Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The women’s 200 metre breaststroke event included in the swimming competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics took place on July 30–August 3 at the Empire Pool. In this event swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the fifth appearance of the event which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was also the first appearance of the event since the outbreak of World War II.