Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre freestyle''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 1.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 four lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Ann Marshall   2:08.12  '''OR, Q'''  2  Karin Tülling   2:09.01 ''' Q '''  3   Jutta Weber   2:12.44  ''' ''' 4  Merrily Stratten   2:12.44 ''' ''' 5   Heather Coombridge   2:14.78  ''' ''' 6   Karen LeGresley   2:16.34  ''' ''' 7  Belinda Phillips   2:19.49  ''' ''''''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Anke Rijnders   2:09.09  '''Q'''  2  Helen Gray   2:12.76  '''  '''  3   Nadezhda Matyukhina   2:13.60  ''' ''' 4  Françoise Monod   2:15.30  ''' ''' 5   Olga de Angulo   2:17.34  ''' ''' 6   Silvia Borgini   2:23.11  ''' ''''''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Keena Rothhammer   2:07.48  '''OR, Q'''  2  Hansje Bunschoten   2:08.58  ''' Q '''  3   Tatyana Zolotnitskaya   2:13.12  ''' ''' 4  Yelena Timoshenko   2:14.06  ''' ''' 5   Diana Sutherland   2:16.00  ''' ''' 6   Ileana Morales   2:18.84  ''' ''''''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Shane Gould   2:07.95  '''Q'''  2  Deborah Palmer   2:10.29  '''  '''  3   Uta Schütz   2:12.84  ''' ''' 4  Mary Beth Rondeau   2:13.52  ''' ''' 5   Susan Edmondson   2:13.54  ''' ''' 6   Lucy Burle   2:18.57  ''' ''' 7  Marcia Arriaga   2:18.93  ''' ''''''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1   Andrea Eife   2:07.95  '''OR, Q'''  2  Shirley Babashoff   2:08.48  ''' Q '''  3   Gudrun Wegner   2:09.49  ''' ''' 4  Angela Steinbach   2:10.59  ''' ''' 5   Lesley Allardice   2:13.43  ''' ''' 6   Roselina Angel   2:18.62  ''' ''' 7  Hsu Yue-yun   2:20.17  ''' '''===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Shane Gould   2:03.56  '''WR'''  2 Shirley Babashoff   2:04.33  '''  '''  3  Keena Rothhammer   2:04.92  ''' ''' 4  Ann Marshall   2:05.45  ''' ''' 5   Andrea Eife   2:06.27  ''' ''' 6   Hansje Bunschoten   2:08.40  ''' ''' 7  Anke Rijnders   2:09.41  ''' ''' 8  Karin Tülling   2:11.70  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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