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

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	24 July
Competitors	22 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:58.33 OR
Medalists
Barbara Krause  East Germany Ines Diers  East Germany Carmela Schmidt  East Germany
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Cynthia Woodhead (USA)	1:58.23	Tokyo, Japan	3 September 1979
Olympic record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	1:59.26	Montreal, Canada	22 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Final	Barbara Krause	East Germany	1:58.33	OR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Ines Diers	East Germany	2:00.27	Q
2	4	Barbara Krause	East Germany	2:01.18	Q
3	3	Carmela Schmidt	East Germany	2:02.32	Q
4	4	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	2:02.36	Q
5	1	Reggie de Jong	Netherlands	2:02.66	Q
6	1	Nataliya Strunnikova	Soviet Union	2:03.36	Q
7	1	Irina Aksyonova	Soviet Union	2:03.63	Q
8	3	June Croft	Great Britain	2:03.95	Q
9	2	Annelies Maas	Netherlands	2:04.07
10	3	Rosemary Brown	Australia	2:04.59
11	4	Guylaine Berger	France	2:04.60
12	4	Pascale Verbauwen	Belgium	2:05.34
13	3	Sonya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	2:05.67
14	1	Natalia Más	Spain	2:05.73
15	4	Tina Gustafsson	Sweden	2:05.84
16	2	Karen Van der Graaf	Australia	2:06.06
17	1	Sofia Dara	Greece	2:07.56
18	3	Jacquelene Willmott	Great Britain	2:08.04
19	2	Dobrinka Mincheva	Bulgaria	2:09.09
20	3	Irinel Pănulescu	Romania	2:09.94
21	4	Celeste García	Peru	2:13.05
22	3	Soad Fezzani	Libya	2:30.14
	1	Isabel Reuss	Mexico	DNS
	2	Agneta Eriksson	Sweden
	2	María París	Costa Rica
	4	Michelle Ford	Australia

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Barbara Krause	East Germany	1:58.33	OR
	Ines Diers	East Germany	1:59.64
	Carmela Schmidt	East Germany	2:01.44
4	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	2:02.29
5	Reggie de Jong	Netherlands	2:02.76
6	June Croft	Great Britain	2:03.15
7	Natalya Strunnikova	Soviet Union	2:03.74
8	Irina Aksyonova	Soviet Union	2:04.00