Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event, which was established in 1924. The competition was held on Saturday August 6, 1932 and on Tuesday August 9, 1932.

Eleven swimmers from seven nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Clare Dennis  Australia	Hideko Maehata  Japan	Else Jacobsen  Denmark

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World record	3:03.4	Else Jacobsen	Stockholm (SWE)	May 11, 1932
Olympic record	3:11.2	Hilde Schrader	Amsterdam (NED)	August 8, 1928

In the first semi-final Clare Dennis set a new Olympic record with 3:08.2 minutes. In the final she bettered this record with 3:06.3 minutes.

Results

Semifinals

Saturday August 6, 1932: The fastest two in each semi-final and the fastest third-placed from across the semi-finals advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Clare Dennis (AUS)	3:08.2	QQ OR
2	Margaret Hoffman (USA)	3:14.7	QQ
3	Dorothy Prior (CAN)	3:33.2

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Else Jacobsen (DEN)	3:12.1	QQ
2	Ann Govednik (USA)	3:15.9	QQ
3	Cecelia Wolstenholme (GBR)	3:24.5
4	Janet Sheather (CAN)	3:46.1

Semifinal 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Hideko Maehata (JPN)	3:10.7	QQ
2	Margery Hinton (GBR)	3:13.5	QQ
3	Jane Cadwell (USA)	3:20.0	QQ
4	Maria Lenk (BRA)	3:26.6

Final

Tuesday August 9, 1932:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Clare Dennis (AUS)	3:06.3 OR
2	Hideko Maehata (JPN)	3:06.4
3	Else Jacobsen (DEN)	3:07.1
4	Margery Hinton (GBR)	3:11.7
5	Margaret Hoffman (USA)	3:11.8
6	Ann Govednik (USA)	3:16.0
7	Jane Cadwell (USA)	3:18.2

External links

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 15 October 2008.