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.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Diane Giebel 2:33.0 2 Yasuko Fujii 2:33.4 3 Margaret Auton 2:33.6 4 Sandra Whittleston 2:39.7 5 Carmen Gómez 2:44.7
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ellie Daniel 2:29.4 2 Vivienne Smith 2:39.7 3 Jeanne Warren 2:40.7 4 Lyn McClements 2:40.7 5 Lotten Andersson 2:42.1 6 Lidia Ramírez 2:42.1
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Toni Hewitt 2:29.1 2 Heike Hustede-Nagel 2:32.1 3 Christine Strübing 2:39.0 4 Nam Sang-nam 2:58.6
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ada Kok 2:26.3 2 Helga Lindner 2:29.4 3 Tetiana Dev'iatova 2:34.7 4 Marilyn Corson 2:41.8 5 Pauline Gray 2:43.6 6 Kristina Moir 2:51.1
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Ada Kok 2:24.7 OR Helga Lindner 2:24.8 Ellie Daniel 2:25.9 4 Toni Hewitt 2:26.2 5 Heike Hustede-Nagel 2:27.9 6 Diane Giebel 2:31.7 7 Margaret Auton 2:33.2 8 Yasuko Fujii 2:34.3
Key: OR = Olympic record
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