Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games

1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

took place September 4. This swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

event used backstroke

Backstroke

The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...

. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Melissa Belote Melissa Belote Melissa Louise Belote is an Olympic and former World Record holding backstroke swimmer from the United States. She swam for her native country at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics....		2:19.19	WR
	Susan Atwood Susan Atwood Susan Atwood is an American former swimmer, who won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany. Before those Olympics, she held the world record in the 200 metre backstroke, though her record was broken by gold medalist Melissa Belote in Munich.Atwood was inducted into the...		2:20.38
	Donna Gurr Donna Gurr Donna-Marie Gurr, CM is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. There she won the bronze medal in the 200m Backstroke. In 1976, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest achievement award, in a...		2:23.22
4	Annegret Kober		2:23.35
5	Christine Herbst		2:23.44
6	Enith Brigitha Enith Brigitha Enith Sijtje Maria Brigitha was one of Holland's leading swimmers in the 1970s, who represented the Netherlands twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 . She won two bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, in the women's 100 m and 200 m freestyle...		2:23.70
7	Deborah Palmer		2:24.65
8	Leslie Cliff		2:25.80

Key: WR = World record

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