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

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 metres Individual Medley event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 3, 1984. The first eight qualified for the final, the next eight for the B-final.

Finals

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	2:12.64 OR
	Nancy Hogshead (USA)	2:15.17
	Michelle Pearson (AUS)	2:15.92
4.	Lisa Curry (AUS)	2:16.75
5.	Christiane Pielke (FRG)	2:17.82
6.	Manuela Dalla Valle (ITA)	2:19.69
7.	Petra Zindler (FRG)	2:19.86
8.	Katrine Bomstad (NOR)	2:20.48

RANK	B-FINAL	TIME
9.	Maarit Sihvonen-Vähäsaari (FIN)	2:19.27
10.	Michelle MacPherson (CAN)	2:19.34
11.	Alison Dozzo (CAN)	2:19.70
12.	Anette Philipsson (SWE)	2:21.54
13.	Gaynor Stanley (GBR)	2:21.71
14.	Zara Long (GBR)	2:22.25
15.	Hideka Koshimizu (JPN)	2:22.81
16.	Laurence Bensimon (FRA)	2:27.13

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	B-FINAL	TIME
17.	Sabine Pauwels (BEL)	2:22.86
18.	Maria Kardum (SWE)	2:22.87
19.	Gail Jonson (NZL)	2:25.00
20.	Brigitte Wanderer (AUT)	2:26.85
21.	Yan Hong (CHN)	2:27.95
22.	Helen Chow (MAS)	2:29.25
23.	Faten Ghattas (TUN)	2:29.77
24.	Karin Brandes (PER)	2:29.87
25.	Lotta Flink (HKG)	2:31.70
26.	Sharon Pickering (FIJ)	2:34.77
27.	Blanca Morales (GUA)	2:38.16
–	Silvia Persi (ITA)	DSQ
–	Rosa Silva (URU)	DSQ
–	Beda Leirvaag (NOR)	DSQ

References

• Official Report
• USA Swimming