The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 25 October. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. This was the first appearance for this event in the Olympics for the women swimmers.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kaye Hall 2:31.1 2 Coby Sikkens 2:36.9 3 Jeanne Warren 2:37.9 4 Anne Walton 2:39.4 5 Jacqueline Brown 2:40.0 6 Tina Lek'veishvili 2:40.5 7 Francine Dauven 2:43.5
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 María Corominas 2:34.5 2 Tatyana Savelyeva 2:35.5 3 Ulla Patrikka 2:38.1 4 Kiki Caron 2:40.5
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Lynne Watson 2:33.5 2 Susie Atwood 2:35.2 3 Bep Weeteling 2:35.4 4 Anca Andreiu 2:38.8 5 María Procopio 2:49.2
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Elaine Tanner 2:30.9 2 Wendy Burrell 2:33.2 3 Doris Kohardt 2:34.7 4 Angelika Kraus 2:36.7 5 Glenda Stirling 2:40.3 6 Carmen Ferracuti 2:52.6
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Lillian Watson 2:29.2 2 Zdenka Gašparač 2:33.7 3 Bénédicte Duprez 2:34.5 4 Sylvie Canet 2:36.1 5 Yvette Hafner 2:37.7 6 Patricia Sentous 2:41.5 7 Felicia Ospitaletche 2:51.4 8 Rosa Hasbún 2:56.2
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Lillian Watson 2:24.8 OR Elaine Tanner 2:27.4 Kaye Hall 2:28.9 4 Lynne Watson 2:29.5 5 Wendy Burrell 2:32.3 6 Zdenka Gašparač 2:33.5 7 María Corominas 2:33.9 8 Bénédicte Duprez 2:36.6
Key: OR = Olympic record
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