Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
Kornelia Ender   East Germany   Shirley Babashoff   United States   Enith Brigitha   Netherlands

Swimming events at the 1976 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 Women's 200 metre Freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 22 July.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Claudia Hempel	East Germany	2:03.36	Q, OR
2	Larisa Tsaryova	Soviet Union	2:03.98
3	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:08.02
4	Sonya Gray	Australia	2:10.73
5	Ratchaneewan Bulakul	Thailand	2:12.92
6	Vilborg Sverrisdóttir	Iceland	2:14.27

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gail Amundrud	Canada	2:03.85	Q
2	Debbie Clarke	Canada	2:05.10
3	Lyubov Kobzova	Soviet Union	2:05.55
4	Gunilla Lundberg	Sweden	2:09.51
5	Jane Fayer	Puerto Rico	2:19.93
6	Raphaelynne Lee	Hong Kong	2:20.76

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Irina Vlasova	Soviet Union	2:03.67	Q
2	Rebecca Perrott	New Zealand	2:03.94
3	Andrea Pollack	East Germany	2:06.12
4	Marion Platten	West Germany	2:06.70
5	Regina Nissen	West Germany	2:14.66
6	Deirdre Sheehan	Ireland	2:15.69
7	Susana Coppo	Argentina	2:19.26

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	2:01.54	Q, OR
2	Jennifer Hooker	United States	2:03.72	Q
3	Anne Richard	Belgium	2:07.90
4	Lesleigh Harvey	Australia	2:08.60
5	Pia Mårtensson	Sweden	2:09.85
6	Ann Bradshaw	Great Britain	2:10.93
7	Georgina Osorio	Panama	2:19.06

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:01.64	Q
2	Annelies Maas	Netherlands	2:03.01	Q
3	Anne Jardin	Canada	2:05.28
4	Guylaine Berger	France	2:06.74
5	Susan Edmondson	Great Britain	2:10.08
6	Vania Vázquez	Venezuela	2:13.54
7	Shelley Cramer	Virgin Islands	2:14.94

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:02.50	Q
2	Jill Sterkel	United States	2:03.94
3	Ineke Ran	Netherlands	2:05.01
4	Michelle Ford	Australia	2:05.72
5	Susan Barnard	Great Britain	2:08.76
6	María París	Costa Rica	2:13.17
7	María Pérez	Venezuela	2:13.97

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	1:59.26	WR
	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:01.22
	Enith Brigitha	Netherlands	2:01.40
4	Annelies Maas	Netherlands	2:02.56
5	Gail Amundrud	Canada	2:03.32
6	Jennifer Hooker	United States	2:04.20
7	Claudia Hempel	East Germany	2:04.61
8	Irina Vlasova	Soviet Union	2:05.63

References

• Official Olympic Report