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

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 final of the Women's 200 metres Backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Sunday 27 July 1980.^[1]

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:11.77 WR
	Cornelia Polit (GDR)	2:13.75
	Birgit Treiber (GDR)	2:14.14
4.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	2:15.20
5.	Yolande van der Straeten (BEL)	2:15.58
6.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	2:16.66
7.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	2:16.75
8.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	2:17.72

Qualifying heats

• Held on Sunday 1980-07-27

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	2:15.40
2.	Yolande Van der Straeten (BEL)	2:16.62
3.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	2:16.68
4.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	2:16.96
5.	Jane Admans (GBR)	2:19.20
6.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	2:22.46
7.	Michèle Ricaud (FRA)	2:22.86
8.	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích (VIE)	2:52.90

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:13.00 OR
2.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	2:15.88
3.	Georgina Parkes (AUS)	2:17.78
4.	Helen Jameson (GBR)	2:17.84
5.	Monique Bosga (NED)	2:19.21

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Cornelia Polit (GDR)	2:14.81
2.	Birgit Treiber (GDR)	2:15.53
3.	Jolanda de Rover (NED)	2:17.12
4.	Teresa Rivera (MEX)	2:21.51
5.	Yelena Kruglova (URS)	2:22.41
6.	Agnieszka Czopek (POL)	2:23.06
7.	Ágnes Fodor (HUN)	2:23.56
8.	Magdalena Białas (POL)	2:26.85

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