The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4. 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.
Schedule
All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Date Time Round Saturday, 4 September 1972 10:0018:00 HeatsFinal
Results
Heats
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Rosemarie Kother 2:18.32 Q, OR 2 Mayumi Aoki 2:23.01 Q 3 Anca Groza 2:30.32 4 Grisel Mendoza 2:35.85
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Ellie Daniel 2:17.18 Q, OR 2 Jean Jeavons 2:27.59 3 Eva Wikner 2:29.03 4 Margrit Thomet 2:29.21 5 Věra Faitlová 2:29.34 6 Moira Brown 2:30.08 7 Jennifer McHugh 2:30.36
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Lynn Colella 2:18.80 Q 2 Noriko Asano 2:20.09 Q 3 Gail Neall 2:23.21 Q 4 Frieke Buys 2:24.20 5 Olga de Angulo 2:34.69 6 Hsu Yue-yun 2:44.88
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Karen Moe 2:18.15 Q 2 Helga Lindner 2:20.00 Q 3 Brigitte Mertz 2:24.92 4 Sue Funch 2:26.69 5 Eva Sigg 2:27.64 6 Ileana Morales 2:28.41 7 Maria Isabel Guerra 2:32.60
"Q": Qualified
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Karen Moe 2:15.57 WR Lynn Colella 2:16.34 Ellie Daniel 2:16.74 4 Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel 2:17.11 5 Noriko Asano 2:19.50 6 Helga Lindner 2:20.47 7 Gail Neall 2:21.88 8 Mayumi Aoki 2:22.84
Key: WR = World record
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