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

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

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

References

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