Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 2 and 3.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Keena Rothhammer
  United States
Silver Shane Gould
  Australia
Bronze Novella Calligaris
  Italy

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Novella Calligaris   Italy 9:02.96
2 Andrea Eife   East Germany 9:22.88
3 Barbara Schwarzfeldt   West Germany 9:24.89
4 María Teresa Ramírez   Mexico 9:25.09
5 Françoise Monod   Switzerland 9:50.73
6 Hsu Yue-yun   Chinese Taipei 10:08.49
7 Eleni Avlonitou   Greece 10:10.88

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Keena Rothhammer   United States 8:59.69
2 Hansje Bunschoten   Netherlands 9:21.13
3 Uta Schütz   West Germany 9:22.93
4 Olga de Angulo   Colombia 9:43.27
5 Helga Wagner   West Germany 9:44.17
6 Olga Petrusyova   Soviet Union 10:04.96
7 Silvia Borgini   Argentina 10:09.19

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ann Simmons   United States 9:11.94
2 Narelle Moras   Australia 9:17.95
3 Roselina Angee   Colombia 9:38.08
4 June Green   Great Britain 9:39.91
5 Laura Vaca   Mexico 9:50.10
6 Belinda Phillips   Jamaica 9:53.99
7 Avis Willington   Great Britain 10:10.91

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Shane Gould   Australia 9:10.84
2 Gudrun Wegner   East Germany 9:11.32
3 Karin Tülling   East Germany 9:25.73
4 Federica Stabilini   Italy 9:27.84
5 Mary Beth Rondeau   Canada 9:43.31
6 Antonella Valentini   Italy 9:49.07
7 Patricia López   Argentina 10:06.39

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jo Harshbarger   United States 9:14.46
2 Karen Moras   Australia 9:25.11
3 Jaynie Parkhouse   New Zealand 9:34.65
4 Karen LeGresley   Canada 9:37.13
5 Brenda Holmes   Canada 9:39.44
6 Susan Jones   Great Britain 9:47.35
7 Kirsten Knudsen   Denmark 10:02.56
8 Aisling O'Leary   Ireland 10:18.05

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Keena Rothhammer   United States 8:53.68 WR
  Shane Gould   Australia 8:56.39
  Novella Calligaris   Italy 8:57.46
4 Ann Simmons   United States 8:57.62
5 Gudrun Wegner   East Germany 8:58.89
6 Jo Harshbarger   United States 9:01.21
7 Hansje Bunschoten   Netherlands 9:16.69
8 Narelle Moras   Australia 9:19.06

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's 800 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2016.