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200 metres Butterfly, Women

Date	21 July 1980
Status	Olympic
Location	Plavatelny basseyn, Sportivny kompleks Olimpiysky, Moskva
Participants	21 from 14 countries

Mary T. Meagher was the world’s greatest butterfly swimmer, bar none. She had set three world records in 1979, lowering the mark from Tracy Caulkins’s 2:09.87, set in 1978, to 2:07.01. The two weeks before the Moscow Olympics, Meagher took the mark down further, to 2:06.37, at a meet in Irvine, California. In August 1981 at the US Nationals, that mark fell to her as she finished in 2:05.96, a world record that would last until 1999. Despite the East German women’s hegemony in Moscow, Meagher would have won.

Without her the gold medal went to the GDR’s Ines Geißler, who would later win the event at the 1981 Europeans and 1982 World Championships. Her Moscow gold came by only 1/100th of a second over teammate Sybille Schönrock, who was never heard from again.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	Final
1	Ines Geißler	GDR	2:13.23 (1 h2)	2:10.44 (1)	Gold
2	Sybille Schönrock	GDR	2:13.68 (1 h1)	2:10.45 (2)	Silver
3	Michelle Ford	AUS	2:12.72 (1 h3)	2:11.66 (3)	Bronze
4	Andrea Pollack	GDR	2:13.88 (2 h3)	2:12.13 (4)
5	Dorota Brzozowska	POL	2:14.74 (2 h1)	2:14.12 (5)
6	Ann Osgerby	GBR	2:15.17 (3 h1)	2:14.83 (6)
7	Agneta Mårtensson	SWE	2:16.41 (2 h2)	2:15.22 (7)
8	Alla Grishchenkova	URS	2:16.01 (3 h3)	2:15.70 (8)
9	Éva Miklósfalvy	HUN	2:17.32 (4 h1)	–
10	Cinzia Savi Scarponi	ITA	2:17.53 (3 h2)	–
11	Karen Van de Graaf	AUS	2:17.82 (4 h2)	–
=12	Larisa Polivoda	URS	2:17.88 (5 h1)	–
=12	Sonja Hausladen	AUT	2:17.88 (4 h3)	–
14	Janet Osgerby	GBR	2:18.01 (5 h2)	–
15	Armi Airaksinen	SWE	2:19.39 (5 h3)	–
16	Małgorzata Różycka	POL	2:19.70 (6 h3)	–
17	María París	CRC	2:21.14 (6 h2)	–
18	Wilma van Velsen	NED	2:21.81 (7 h3)	–
19	Carole Brook	SUI	2:24.82 (6 h1)	–
20	Marion Michel	BEL	2:25.10 (7 h2)	–
21	Celeste García	PER	2:26.07 (7 h1)	–

Round One (21 July 1980 — 11:00)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	4	Sybille Schönrock	GDR	30.40 (1) 34.26 (3)	1:04.66 (2) 33.64 (1)	1:38.30 (1) 35.38 (3)	2:13.68	Q
2	5	Dorota Brzozowska	POL	31.02 (5) 34.17 (2)	1:05.19 (3) 34.57 (2)	1:39.76 (2) 34.98 (2)	2:14.74	Q
3	3	Ann Osgerby	GBR	30.92 (4) 34.49 (4)	1:05.41 (5) 34.80 (3)	1:40.21 (3) 34.96 (1)	2:15.17	Q
4	6	Éva Miklósfalvy	HUN	30.73 (3) 34.58 (5)	1:05.31 (4) 35.68 (4)	1:40.99 (5) 36.33 (4)	2:17.32
5	2	Larisa Polivoda	URS	30.64 (2) 34.00 (1)	1:04.64 (1) 35.81 (5)	1:40.45 (4) 37.43 (5)	2:17.88		1
6	7	Carole Brook	SUI	31.47 (6) 36.05 (6)	1:07.52 (6) 38.19 (7)	1:45.71 (6) 39.11 (7)	2:24.82
7	1	Celeste García	PER	33.13 (7) 36.32 (7)	1:09.45 (7) 37.75 (6)	1:47.20 (7) 38.87 (6)	2:26.07

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	4	Ines Geißler	GDR	29.98 (1) 33.57 (1)	1:03.55 (1) 34.75 (1)	1:38.30 (1) 34.93 (1)	2:13.23	Q
2	3	Agneta Mårtensson	SWE	30.74 (3) 34.20 (2)	1:04.94 (2) 35.39 (2)	1:40.33 (2) 36.08 (4)	2:16.41	Q
3	6	Cinzia Savi Scarponi	ITA	31.02 (4) 35.03 (5)	1:06.05 (5) 35.77 (3)	1:41.82 (4) 35.71 (3)	2:17.53
4	5	Karen Van de Graaf	AUS	31.16 (5) 34.73 (4)	1:05.89 (4) 36.34 (5)	1:42.23 (5) 35.59 (2)	2:17.82
5	2	Janet Osgerby	GBR	30.64 (2) 34.41 (3)	1:05.05 (3) 36.10 (4)	1:41.15 (3) 36.86 (5)	2:18.01
6	7	María París	CRC	31.60 (6) 35.50 (6)	1:07.10 (6) 36.82 (6)	1:43.92 (6) 37.22 (6)	2:21.14
7	1	Marion Michel	BEL	32.40 (7) 36.82 (7)	1:09.22 (7) 37.48 (7)	1:46.70 (7) 38.40 (7)	2:25.10

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	5	Michelle Ford	AUS	30.33 (2) 33.86 (1)	1:04.19 (2) 34.21 (1)	1:38.40 (1) 34.32 (1)	2:12.72	Q
2	4	Andrea Pollack	GDR	29.92 (1) 34.25 (=2)	1:04.17 (1) 34.40 (2)	1:38.57 (2) 35.31 (2)	2:13.88	Q
3	6	Alla Grishchenkova	URS	30.77 (4) 34.25 (=2)	1:05.02 (4) 35.07 (3)	1:40.09 (3) 35.92 (4)	2:16.01	Q
4	7	Sonja Hausladen	AUT	31.62 (6) 35.36 (6)	1:06.98 (7) 35.45 (4)	1:42.43 (5) 35.45 (3)	2:17.88
5	3	Armi Airaksinen	SWE	30.52 (3) 34.35 (4)	1:04.87 (3) 36.41 (5)	1:41.28 (4) 38.11 (7)	2:19.39
6	2	Małgorzata Różycka	POL	31.65 (7) 35.04 (5)	1:06.69 (6) 36.76 (6)	1:43.45 (6) 36.25 (5)	2:19.70
7	1	Wilma van Velsen	NED	31.08 (5) 35.57 (7)	1:06.65 (5) 37.30 (7)	1:43.95 (7) 37.86 (6)	2:21.81

Final (21 July 1980 — 20:00)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	5	Ines Geißler	GDR	29.82 (1) 33.06 (2)	1:02.88 (1) 33.92 (4)	1:36.80 (2) 33.64 (1)	2:10.44	OR
2	3	Sybille Schönrock	GDR	30.19 (3) 33.07 (3)	1:03.26 (2) 33.21 (1)	1:36.47 (1) 33.98 (2)	2:10.45
3	4	Michelle Ford	AUS	30.51 (5) 32.80 (1)	1:03.31 (3) 33.86 (3)	1:37.17 (4) 34.49 (3)	2:11.66
4	6	Andrea Pollack	GDR	29.83 (2) 33.50 (4)	1:03.33 (4) 33.80 (2)	1:37.13 (3) 35.00 (5)	2:12.13
5	2	Dorota Brzozowska	POL	30.60 (6) 34.12 (6)	1:04.72 (6) 34.49 (5)	1:39.21 (5) 34.91 (4)	2:14.12
6	7	Ann Osgerby	GBR	30.35 (4) 34.10 (5)	1:04.45 (5) 35.00 (7)	1:39.45 (6) 35.38 (8)	2:14.83
7	8	Agneta Mårtensson	SWE	30.90 (8) 34.38 (8)	1:05.28 (8) 34.70 (6)	1:39.98 (7) 35.24 (6)	2:15.22
8	1	Alla Grishchenkova	URS	30.82 (7) 34.31 (7)	1:05.13 (7) 35.27 (8)	1:40.40 (8) 35.30 (7)	2:15.70