Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Swimming events at the 1972 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 individual medley event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 28. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

Gold	Shane Gould Australia
Silver	Kornelia Ender East Germany
Bronze	Lynn Vidali United States

Results

Heats

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Shane Gould	Australia	2:23.07	WR
	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:23.59
	Lynn Vidali	United States	2:24.06
4	Jenny Bartz	United States	2:24.55
5	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:24.83
6	Evelyn Stolze	East Germany	2:25.90
7	Yoshimi Nishigawa	Japan	2:26.35
8	Carolyn Woods	United States	2:27.42