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, NED2:57.2
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
1996Penny Heyns, RSA2:25.41
2000Agnes Kovacs, HUN2:24.35
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

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