Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1968 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
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 25 October.^[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. This was the first appearance for this event in the Olympics for the women swimmers.

Medalists

Gold	Lillian Watson  United States
Silver	Elaine Tanner  Canada
Bronze	Kaye Hall  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kaye Hall	United States	2:31.1
2	Coby Sikkens	Netherlands	2:36.9
3	Jeanne Warren	Canada	2:37.9
4	Anne Walton	Canada	2:39.4
5	Jacqueline Brown	Great Britain	2:40.0
6	Tina Lek'veishvili	Soviet Union	2:40.5
7	Francine Dauven	Belgium	2:43.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	María Corominas	Spain	2:34.5
2	Tatyana Savelyeva	Soviet Union	2:35.5
3	Ulla Patrikka	Finland	2:38.1
4	Kiki Caron	France	2:40.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Lynne Watson	Australia	2:33.5
2	Susie Atwood	United States	2:35.2
3	Bep Weeteling	Netherlands	2:35.4
4	Anca Andreiu	Romania	2:38.8
5	María Procopio	Argentina	2:49.2

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Elaine Tanner	Canada	2:30.9
2	Wendy Burrell	Great Britain	2:33.2
3	Doris Kohardt	East Germany	2:34.7
4	Angelika Kraus	West Germany	2:36.7
5	Glenda Stirling	New Zealand	2:40.3
6	Carmen Ferracuti	El Salvador	2:52.6

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Pokey Watson	United States	2:29.2
2	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	2:33.7
3	Bénédicte Duprez	France	2:34.5
4	Sylvie Canet	France	2:36.1
5	Yvette Hafner	Austria	2:37.7
6	Patricia Sentous	Argentina	2:41.5
7	Felicia Ospitaletche	Uruguay	2:51.4
8	Rosa Hasbún	El Salvador	2:56.2

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lillian Watson	United States	2:24.8	OR
	Elaine Tanner	Canada	2:27.4
	Kaye Hall	United States	2:28.9
4	Lynne Watson	Australia	2:29.5
5	Wendy Burrell	Great Britain	2:32.3
6	Zdenka Gašparač	Yugoslavia	2:33.5
7	María Corominas	Spain	2:33.9
8	Bénédicte Duprez	France	2:36.6

Key: OR = Olympic record

References