Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	30 July 1984 (heats and finals)
Competitors	23 from 16 nations
Winning time	2:30.38
Medalists
Anne Ottenbrite   Canada   Susan Rapp   United States   Ingrid Lempereur   Belgium

Swimming events at the 1984 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 final of the women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on 30 July 1984.

Records

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

World record	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:28.36 s	Potsdam, East Germany	6 April 1979
Olympic record	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:29.54 s	Moscow, Soviet Union	23 July 1980

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	2	Lempereur, IngridIngrid Lempereur	Belgium	2:32.46	QA, NR[1]
2	2	6	Kellett, SharonSharon Kellett	Australia	2:33.23	QA, NR[1]
3	1	4	Ottenbrite, AnneAnne Ottenbrite	Canada	2:33.43	QA
4	2	4	Rapp, SusanSusan Rapp	United States	2:33.46	QA
5	3	4	Nagasaki, HirokoHiroko Nagasaki	Japan	2:34.46	QA
5	3	5	Hasse, UteUte Hasse	West Germany	2:34.46	QA
7	2	3	Brownsdon, SukiSuki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:35.54	QA
7	3	3	Rhodenbaugh, KimKim Rhodenbaugh	United States	2:35.54	QA
9	3	6	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:35.75	QB
10	2	5	Belotti, LauraLaura Belotti	Italy	2:35.99	QB
11	1	3	Boscatto, AliciaAlicia Boscatto	Argentina	2:36.38	QB
12	1	5	Lubawski, MaryMary Lubawski	Canada	2:36.65	QB
13	1	6	van Staveren, PetraPetra van Staveren	Netherlands	2:37.20	QB
14	2	2	Holmström, AnnelieAnnelie Holmström	Sweden	2:37.21	QB
15	3	2	Douglas, DimityDimity Douglas	Australia	2:38.47	QB
16	2	7	Stanley, GaynorGaynor Stanley	Great Britain	2:38.54	QB
17	3	1	Guido, SaraSara Guido	Mexico	2:38.87	NR[1]
18	3	7	Hillenius, PetraPetra Hillenius	Netherlands	2:41.57
19	1	7	Iwasaki, KaoriKaori Iwasaki	Japan	2:42.69
20	2	1	AgustsdottirGuðrún Ágústsdóttir	Iceland	2:44.85	NR[1]
20	3	8	Silva, Rosa MaríaRosa María Silva	Uruguay	2:50.01
21	1	1	Chow, Lai YeeLai Yee Chow	Hong Kong	2:50.45
22	2	8	Lardizajal, IsabelIsabel Lardizajal	Honduras	3:04.26

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:36.23
10	2	van Staveren, PetraPetra van Staveren	Netherlands	2:36.32
11	5	Belotti, LauraLaura Belotti	Italy	2:36.49
12	6	Lubawski, MaryMary Lubawski	Canada	2:36.55
13	3	Boscatto, AliciaAlicia Boscatto	Argentina	2:36.96
14	7	Holmström, AnnelieAnnelie Holmström	Sweden	2:37.62
15	8	Stanley, GaynorGaynor Stanley	Great Britain	2:39.32
16	1	Douglas, DimityDimity Douglas	Australia	2:39.33

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	3	Ottenbrite, AnneAnne Ottenbrite	Canada	2:30.38	NR[1]
02 !	6	Rapp, SusanSusan Rapp	United States	2:31.15	NR[1]
03 !	4	Lempereur, IngridIngrid Lempereur	Belgium	2:31.40	NR[1]
4	2	Nagasaki, HirokoHiroko Nagasaki	Japan	2:32.93
5	5	Kellett, SharonSharon Kellett	Australia	2:33.60
6	7	Hasse, UteUte Hasse	West Germany	2:33.82	NR[1]
7	1	Brownsdon, SukiSuki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:35.07
8	8	Rhodenbaugh, KimKim Rhodenbaugh	United States	2:35.51

References

General

• 1984 Los Angeles Volume 2 (PDF). Participants and results (Official Report of the Organising Committee of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad ed.). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. 1984. p. 547. Retrieved 29 June 2012. 

Specific