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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 200 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	27 July
Competitors	21 from 13 nations
Winning time	2:11.77 WR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Linda Jezek (USA)	2:11.93	West Berlin, West Germany	28 August 1978
Olympic record	Ulrike Richter (GDR)	2:13.46	Montreal, Canada	25 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Heat 2	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	2:13.00	OR
27 July	Final	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	2:11.77	WR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	2:13.00	Q, OR
2	3	Cornelia Polit	East Germany	2:14.81	Q
3	1	Lisa Forrest	Australia	2:15.40	Q
4	3	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	2:15.53	Q
5	2	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	2:15.88	Q
6	1	Yolande Van der Straeten	Belgium	2:16.62	Q
7	1	Larisa Gorchakova	Soviet Union	2:16.68	Q
8	1	Carine Verbauwen	Belgium	2:16.96	Q
9	3	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	2:17.12
10	2	Georgina Parkes	Australia	2:17.78
11	2	Helen Jameson	Great Britain	2:17.84
12	1	Jane Admans	Great Britain	2:19.20
13	2	Monique Bosga	Netherlands	2:19.21
14	3	Teresa Rivera	Mexico	2:21.51
15	3	Yelena Kruglova	Soviet Union	2:22.41
16	1	Manuela Carosi	Italy	2:22.46
17	1	Michèle Ricaud	France	2:22.86
18	3	Agnieszka Czopek	Poland	2:23.06
19	3	Ágnes Fodor	Hungary	2:23.56
20	3	Magdalena Białas	Poland	2:26.85
21	1	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích	Vietnam	2:52.90
	2	Annika Uvehall	Sweden	DNS
	2	Andrea Kálmán	Hungary
	2	María Paris	Costa Rica

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	2:11.77	WR
	Cornelia Polit	East Germany	2:13.75
	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	2:14.14
4	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	2:15.20
5	Yolande van der Straeten	Belgium	2:15.58
6	Carine Verbauwen	Belgium	2:16.66
7	Lisa Forrest	Australia	2:16.75
8	Larisa Gorchakova	Soviet Union	2:17.72