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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	25 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:29.54 (OR)
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Swimming at the 1980 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 breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics, took place on July 23, at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow, Soviet Union. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the thirteenth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 25 competitors from 18 nations participated in the event.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:28.36 s	Potsdam, East Germany	6 April 1979	^[2]
Olympic record	Marina Kosheveya (URS)	2:33.35 s	Montreal, Canada	21 July 1976	^[3]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
23 July	Heat 3	Svetlana Varganova	Soviet Union	2:29.77	OR
23 July	Final	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	2:29.54	OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Svetlana Varganova	Soviet Union	2:29.77	Q, OR^[1]
2	3	Irena Fleissnerová	Czechoslovakia	2:32.79	Q, NR^[4]
3	4	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	2:33.04	Q
4	2	Yuliya Bogdanova	Soviet Union	2:33.45	Q
5	4	Susanne Nielsson	Denmark	2:34.42	Q
6	2	Silvia Rinka	East Germany	2:34.88	Q
7	1	Bettina Löbel	East Germany	2:35.31	Q
8	1	Ute Geweniger	East Germany	2:35.42	Q
9	3	Eva-Marie Håkansson	Sweden	2:35.64	NR^[4]
10	4	Ann-Sofi Roos	Sweden	2:35.99
11	2	Debbie Rudd	Great Britain	2:36.32
12	1	Margaret Kelly	Great Britain	2:37.67
13	4	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	2:39.11
14	4	Lisa Curry	Australia	2:39.42
15	4	Brigitte Prass	Romania	2:39.90	NR^[4]
16	3	Odile Bihan	France	2:40.55
17	4	Sabrina Seminatore	Italy	2:41.77
18	2	Elke Holtz	Mexico	2:42.59	NR^[4]
19	1	Brigitte Bosmans	Belgium	2:42.87
20	3	Catherine Bohan	Ireland	2:43.30
21	1	Annick de Susini	France	2:44.03
22	2	Gabriella Kindl	Hungary	2:44.08
23	3	Lynne Tasker	Zimbabwe	2:48.86	NR^[4]
24	2	Hoàng Thị Hoà	Vietnam	2:55.94
25	1	Nicole Rajoharison	Madagascar	3:12.40

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	2:29.54	OR^[1]
	Svetlana Varganova	Soviet Union	2:29.61
	Yuliya Bogdanova	Soviet Union	2:32.39
4	Susanne Nielsson	Denmark	2:32.75	NR^[4]
5	Irena Fleissnerová	Czechoslovakia	2:33.23
6	Ute Geweniger	East Germany	2:34.34
7	Bettina Löbel	East Germany	2:34.51
8	Silvia Rinka	East Germany	2:35.38