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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Barbara Krause  East Germany Ines Diers  East Germany Carmela Schmidt  East Germany

The final of the Women's 200 metres Freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Thursday 24 July 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Barbara Krause (GDR)	1:58.33
	Ines Diers (GDR)	1:59.64
	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	2:01.44
4.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	2:02.29
5.	Reggie de Jong (NED)	2:02.76
6.	June Croft (GBR)	2:03.15
7.	Natalya Strunnikova (URS)	2:03.74
8.	Irina Aksenova (URS)	2:04.00

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats were held on Sunday 20t July 1980, at the Olympic Swimming Pool in Moscow, Soviet Union. The fastest 8 swimmers qualified for the final.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Reggie de Jong (NED)	2:02.66
2.	Nataliya Strunnikova (URS)	2:03.36
3.	Irina Aksyonova (URS)	2:03.63
4.	Natalia Más (ESP)	2:05.73
5.	Sofia Dara (GRE)	2:07.56

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ines Diers (GDR)	2:00.27
2.	Annelies Maas (NED)	2:04.07
3.	Karen Van der Graaf (AUS)	2:06.06
4.	Dobrinka Mincheva (BUL)	2:09.09

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	2:02.32
2.	June Croft (GBR)	2:03.95
3.	Rosemary Brown (AUS)	2:04.59
4.	Sonya Dangalakova (BUL)	2:05.67
5.	Jacquelene Willmott (GBR)	2:08.04
6.	Irinel Pănulescu (ROU)	2:09.94
7.	Soad Fezzani (LBA)	2:30.14

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Barbara Krause (GDR)	2:01.18
2.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	2:02.36
3.	Guylaine Berger (FRA)	2:04.60
4.	Pascale Verbauwen (BEL)	2:05.34
5.	Tina Gustafsson (SWE)	2:05.84
6.	Celeste García (PER)	2:13.05