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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Women's 200 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	4 August 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	29 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:12.38 NR
Medalists
	← 1980 1988 →

The final of the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 4, 1984.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Cornelia Sirch (GDR)	2:09.91	Guayaquil, Ecuador	8 August 1982
Olympic record	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:11.77	Moscow, Soviet Union	27 July 1980

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	2:13.50	Q
2	1	4	Georgina Parkes	Australia	2:14.89	Q
3	4	5	Amy White	United States	2:15.40	Q
4	2	5	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	2:15.69	Q
5	3	5	Tori Trees	United States	2:16.23	Q
6	3	4	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	2:16.41	Q
7	4	4	Anca Pătrășcoiu	Romania	2:16.71	Q
8	2	7	Carmel Clark	New Zealand	2:16.78	Q, NR
9	2	6	Catherine White	Great Britain	2:18.02	q
10	1	5	Yolande van der Straeten	Belgium	2:18.49	q
11	3	2	Naomi Sekido	Japan	2:18.52	q
12	4	3	Katherine Read	Great Britain	2:18.92	q
13	2	3	Reema Abdo	Canada	2:19.05	q
14	4	6	Sandra Dahlmann	West Germany	2:19.59	q
15	4	7	Sofia Kraft	Sweden	2:19.73	q
16	3	3	Audrey Moore	Australia	2:20.12	q
17	3	6	Brigitte van der Lans	Netherlands	2:20.63
18	1	3	Sabine Pauwels	Belgium	2:21.36
19	4	2	Melinda Copp	Canada	2:21.39
20	2	2	Teresa Rivera	Mexico	2:22.94
21	4	1	Choi Yun-hui	South Korea	2:23.80
22	3	7	Nozomi Sunouchi	Japan	2:25.05
23	1	6	Manuela Carosi	Italy	2:25.45
24	1	7	Eva Gysling	Switzerland	2:25.69
25	2	1	Lotta Flink	Hong Kong	2:29.00
26	3	1	Yan Hong	China	2:32.33
27	1	1	Christine Jacob	Philippines	2:32.91
	1	2	Lise Lotte Nylund	Norway	DNS
	4	8	Kathy Wong	Hong Kong	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	7	Sandra Dahlmann	West Germany	2:16.93
10	4	Catherine White	Great Britain	2:17.63
11	6	Katherine Read	Great Britain	2:18.33
12	2	Reema Abdo	Canada	2:18.50
13	5	Yolande van der Straeten	Belgium	2:18.63
14	3	Naomi Sekido	Japan	2:18.87
15	1	Sofia Kraft	Sweden	2:19.37
16	8	Audrey Moore	Australia	2:21.36

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	2:12.38	NR
	3	Amy White	United States	2:13.04
	1	Anca Pătrășcoiu	Romania	2:13.29
4	5	Georgina Parkes	Australia	2:14.37
5	2	Tori Trees	United States	2:15.73
6	6	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	2:15.93
7	7	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	2:16.15
8	8	Carmel Clark	New Zealand	2:17.89