Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The women’s 200 metre breaststroke event included in the swimming competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place on July 23 at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow Soviet Union. In this event swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the thirteenth appearance of the event which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.