Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics, took place on August 26–27, at the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the eighth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 30 competitors from 19 nations participated in the event.[1] British gold-medalist Anita Lonsbrough became the first swimmer to break the world record in this event, with a time of 2:49.5 in the final.

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueStadio Olimpico del Nuoto
Date26 August (heats)
27 August (final)
Competitors30 from 19 nations
Winning time2:49.5 (WR)
Medalists
Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain
Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany
Barbara Göbel  United Team of Germany

Records

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

World record Wiltrud Urselmann (FRG)2:50.2 sAachen, West Germany6 June 1960[2]
Olympic record Ursula Happe (EUA)2:53.1 sMelbourne, Australia30 November 1956[2]

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeORWR
August 26Heat 2Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain2:53.3OR
August 26Heat 3Wiltrud Urselmann United Team of Germany2:52.0OR
August 27FinalAnita Lonsbrough Great Britain2:49.5ORWR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
134 Wiltrud Urselmann United Team of Germany 2:52.0Q, OR[3]
224 Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain 2:53.3Q, OR[4]
345 Ada den Haan Netherlands 2:54.0Q
414 Barbara Göbel United Team of Germany 2:54.2Q
535 Gretta Kok Netherlands 2:55.2Q
632 Patty Kempner United States 2:55.5Q
736 Dorrit Kristensen Denmark 2:56.2Q
844 Anne Warner United States 2:56.3Q
933 Christine Gosden Great Britain 2:56.9
1047 Elena Zennaro Italy 2:57.0
1113 Rosemary Lassig Australia 2:57.4
1215 Yoshiko Takamatsu Japan 2:57.6
1325 Klára Killermann Hungary 2:58.7
1423 Barbro Eriksson Sweden 2:59.8
1546 Inge Andersen Denmark 2:57.6
1642 Janet Hogan Australia 3:00.3
1726 Amélie Mirkowitch France 3:01.5
1843 Marta Kadlecová Czechoslovakia 3:01.7
1912 Michèle Pialat France 3:02.2
2022 Christl Filippovits Austria 3:02.6
2127 Lyudmila Korobova Soviet Union 3:02.7
2216 Eve Maurer Soviet Union 3:03.1
2311 Meg Miners Rhodesia 3:05.2
2437 Judith McHale Canada 3:07.7
2517 Christl Wöber Austria 3:09.3
2621 Luciana Marcellini Italy 3:09.8
2718 Maya Hungerbühler Switzerland 3:10.1
2838 Isabel Castañe Spain 3:10.4
2941 Regina Veloso Portugal 3:13.3
3031 Suzette Schmidlin Switzerland DNS[3]

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5 Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain 2:49.5WR[3]
4 Wiltrud Urselmann United Team of Germany 2:50.0
6 Barbara Göbel United Team of Germany 2:53.6
43 Ada den Haan Netherlands 2:54.4
52 Gretta Kok Netherlands 2:54.6
68 Anne Warner United States 2:55.4
77 Patty Kempner United States 2:55.5
81 Dorrit Kristensen Denmark 2:55.7

Sources

  • "The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960" (PDF). Volume Two, Part 2. Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome. 1960. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  • "LCM Women Records" (PDF). USA Swimming. 9 May 2012. p. 15. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  • "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. USA Swimming, p. 17.
  3. OCGOR, p. 590
  4. "Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke Round One". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
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