Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 4.^[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.

Medalists

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:18.32	Q, OR
2	Mayumi Aoki	Japan	2:23.01	Q
3	Anca Groza	Romania	2:30.32
4	Grisel Mendoza	Mexico	2:35.85

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ellie Daniel	United States	2:17.18	Q, OR
2	Jean Jeavons	Great Britain	2:27.59
3	Eva Wikner	Sweden	2:29.03
4	Margrit Thomet	Switzerland	2:29.21
5	Věra Faitlová	Czechoslovakia	2:29.34
6	Moira Brown	Great Britain	2:30.08
7	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	2:30.36

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lynn Colella	United States	2:18.80	Q
2	Noriko Asano	Japan	2:20.09	Q
3	Gail Neall	Australia	2:23.21	Q
4	Frieke Buys	Netherlands	2:24.20
5	Olga de Angulo	Colombia	2:34.69
6	Hsu Yue-yun	Chinese Taipei	2:44.88

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Karen Moe	United States	2:18.15	Q
2	Helga Lindner	East Germany	2:20.00	Q
3	Brigitte Mertz	East Germany	2:24.92
4	Sue Funch	Australia	2:26.69
5	Eva Sigg	Finland	2:27.64
6	Ileana Morales	Venezuela	2:28.41
7	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	2:32.60

"Q": Qualified

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Karen Moe	United States	2:15.57	WR
	Lynn Colella	United States	2:16.34
	Ellie Daniel	United States	2:16.74
4	Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel	East Germany	2:17.11
5	Noriko Asano	Japan	2:19.50
6	Helga Lindner	East Germany	2:20.47
7	Gail Neall	Australia	2:21.88
8	Mayumi Aoki	Japan	2:22.84

Key: WR = World record

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