselina Angee   2:45.46   8  Ong Mei Lin   2:48.13  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Shane Gould   2:23.07  '''WR'''  2 Kornelia Ender   2:23.59  '''  '''  3  Lynn Vidali   2:24.06  ''' ''' 4  Jenny Bartz   2:24.55  ''' ''' 5   Leslie Cliff   2:24.83  ''' ''' 6   Evelyn Stolze   2:25.90  ''' ''' 7  Yoshimi Nishigawa   2:26.35  ''' ''' 8  Carolyn Woods   2:27.42  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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