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Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

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Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueStadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Date26 August (heats)
27 August (final)
Competitors30 from 19 nations
Winning time2:49.5 (WR)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Barbara Göbel  United Team of Germany
← 1956
1964 →

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics, took place on August 26–27, at the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the eighth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 30 competitors from 19 nations participated in the event.[1] British gold-medalist Anita Lonsbrough became the first swimmer to break the world record in this event, with a time of 2:49.5 in the final.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record  Wiltrud Urselmann (FRG) 2:50.2 s Aachen, West Germany 6 June 1960 [2]
Olympic record  Ursula Happe (EUA) 2:53.1 s Melbourne, Australia 30 November 1956 [2]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time OR WR
August 26 Heat 2 Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 2:53.3 OR
August 26 Heat 3 Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany 2:52.0 OR
August 27 Final Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 2:49.5 OR WR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 4 Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany 2:52.0 Q, OR[3]
2 2 4 Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 2:53.3 Q, OR[4]
3 4 5 Ada den Haan  Netherlands 2:54.0 Q
4 1 4 Barbara Göbel  United Team of Germany 2:54.2 Q
5 3 5 Gretta Kok  Netherlands 2:55.2 Q
6 3 2 Patty Kempner  United States 2:55.5 Q
7 3 6 Dorrit Kristensen  Denmark 2:56.2 Q
8 4 4 Anne Warner  United States 2:56.3 Q
9 3 3 Christine Gosden  Great Britain 2:56.9
10 4 7 Elena Zennaro  Italy 2:57.0
11 1 3 Rosemary Lassig  Australia 2:57.4
12 1 5 Yoshiko Takamatsu  Japan 2:57.6
13 2 5 Klára Killermann  Hungary 2:58.7
14 2 3 Barbro Eriksson  Sweden 2:59.8
15 4 6 Inge Andersen  Denmark 2:59.9
16 4 2 Janet Hogan  Australia 3:00.3
17 2 6 Amélie Mirkowitch  France 3:01.5
18 4 3 Marta Kadlecová  Czechoslovakia 3:01.7
19 1 2 Michèle Pialat  France 3:02.2
20 2 2 Christl Filippovits  Austria 3:02.6
21 2 7 Lyudmila Korobova  Soviet Union 3:02.7
22 1 6 Eve Maurer  Soviet Union 3:03.1
23 1 1 Meg Miners  Rhodesia 3:05.2
24 3 7 Judith McHale  Canada 3:07.7
25 1 7 Christl Wöber  Austria 3:09.3
26 2 1 Luciana Marcellini  Italy 3:09.8
27 1 8 Maya Hungerbühler  Switzerland 3:10.1
28 3 8 Isabel Castañe  Spain 3:10.4
29 4 1 Regina Veloso  Portugal 3:13.3
30 3 1 Suzette Schmidlin  Switzerland DNS[3]

Final

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 2:49.5 WR[3]
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany 2:50.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 Barbara Göbel  United Team of Germany 2:53.6
4 3 Ada den Haan  Netherlands 2:54.4
5 2 Gretta Kok  Netherlands 2:54.6
6 8 Anne Warner  United States 2:55.4
7 7 Patty Kempner  United States 2:55.5
8 1 Dorrit Kristensen  Denmark 2:55.7

Sources

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  • "The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960" (PDF). Volume Two, Part 2. Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome. 1960. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  • "LCM Women Records" (PDF). USA Swimming. 9 May 2012. p. 15. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  • "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b USA Swimming, p. 17.
  3. ^ a b c OCGOR, p. 590
  4. ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke Round One". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.