Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

Swimming at the
1968 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
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place October 24.[1] 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

GoldAda Kok
 Netherlands
SilverHelga Lindner
 East Germany
BronzeEllie Daniel
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Diane Giebel  United States 2:33.0
2 Yasuko Fujii  Japan 2:33.4
3 Margaret Auton  Great Britain 2:33.6
4 Sandra Whittleston  New Zealand 2:39.7
5 Carmen Gómez  Colombia 2:44.7

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ellie Daniel  United States 2:29.4
2 Vivienne Smith  Ireland 2:39.7
3 Jeanne Warren  Canada 2:40.7
4 Lyn McClements  Australia 2:40.7
5 Lotten Andersson  Sweden 2:42.1
6 Lidia Ramírez  Mexico 2:42.1

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Toni Hewitt  United States 2:29.1
2 Heike Hustede-Nagel  West Germany 2:32.1
3 Christine Strübing  East Germany 2:39.0
4 Nam Sang-nam  South Korea 2:58.6

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ada Kok  Netherlands 2:26.3
2 Helga Lindner  East Germany 2:29.4
3 Tetiana Dev'iatova  Soviet Union 2:34.7
4 Marilyn Corson  Canada 2:41.8
5 Pauline Gray  Australia 2:43.6
6 Kristina Moir  Puerto Rico 2:51.1

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Ada Kok  Netherlands 2:24.7 OR
Helga Lindner  East Germany 2:24.8
Ellie Daniel  United States 2:25.9
4 Toni Hewitt  United States 2:26.2
5 Heike Hustede-Nagel  West Germany 2:27.9
6 Diane Giebel  United States 2:31.7
7 Margaret Auton  Great Britain 2:33.2
8 Yasuko Fujii  Japan 2:34.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
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