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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

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Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueSwimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date24 July
Competitors22 from 14 nations
Winning time1:58.33 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Barbara Krause  East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ines Diers  East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carmela Schmidt  East Germany
← 1976
1984 →

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Cynthia Woodhead (USA) 1:58.23 Tokyo, Japan 3 September 1979
Olympic record  Kornelia Ender (GDR) 1:59.26 Montreal, Canada 22 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
24 July Final Barbara Krause  East Germany 1:58.33 OR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Ines Diers  East Germany 2:00.27 Q
2 4 Barbara Krause  East Germany 2:01.18 Q
3 3 Carmela Schmidt  East Germany 2:02.32 Q
4 4 Olga Klevakina  Soviet Union 2:02.36 Q
5 1 Reggie de Jong  Netherlands 2:02.66 Q
6 1 Nataliya Strunnikova  Soviet Union 2:03.36 Q
7 1 Irina Aksyonova  Soviet Union 2:03.63 Q
8 3 June Croft  Great Britain 2:03.95 Q
9 2 Annelies Maas  Netherlands 2:04.07
10 3 Rosemary Brown  Australia 2:04.59
11 4 Guylaine Berger  France 2:04.60
12 4 Pascale Verbauwen  Belgium 2:05.34
13 3 Sonya Dangalakova  Bulgaria 2:05.67
14 1 Natalia Más  Spain 2:05.73
15 4 Tina Gustafsson  Sweden 2:05.84
16 2 Karen Van der Graaf  Australia 2:06.06
17 1 Sofia Dara  Greece 2:07.56
18 3 Jacquelene Willmott  Great Britain 2:08.04
19 2 Dobrinka Mincheva  Bulgaria 2:09.09
20 3 Irinel Pănulescu  Romania 2:09.94
21 4 Celeste García  Peru 2:13.05
22 3 Soad Fezzani  Libya 2:30.14
1 Isabel Reuss  Mexico DNS
2 Agneta Eriksson  Sweden
2 María París  Costa Rica
4 Michelle Ford  Australia

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Barbara Krause  East Germany 1:58.33 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ines Diers  East Germany 1:59.64
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carmela Schmidt  East Germany 2:01.44
4 Olga Klevakina  Soviet Union 2:02.29
5 Reggie de Jong  Netherlands 2:02.76
6 June Croft  Great Britain 2:03.15
7 Natalya Strunnikova  Soviet Union 2:03.74
8 Irina Aksyonova  Soviet Union 2:04.00

References

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  1. ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 474. Retrieved 28 December 2018.