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Swimming — 200 metres Backstroke, Women

Swimming — 200 metres Backstroke, Women

Times held	15
Total participants	386
Total countries	77

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1968	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	30	19
1972	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	37	20
1976	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	31	17
1980	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	21	13
1984	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	27	18
1988	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	32	23
1992	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	43	30
1996	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	33	28
2000	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	35	29
2004	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	34	27
2008	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	34	24
2012	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	37	31
2016	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	28	20
2020	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	27	22
2024	200 metres Backstroke, Women	Olympic	27	18

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1968	Pokey Watson	👁 Image USA	Elaine Tanner	👁 Image CAN	Kaye Hall	👁 Image USA
1972	Melissa Belote	👁 Image USA	Susie Atwood	👁 Image USA	Donna-Marie Gurr	👁 Image CAN
1976	Ulrike Richter	👁 Image GDR	Birgit Treiber	👁 Image GDR	Nancy Garapick	👁 Image CAN
1980	Rica Reinisch	👁 Image GDR	Cornelia Polit	👁 Image GDR	Birgit Treiber	👁 Image GDR
1984	Jolanda de Rover	👁 Image NED	Amy White	👁 Image USA	Anca Pătrășcoiu	👁 Image ROU
1988	Krisztina Egerszegi	👁 Image HUN	Kathrin Zimmermann	👁 Image GDR	Cornelia Sirch	👁 Image GDR
1992	Krisztina Egerszegi	👁 Image HUN	Dagmar Hase	👁 Image GER	Nicole Stevenson	👁 Image AUS
1996	Krisztina Egerszegi	👁 Image HUN	Whitney Hedgepeth	👁 Image USA	Cathleen Rund	👁 Image GER
2000	Diana Mocanu	👁 Image ROU	Roxana Maracineanu	👁 Image FRA	Miki Nakao	👁 Image JPN
2004	Kirsty Coventry	👁 Image ZIM	Stanislava Komarova	👁 Image RUS	Antje Buschschulte Reiko Nakamura	👁 Image GER 👁 Image JPN
2008	Kirsty Coventry	👁 Image ZIM	Margaret Hoelzer	👁 Image USA	Reiko Nakamura	👁 Image JPN
2012	Missy Franklin	👁 Image USA	Anastasiya Zuyeva	👁 Image RUS	Elizabeth Beisel	👁 Image USA
2016	Maya DiRado	👁 Image USA	Katinka Hosszú	👁 Image HUN	Hilary Caldwell	👁 Image CAN
2020	Kaylee McKeown	👁 Image AUS	Kylie Masse	👁 Image CAN	Emily Seebohm	👁 Image AUS
2024	Kaylee McKeown	👁 Image AUS	Regan Smith	👁 Image USA	Kylie Masse	👁 Image CAN

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	👁 Image USA	4	5	2	11
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	3	1	0	4
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	2	3	2	7
Australia	👁 Image AUS	2	0	2	4
Zimbabwe	👁 Image ZIM	2	0	0	2
Romania	👁 Image ROU	1	0	1	2
Netherlands	👁 Image NED	1	0	0	1
Canada	👁 Image CAN	0	2	4	6
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	0	2	0	2
Germany	👁 Image GER	0	1	2	3
France	👁 Image FRA	0	1	0	1
Japan	👁 Image JPN	0	0	3	3

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Total
Krisztina Egerszegi	👁 Image HUN	3	3
Kirsty Coventry	👁 Image ZIM	2	2
Kaylee McKeown	👁 Image AUS	2	2
Rica Reinisch	👁 Image GDR	1	1
Ulrike Richter	👁 Image GDR	1	1
Jolanda de Rover	👁 Image NED	1	1
Melissa Belote	👁 Image USA	1	1
Pokey Watson	👁 Image USA	1	1
Diana Mocanu	👁 Image ROU	1	1
Missy Franklin	👁 Image USA	1	1
Maya DiRado	👁 Image USA	1	1

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.

Country		Games	Athlete/Team	Placement
Argentina	👁 Image ARG	1968 Summer Olympics	Patricia Sentous	25	See all
Australia	👁 Image AUS	2020 Summer Olympics	Kaylee McKeown	1	Gold	See all
2024 Summer Olympics	Kaylee McKeown	1	Gold
Austria	👁 Image AUT	2020 Summer Olympics	Lena Grabowski	12	See all
Belgium	👁 Image BEL	1980 Summer Olympics	Yolande Van Der Straeten	5	See all
Bosnia and Herzegovina	👁 Image BIH	1996 Summer Olympics	Dijana Kvesić	32	See all
Bulgaria	👁 Image BUL	2024 Summer Olympics	Gabriela Georgieva	21	See all
Canada	👁 Image CAN	1968 Summer Olympics	Elaine Tanner	2	Silver	See all
2020 Summer Olympics	Kylie Masse	2	Silver
Chinese Taipei	👁 Image TPE	2004 Summer Olympics	Lin Man-Hsu	24	See all
Colombia	👁 Image COL	2012 Summer Olympics	Carolina Colorado	27	See all
Costa Rica	👁 Image CRC	1992 Summer Olympics	Sylvia Poll	7	See all
Croatia	👁 Image CRO	2004 Summer Olympics	Sanja Jovanović	13	See all
Cuba	👁 Image CUB	2000 Summer Olympics	Ana María González	26	See all
Czechia	👁 Image CZE	2012 Summer Olympics	Simona Baumrtová	14	See all
Czechoslovakia	👁 Image TCH	1992 Summer Olympics	Helena Straková	30	See all
Denmark	👁 Image DEN	2004 Summer Olympics	Louise Ørnstedt	6	See all
Dominican Republic	👁 Image DOM	2020 Summer Olympics	Krystal Lara	27	See all
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	1976 Summer Olympics	Ulrike Richter	1	Gold	See all
1980 Summer Olympics	Rica Reinisch	1	Gold
El Salvador	👁 Image ESA	2020 Summer Olympics	Carmen Márquez	23	See all
Fiji	👁 Image FIJ	1988 Summer Olympics	Sharon Pickering	32	See all
Finland	👁 Image FIN	1968 Summer Olympics	Ulla Patrikka	18	See all
France	👁 Image FRA	2000 Summer Olympics	Roxana Maracineanu	2	Silver	See all
Germany	👁 Image GER	1992 Summer Olympics	Dagmar Hase	2	Silver	See all
Great Britain	👁 Image GBR	2012 Summer Olympics	Lizzie Simmonds	4	See all
Greece	👁 Image GRE	2000 Summer Olympics	Katerina Bliamou	25	See all
Guatemala	👁 Image GUA	2004 Summer Olympics	Gisela Morales	26	See all
Honduras	👁 Image HON	1988 Summer Olympics	Ana Fortín	29	See all
Hong Kong, China	👁 Image HKG	2016 Summer Olympics	Claudia Lau	18	See all
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	1988 Summer Olympics	Krisztina Egerszegi	1	Gold	See all
1992 Summer Olympics	Krisztina Egerszegi	1	Gold
1996 Summer Olympics	Krisztina Egerszegi	1	Gold
Iceland	👁 Image ISL	2016 Summer Olympics	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	8	See all
Independent Olympic Athletes	👁 Image IOA	1992 Summer Olympics	Darija Alauf	37	See all
Individual Neutral Athletes	👁 Image AIN	2024 Summer Olympics	Anastasiya Shkurdai	8	See all
Indonesia	👁 Image INA	2016 Summer Olympics	Yessy Yosaputra	28	See all
Ireland	👁 Image IRL	1988 Summer Olympics	Michelle Smith	17	See all
Israel	👁 Image ISR	2020 Summer Olympics	Aviv Barzelay	15	See all
Italy	👁 Image ITA	1996 Summer Olympics	Lorenza Vigarani	7	See all
Japan	👁 Image JPN	2000 Summer Olympics	Miki Nakao	3	Bronze	See all
2004 Summer Olympics	Reiko Nakamura	=3	Bronze
2008 Summer Olympics	Reiko Nakamura	3	Bronze
Lebanon	👁 Image LBN	1972 Summer Olympics	Mireille Bassoul	DNS	See all
Malaysia	👁 Image MAS	1972 Summer Olympics	Ong Mei Lin	37	See all
Mauritius	👁 Image MRI	2024 Summer Olympics	Anishta Teeluck	27	See all
Mexico	👁 Image MEX	1980 Summer Olympics	Teresa Rivera	14	See all
Netherlands	👁 Image NED	1984 Summer Olympics	Jolanda de Rover	1	Gold	See all
New Zealand	👁 Image NZL	1992 Summer Olympics	Anna Simcic	5	See all
Norway	👁 Image NOR	2020 Summer Olympics	Ingeborg Løyning	17	See all
People's Republic of China	👁 Image CHN	2024 Summer Olympics	Peng Xuwei	6	See all
Philippines	👁 Image PHI	1992 Summer Olympics	Akiko Thomson	19	See all
Poland	👁 Image POL	2020 Summer Olympics	Laura Bernat	14	See all
Portugal	👁 Image POR	2024 Summer Olympics	Camila Rebelo	19	See all
Puerto Rico	👁 Image PUR	1988 Summer Olympics	Rita Garay	24	See all
ROC	👁 Image ROC	2020 Summer Olympics	Darya Ustinova	22	See all
Republic of Korea	👁 Image KOR	1996 Summer Olympics	Lee Chang-Ha	13	See all
Republic of Moldova	👁 Image MDA	2020 Summer Olympics	Tatiana Salcuțan	11	See all
Romania	👁 Image ROU	2000 Summer Olympics	Diana Mocanu	1	Gold	See all
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	2004 Summer Olympics	Stanislava Komarova	2	Silver	See all
2012 Summer Olympics	Anastasiya Zuyeva	2	Silver
Serbia and Montenegro	👁 Image SCG	1996 Summer Olympics	Maja Grozdanić	27	See all
Seychelles	👁 Image SEY	2020 Summer Olympics	Felicity Passon	26	See all
Singapore	👁 Image SGP	1972 Summer Olympics	Pat Chan	36	See all
Slovakia	👁 Image SVK	2000 Summer Olympics	Jana Korbasová	27	See all
Slovenia	👁 Image SLO	2008 Summer Olympics	Anja Čarman	16	See all
South Africa	👁 Image RSA	2000 Summer Olympics	Charlene Wittstock	14	See all
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	1976 Summer Olympics	Nadezhda Stavko	4	See all
Spain	👁 Image ESP	2000 Summer Olympics	Nina Zhivanevskaya	6	See all
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	1984 Summer Olympics	Sofia Kraft	15	See all
Switzerland	👁 Image SUI	1992 Summer Olympics	Nathalie Wunderlich	16	See all
Thailand	👁 Image THA	2004 Summer Olympics	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	29	See all
Türkiye	👁 Image TUR	2004 Summer Olympics	Şadan Derya Erke	=21	See all
2016 Summer Olympics	Ekaterina Avramova	21
Ukraine	👁 Image UKR	2016 Summer Olympics	Daryna Zevina	9	See all
Unified Team	👁 Image EUN	1992 Summer Olympics	Nina Zhivanevskaya	14	See all
United States	👁 Image USA	1968 Summer Olympics	Pokey Watson	1	Gold	See all
1972 Summer Olympics	Melissa Belote	1	Gold
2012 Summer Olympics	Missy Franklin	1	Gold
2016 Summer Olympics	Maya DiRado	1	Gold
United States Virgin Islands	👁 Image ISV	1988 Summer Olympics	Tricia Duncan	30	See all
Uruguay	👁 Image URU	1968 Summer Olympics	Felicia Ospitaletche	28	See all
Uzbekistan	👁 Image UZB	2004 Summer Olympics	Saida Iskandarova	32	See all
Venezuela	👁 Image VEN	1976 Summer Olympics	Paola Ruggeri	29	See all
Vietnam	👁 Image VIE	1980 Summer Olympics	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích	21	See all
West Germany	👁 Image FRG	1972 Summer Olympics	Annegret Kober	4	See all
Yugoslavia	👁 Image YUG	1968 Summer Olympics	Zdenka Gašparac	6	See all
Zimbabwe	👁 Image ZIM	2004 Summer Olympics	Kirsty Coventry	1	Gold	See all
2008 Summer Olympics	Kirsty Coventry	1	Gold

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Swimming — 200 metres Backstroke, Women

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