The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Annegret Kober 2:24.88 2 Wendy Cook-Hogg 2:25.71 3 Suzuko Matsumura 2:26.95 4 María Teresa Ramírez 2:27.47 5 Annemarie Groen 2:29.17 6 Diana Ashton 2:29.95
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Susie Atwood 2:22.13 2 Deborah Palmer 2:24.25 3 Susanne Hilger 2:27.88 4 Susan Hunter 2:28.28 5 Kikuyo Ishii 2:29.66 6 Zdenka Gašparač 2:33.57 7 Christine Fulcher 2:33.73 8 Pat Chan 2:41.27
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Leslie Cliff 2:25.08 2 Karin Bormann 2:25.59 3 Lynn Skrifvars 2:26.40 4 Debra Cain 2:27.14 5 Josien Elzerman 2:28.18 6 Kazu Fujimura 2:30.37 7 Felicia Ospitaletche 2:37.88
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Enith Brigitha 2:23.70 2 Donna-Marie Gurr 2:25.33 3 Sylvie Le Noach 2:27.18 4 Tina Lek'veishvili 2:28.22 5 Susanne Niesner 2:28.62 6 Pamela Bairstow 2:29.28 7 María Cecilia Vargas 2:37.54 8 Ong Mei Lin 2:46.40
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Melissa Belote 2:20.58 2 Christine Herbst 2:25.09 3 Sue Lewis 2:25.34 4 Andrea Gyarmati 2:25.81 5 Nataliya Yershova 2:29.46 6 Angelika Kraus 2:31.16 7 Patricia López 2:33.41 8 Diana Sutherland 2:37.61
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Melissa Belote 2:19.19 WR Susie Atwood 2:20.38 Donna Gurr 2:23.22 4 Annegret Kober 2:23.35 5 Christine Herbst 2:23.44 6 Enith Brigitha 2:23.70 7 Deborah Palmer 2:24.65 8 Leslie Cliff 2:25.80
Key: WR = World record
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