Women's Olympic Swimming: 200-meter Breaststroke
Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
200-meter Breaststroke
Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the women's 200-meter Breaststroke swimming competition from 1924 to the present.
| Year | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | Lucy Morton, GBR | 3:33.2 | OR |
| 1928 | Hilde Schrader, GER | 3:12.6 | |
| 1932 | Clare Dennis, AUS | 3:06.3 | OR |
| 1936 | Hideko Maehata, JPN | 3:03.6 | |
| 1948 | Petronella van Vliet, NED | 2:57.2 | |
| 1952 | Éva Székely, HUN | 2:51.7 | OR |
| 1956 | Ursula Happe, GER | 2:53.1 | OR |
| 1960 | Anita Lonsbrough, GBR | 2:49.5 | WR |
| 1964 | Galina Prozumenshikova, USSR | 2:46.4 | OR |
| 1968 | Sharon Wichman, USA | 2:44.4 | OR |
| 1972 | Beverley Whitfield, AUS | 2:41.71 | OR |
| 1976 | Marina Koshevaya, USSR | 2:33.35 | WR |
| 1980 | Lina Kaciusyte, USSR | 2:29.54 | OR |
| 1984 | Anne Ottenbrite, CAN | 2:30.38 | |
| 1988 | Silke Hörner, E. Ger | 2:26.71 | WR |
| 1992 | Kyoko Iwasaki, JPN | 2:26.65 | OR |
| 1996 | Penny Heyns, RSA | 2:25.41 | |
| 2000 | Agnes Kovacs, HUN | 2:24.35 | |
| 2004 | Amanda Beard, USA | 2:23.37 | OR |
| 2008 | Rebecca Soni, USA | 2:20.22 | WR |
| 2012 | Rebecca Soni, USA | 2:19.59 | OR, WR |
| 100-meter Breaststroke | Women's Olympic Swimming | 100-meter Butterfly |
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