Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Women's 200 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	30 July 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	38 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:59.23
Medalists
	← 1980 1988 →

The final of the women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on July 30, 1984.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Kristin Otto (GDR)	1:57.75	Magdeburg, East Germany	23 May 1984
Olympic record	Barbara Krause (GDR)	1:58.33	Moscow, Soviet Union	24 July 1980

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mary Wayte	United States	2:00.69	Q
2	4	4	Cynthia Woodhead	United States	2:00.85	Q
3	5	4	June Croft	Great Britain	2:01.05	Q
4	3	5	Michelle Pearson	Australia	2:01.49	Q
5	2	4	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:01.52	Q
6	1	4	Annemarie Verstappen	Netherlands	2:01.61	Q
7	5	5	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:02.42	Q
8	3	3	Anna McVann	Australia	2:03.14	Q
9	5	3	Julie Daigneault	Canada	2:03.40	q
10	4	6	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	2:03.94	q
11	3	6	Iris Zscherpe	West Germany	2:03.95	q
12	2	3	Silvia Persi	Italy	2:03.98	q
13	4	3	Jane Kerr	Canada	2:04.02	q
14	4	5	Kaori Yanase	Japan	2:04.38	q
15	2	5	Annabelle Cripps	Great Britain	2:04.44	q
16	1	5	Ann Linder	Sweden	2:04.60	q
17	2	6	Carla Lasi	Italy	2:05.86
18	2	7	Lisa Ann Wen	Chinese Taipei	2:06.01
19	1	3	Laurence Bensimon	France	2:06.61
20	2	2	Carol Ann Heavey	Ireland	2:07.75
21	5	2	Patricia Kohlmann	Mexico	2:08.15
22	5	7	Sandra Crousse	Peru	2:09.42
23	1	6	Sofia Dara	Greece	2:09.52
24	4	2	Irma Huerta	Mexico	2:09.79
25	4	1	Christine Jacob	Philippines	2:12.17
26	3	7	Hadar Rubinstein	Israel	2:12.32
27	3	2	Virginia Sachero	Argentina	2:13.41
28	5	1	Chang Hui-chien	Chinese Taipei	2:13.67
29	1	7	Kim Jin-suk	South Korea	2:13.76
30	1	2	Fenella Ng	Hong Kong	2:13.94
31	2	1	Karen Slowing-Aceituno	Guatemala	2:14.39
32	4	8	Blanca Morales	Guatemala	2:14.79
33	3	1	Sherwite Hafez	Egypt	2:16.11
34	1	1	Daniela Galassi	San Marino	2:19.22
35	5	8	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	2:19.61
36	3	8	María Lardizábal	Honduras	2:28.65
	4	7	Faten Ghattas	Tunisia	DNS
	5	6	Maria Kardum	Sweden	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	6	Silvia Persi	Italy	2:03.17	NR
10	3	Iris Zscherpe	West Germany	2:03.42
11	4	Julie Daigneault	Canada	2:03.67
12	8	Ann Linder	Sweden	2:03.85
13	5	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	2:04.11
14	2	Jane Kerr	Canada	2:04.19
15	1	Annabelle Cripps	Great Britain	2:04.90
16	7	Kaori Yanase	Japan	2:05.24

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mary Wayte	United States	1:59.23
	5	Cynthia Woodhead	United States	1:59.50
	7	Annemarie Verstappen	Netherlands	1:59.69
4	6	Michelle Pearson	Australia	1:59.79	OC
5	2	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:00.59
6	3	June Croft	Great Britain	2:00.64
7	1	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:01.89
8	8	Anna McVann	Australia	2:02.87