Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. This was the first time for this event for the women swimmers.

Medalists

Gold	Ada Kok  Netherlands
Silver	Helga Lindner  East Germany
Bronze	Ellie Daniel  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Diane Giebel	United States	2:33.0
2	Yasuko Fujii	Japan	2:33.4
3	Margaret Auton	Great Britain	2:33.6
4	Sandra Whittleston	New Zealand	2:39.7
5	Carmen Gómez	Colombia	2:44.7

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ellie Daniel	United States	2:29.4
2	Vivienne Smith	Ireland	2:39.7
3	Jeanne Warren	Canada	2:40.7
4	Lyn McClements	Australia	2:40.7
5	Lotten Andersson	Sweden	2:42.1
6	Lidia Ramírez	Mexico	2:42.1

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Toni Hewitt	United States	2:29.1
2	Heike Hustede-Nagel	West Germany	2:32.1
3	Christine Strübing	East Germany	2:39.0
4	Nam Sang-nam	South Korea	2:58.6

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ada Kok	Netherlands	2:26.3
2	Helga Lindner	East Germany	2:29.4
3	Tetiana Dev'iatova	Soviet Union	2:34.7
4	Marilyn Corson	Canada	2:41.8
5	Pauline Gray	Australia	2:43.6
6	Kristina Moir	Puerto Rico	2:51.1

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ada Kok	Netherlands	2:24.7	OR
	Helga Lindner	East Germany	2:24.8
	Ellie Daniel	United States	2:25.9
4	Toni Hewitt	United States	2:26.2
5	Heike Hustede-Nagel	West Germany	2:27.9
6	Diane Giebel	United States	2:31.7
7	Margaret Auton	Great Britain	2:33.2
8	Yasuko Fujii	Japan	2:34.3

Key: OR = Olympic record