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

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 200 metre butterfly; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	21 July
Competitors	21 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:10.44 OR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 21 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Mary Meagher (USA)	2:07.01	Fort Lauderdale, United States	3 September 1979
Olympic record	Andrea Pollack (GDR)	2:11.41	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Final	Ines Geißler	East Germany	2:10.44	OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Michelle Ford	Australia	2:12.72	Q
2	2	Ines Geißler	East Germany	2:13.23	Q
3	1	Sybille Schönrock	East Germany	2:13.68	Q
4	3	Andrea Pollack	East Germany	2:13.88	Q
5	1	Dorota Brzozowska	Poland	2:14.74	Q
6	1	Ann Osgerby	Great Britain	2:15.17	Q
7	3	Alla Grishchenkova	Soviet Union	2:16.01	Q
8	2	Agneta Mårtensson	Sweden	2:16.41	Q
9	1	Eva Miklósfalvi	Hungary	2:17.32
10	2	Cinzia Savi Scarponi	Italy	2:17.53
11	2	Karen Ramsay	Australia	2:17.82
12	3	Sonja Hausladen	Austria	2:17.88
13	1	Larisa Polivoda	Soviet Union	2:17.99
14	2	Janet Osgerby	Great Britain	2:18.01
15	3	Armi Airaksinen	Sweden	2:19.39
16	3	Małgorzata Różycka	Poland	2:19.70
17	2	Maria Paris	Costa Rica	2:21.14
18	3	Wilma van Velsen	Netherlands	2:21.81
19	1	Carole Brook	Switzerland	2:24.82
20	2	Marion Michel	Belgium	2:25.10
21	1	Celeste García	Peru	2:26.07

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ines Geißler	East Germany	2:10.44	OR
	Sybille Schönrock	East Germany	2:10.45
	Michelle Ford	Australia	2:11.66
4	Andrea Pollack	East Germany	2:12.13
5	Dorota Brzozowska	Poland	2:14.12
6	Ann Osgerby	Great Britain	2:14.83
7	Agneta Mårtensson	Sweden	2:15.22
8	Alla Grishchenkova	Soviet Union	2:15.70