Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Appearance
Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 800 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 2 and 3.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool.
Medalists
[edit]Gold | Keena Rothhammer |
Silver | Shane Gould |
Bronze | Novella Calligaris |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Novella Calligaris | 9:02.96 | ||
2 | Andrea Eife | 9:22.88 | ||
3 | Barbara Schwarzfeldt | 9:24.89 | ||
4 | María Teresa Ramírez | 9:25.09 | ||
5 | Françoise Monod | 9:50.73 | ||
6 | Hsu Yue-yun | 10:08.49 | ||
7 | Eleni Avlonitou | 10:10.88 |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Keena Rothhammer | 8:59.69 | ||
2 | Hansje Bunschoten | 9:21.13 | ||
3 | Uta Schütz | 9:22.93 | ||
4 | Olga de Angulo | 9:43.27 | ||
5 | Helga Wagner | 9:44.17 | ||
6 | Olga Petrusyova | 10:04.96 | ||
7 | Silvia Borgini | 10:09.19 |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ann Simmons | 9:11.94 | ||
2 | Narelle Moras | 9:17.95 | ||
3 | Roselina Angee | 9:38.08 | ||
4 | June Green | 9:39.91 | ||
5 | Laura Vaca | 9:50.10 | ||
6 | Belinda Phillips | 9:53.99 | ||
7 | Avis Willington | 10:10.91 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Shane Gould | 9:10.84 | ||
2 | Gudrun Wegner | 9:11.32 | ||
3 | Karin Tülling | 9:25.73 | ||
4 | Federica Stabilini | 9:27.84 | ||
5 | Mary Beth Rondeau | 9:43.31 | ||
6 | Antonella Valentini | 9:49.07 | ||
7 | Patricia López | 10:06.39 |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jo Harshbarger | 9:14.46 | ||
2 | Karen Moras | 9:25.11 | ||
3 | Jaynie Parkhouse | 9:34.65 | ||
4 | Karen LeGresley | 9:37.13 | ||
5 | Brenda Holmes | 9:39.44 | ||
6 | Susan Jones | 9:47.35 | ||
7 | Kirsten Knudsen | 10:02.56 | ||
8 | Aisling O'Leary | 10:18.05 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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Keena Rothhammer | 8:53.68 | WR | ||
Shane Gould | 8:56.39 | |||
Novella Calligaris | 8:57.46 | |||
4 | Ann Simmons | 8:57.62 | ||
5 | Gudrun Wegner | 8:58.89 | ||
6 | Jo Harshbarger | 9:01.21 | ||
7 | Hansje Bunschoten | 9:16.69 | ||
8 | Narelle Moras | 9:19.06 |
Key: WR = World record
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 800 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2016.