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200 metres Freestyle, Women

Date	24 July 1980
Status	Olympic
Location	Plavatelny basseyn, Sportivny kompleks Olimpiysky, Moskva
Participants	22 from 14 countries

This was one of the few events at which an American swimmer might have been favored. At the 1978 World Championships, Sippy Woodhead won gold over East German Barbara Krause, Woodhead breaking the world record in 1:58.53. In 1979 Woodhead lowered that mark twice, leaving it at 1:58.23 from a Tokyo meet in September. In her absence Krause was favored, already having won the 100 freestyle in Moscow. But the leader of the race for three laps was her teammate Ines Diers, and it took a 28.47 final 50 for Krause to pull out the gold medal, Diers slowing to finish second 1.31 seconds behind. Bronze went to their teammate Carmela Schmidt, as the GDR women swept the medals, one of six times in Moscow they accomplished that. At the US Nationals on 1 August, Sippy Woodhead won in 1:59.44, over a second slower than Krause’s gold-medal winning time.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	Final
1	Barbara Krause	GDR	2:01.18 (1 h4)	1:58.33 (1)	Gold
2	Ines Diers	GDR	2:00.27 (1 h2)	1:59.64 (2)	Silver
3	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	2:02.32 (1 h3)	2:01.44 (3)	Bronze
4	Olga Klevakina	URS	2:02.36 (2 h4)	2:02.29 (4)
5	Reggie de Jong	NED	2:02.66 (1 h1)	2:02.76 (5)
6	June Croft	GBR	2:03.95 (2 h3)	2:03.15 (6)
7	Nataliya Strunnikova	URS	2:03.36 (2 h1)	2:03.74 (7)
8	Irina Aksyonova	URS	2:03.63 (3 h1)	2:04.00 (8)
9	Annelies Maas	NED	2:04.07 (2 h2)	–
10	Rosemary Brown	AUS	2:04.59 (3 h3)	–
11	Guylaine Berger	FRA	2:04.60 (3 h4)	–
12	Pascale Verbauwen	BEL	2:05.34 (4 h4)	–
13	Sonya Dangalakova	BUL	2:05.67 (4 h3)	–
14	Natalia Mas	ESP	2:05.73 (4 h1)	–
15	Tina Gustafsson	SWE	2:05.84 (5 h4)	–
16	Karen Van de Graaf	AUS	2:06.06 (3 h2)	–
17	Sofia Dara	GRE	2:07.56 (5 h1)	–
18	Jackie Willmott	GBR	2:08.04 (5 h3)	–
19	Dobrinka Mincheva	BUL	2:09.09 (4 h2)	–
20	Irinel Pănulescu	ROU	2:09.94 (6 h3)	–
21	Celeste García	PER	2:13.05 (6 h4)	–
22	Soad Fezzani	LBA	2:30.14 (7 h3)	–
DNS	Isabel Reuss	MEX	– (DNS h1)	–
DNS	María París	CRC	– (DNS h2)	–
DNS	Agneta Eriksson	SWE	– (DNS h2)	–
DNS	Michelle Ford	AUS	– (DNS h4)	–

Round One (24 July 1980 — 11:00)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	3	Reggie de Jong	NED	29.33 (1) 31.18 (1)	1:00.51 (1) 31.27 (1)	1:31.78 (1) 30.88 (3)	2:02.66	Q
2	4	Nataliya Strunnikova	URS	29.61 (2) 31.30 (2)	1:00.91 (2) 31.72 (2)	1:32.63 (2) 30.73 (2)	2:03.36	Q
3	5	Irina Aksyonova	URS	29.84 (3) 31.69 (3)	1:01.53 (3) 31.98 (4)	1:33.51 (3) 30.12 (1)	2:03.63	Q
4	6	Natalia Mas	ESP	30.06 (4) 31.86 (4)	1:01.92 (4) 31.94 (3)	1:33.86 (4) 31.87 (4)	2:05.73
5	7	Sofia Dara	GRE	30.39 (5) 32.38 (5)	1:02.77 (5) 32.68 (5)	1:35.45 (5) 32.11 (5)	2:07.56
DNS	2	Isabel Reuss	MEX	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	4	Ines Diers	GDR	28.39 (1) 30.37 (1)	58.76 (1) 30.58 (1)	1:29.34 (1) 30.93 (1)	2:00.27	Q
2	5	Annelies Maas	NED	29.03 (2) 31.34 (2)	1:00.37 (2) 31.74 (2)	1:32.11 (2) 31.96 (2)	2:04.07
3	3	Karen Van de Graaf	AUS	29.19 (3) 31.71 (3)	1:00.90 (3) 33.00 (3)	1:33.90 (3) 32.16 (3)	2:06.06
4	2	Dobrinka Mincheva	BUL	29.29 (4) 31.97 (4)	1:01.26 (4) 33.79 (4)	1:35.05 (4) 34.04 (4)	2:09.09
DNS	7	María París	CRC	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–
DNS	6	Agneta Eriksson	SWE	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	4	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	28.90 (1) 30.74 (1)	59.64 (1) 31.13 (1)	1:30.77 (1) 31.55 (1)	2:02.32	Q
2	6	June Croft	GBR	29.30 (2) 31.04 (2)	1:00.34 (2) 31.83 (2)	1:32.17 (2) 31.78 (2)	2:03.95	Q
3	3	Rosemary Brown	AUS	29.39 (3) 31.25 (4)	1:00.64 (3) 32.02 (3)	1:32.66 (3) 31.93 (3)	2:04.59
4	2	Sonya Dangalakova	BUL	30.01 (5) 31.05 (3)	1:01.06 (4) 32.57 (4)	1:33.63 (4) 32.04 (4)	2:05.67
5	5	Jackie Willmott	GBR	29.76 (4) 32.26 (5)	1:02.02 (5) 32.93 (5)	1:34.95 (5) 33.09 (6)	2:08.04
6	7	Irinel Pănulescu	ROU	30.28 (6) 33.04 (6)	1:03.32 (6) 33.67 (6)	1:36.99 (6) 32.95 (5)	2:09.94
7	1	Soad Fezzani	LBA	34.22 (7) 37.79 (7)	1:12.01 (7) 39.19 (7)	1:51.20 (7) 38.94 (7)	2:30.14

Heat Four

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	4	Barbara Krause	GDR	28.52 (1) 31.54 (2)	1:00.06 (1) 31.08 (1)	1:31.14 (1) 30.04 (1)	2:01.18	Q
2	5	Olga Klevakina	URS	29.57 (2) 31.14 (1)	1:00.71 (2) 31.15 (2)	1:31.86 (2) 30.50 (2)	2:02.36	Q
3	2	Guylaine Berger	FRA	30.02 (4) 31.92 (5)	1:01.94 (5) 32.08 (4)	1:34.02 (4) 30.58 (3)	2:04.60
4	7	Pascale Verbauwen	BEL	30.08 (5) 31.83 (4)	1:01.91 (4) 32.49 (5)	1:34.40 (5) 30.94 (4)	2:05.34
5	3	Tina Gustafsson	SWE	29.88 (3) 31.82 (3)	1:01.70 (3) 31.83 (3)	1:33.53 (3) 32.31 (5)	2:05.84
6	1	Celeste García	PER	31.31 (6) 33.46 (6)	1:04.77 (6) 34.24 (6)	1:39.01 (6) 34.04 (6)	2:13.05
DNS	6	Michelle Ford	AUS	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–

Final (24 July 1980 — 20:00)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time
1	5	Barbara Krause	GDR	28.21 (2) 30.75 (3)	58.96 (2) 30.80 (2)	1:29.76 (2) 28.57 (1)	1:58.33	OR
2	4	Ines Diers	GDR	28.15 (1) 30.45 (1)	58.60 (1) 30.09 (1)	1:28.69 (1) 30.95 (4)	1:59.64
3	3	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	28.40 (3) 30.58 (2)	58.98 (3) 31.02 (3)	1:30.00 (3) 31.44 (7)	2:01.44
4	6	Olga Klevakina	URS	29.54 (7) 31.01 (=4)	1:00.55 (7) 31.47 (4)	1:32.02 (6) 30.27 (2)	2:02.29
5	2	Reggie de Jong	NED	28.92 (5) 31.01 (=4)	59.93 (5) 31.60 (5)	1:31.53 (4) 31.23 (5)	2:02.76
6	8	June Croft	GBR	28.43 (4) 31.06 (6)	59.49 (4) 32.10 (6)	1:31.59 (5) 31.56 (8)	2:03.15
7	7	Nataliya Strunnikova	URS	29.03 (6) 31.26 (7)	1:00.29 (6) 32.17 (7)	1:32.46 (7) 31.28 (6)	2:03.74
8	1	Irina Aksyonova	URS	29.65 (8) 31.69 (8)	1:01.34 (8) 32.24 (8)	1:33.58 (8) 30.42 (3)	2:04.00