Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre butterfly''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October. 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. This was the first time for this event for the women swimmers.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Diane Giebel    2:33.0   2  Yasuko Fujii    2:33.4   3  Margaret Auton    2:33.6   4  Sandra Whittleston    2:39.7   5  Carmen Gómez    2:44.7  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ellie Daniel    2:29.4   2  Vivienne Smith    2:39.7   3  Jeanne Warren    2:40.7   4  Lyn McClements    2:40.7   5  Lotten Andersson    2:42.1   6  Lidia Ramírez    2:42.1  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Toni Hewitt    2:29.1   2  Heike Hustede-Nagel    2:32.1   3  Christine Strübing    2:39.0   4  Nam Sang-nam    2:58.6  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ada Kok    2:26.3   2  Helga Lindner    2:29.4   3  Tetiana Dev'iatova    2:34.7   4  Marilyn Corson    2:41.8   5  Pauline Gray    2:43.6   6  Kristina Moir    2:51.1  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Ada Kok   2:24.7  '''OR'''  2 Helga Lindner   2:24.8  '''  '''  3  Ellie Daniel   2:25.9  ''' ''' 4  Toni Hewitt   2:26.2  ''' ''' 5   Heike Hustede-Nagel   2:27.9  ''' ''' 6   Diane Giebel   2:31.7  ''' ''' 7  Margaret Auton   2:33.2  ''' ''' 8  Yasuko Fujii   2:34.3  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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