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

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	3 August 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	30 from 22 nations
Winning time	2:12.64 OR
Medalists
Tracy Caulkins  United States Nancy Hogshead  United States Michelle Pearson  Australia
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Swimming 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
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The final of the women's 200 metre 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.^[1]

The event was reintroduced to the Olympic program after a 12-year absence.

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

World record	Ute Geweniger (GDR)	2:11.73	Magdeburg, East Germany	4 July 1981
Olympic record	Shane Gould (AUS)	2:23.07	Munich, West Germany	28 August 1972

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
3 August	Heat 4	Tracy Caulkins	United States	2:14.47	OR
3 August	Final A	Tracy Caulkins	United States	2:12.64	OR

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	4	4	Tracy Caulkins	United States	2:14.47	Q, OR
2	3	4	Nancy Hogshead	United States	2:16.29	Q
3	3	5	Michelle Pearson	Australia	2:17.46	Q
4	1	5	Christiane Pielke	West Germany	2:19.17	Q, NR
5	4	3	Kathrine Bomstad	Norway	2:19.88	Q, NR
6	4	5	Petra Zindler	West Germany	2:20.05	Q
7	3	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:20.50	Q
8	2	4	Lisa Curry-Kenny	Australia	2:20.57	Q
9	1	4	Michelle MacPherson	Canada	2:20.68	q
10	2	5	Alison Dozzo	Canada	2:20.85	q
11	3	6	Maarit Vähäsaari-Sihvonen	Finland	2:21.05	q
12	2	6	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	2:21.70	q
13	4	8	Sabine Pauwels	Belgium	2:22.86	q, WD
14	4	6	Maria Kardum	Sweden	2:22.87	q, WD
15	4	7	Hideka Koshimizu	Japan	2:23.38	q
16	2	3	Zara Long	Great Britain	2:23.89	q
17	1	3	Laurence Bensimon	France	2:24.34	q
18	1	6	Gaynor Stanley	Great Britain	2:24.94	q
19	1	2	Gail Jonson	New Zealand	2:25.00
20	2	2	Brigitte Wanderer	Austria	2:26.85
21	2	7	Yan Hong	China	2:27.95
22	3	1	Helen Chow	Malaysia	2:29.25
23	1	7	Faten Ghattas	Tunisia	2:29.77
24	3	7	Karin Brandes	Peru	2:29.87
25	2	1	Lotta Flink	Hong Kong	2:31.70
26	1	1	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	2:34.77
27	4	1	Blanca Morales	Guatemala	2:38.16
	3	2	Silvia Persi	Italy	DNS
	3	8	Rosa María Silva	Uruguay	DNS
	4	2	Beda Leirvaag	Norway	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Maarit Vähäsaari-Sihvonen	Finland	2:19.27	NR
10	4	Michelle MacPherson	Canada	2:19.34
11	5	Alison Dozzo	Canada	2:19.70
12	6	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	2:21.54
13	8	Gaynor Stanley	Great Britain	2:21.71
14	7	Zara Long	Great Britain	2:22.25
15	2	Hideka Koshimizu	Japan	2:22.81
16	1	Laurence Bensimon	France	2:27.13

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tracy Caulkins	United States	2:12.64	OR
	5	Nancy Hogshead	United States	2:15.17
	3	Michelle Pearson	Australia	2:15.92	OC
4	8	Lisa Curry-Kenny	Australia	2:16.75
5	6	Christiane Pielke	West Germany	2:17.82	NR
6	1	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:19.69
7	7	Petra Zindler	West Germany	2:19.86
8	2	Kathrine Bomstad	Norway	2:20.48

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