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

Swimming at the 1980 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
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The final of the Women's 200 metres Backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Sunday July 27, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:11.77 WR
	Cornelia Polit (GDR)	2:13.75
	Birgit Treiber (GDR)	2:14.14
4.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	2:15.20
5.	Yolande van der Straeten (BEL)	2:15.58
6.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	2:16.66
7.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	2:16.75
8.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	2:17.72

Qualifying heats

• Held on Sunday 1980-07-27

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	2:15.40
2.	Yolande Van der Straeten (BEL)	2:16.62
3.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	2:16.68
4.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	2:16.96
5.	Jane Admans (GBR)	2:19.20
6.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	2:22.46
7.	Michèle Ricaud (FRA)	2:22.86
8.	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích (VIE)	2:52.90

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:13.00 OR
2.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	2:15.88
3.	Georgina Parkes (AUS)	2:17.78
4.	Helen Jameson (GBR)	2:17.84
5.	Monique Bosga (NED)	2:19.21

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Cornelia Polit (GDR)	2:14.81
2.	Birgit Treiber (GDR)	2:15.53
3.	Jolanda de Rover (NED)	2:17.12
4.	Teresa Rivera (MEX)	2:21.51
5.	Yelena Kruglova (URS)	2:22.41
6.	Agnieszka Czopek (POL)	2:23.06
7.	Ágnes Fodor (HUN)	2:23.56
8.	Magdalena Białas (POL)	2:26.85

References

• Results
• sports-reference