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The women's 200 metre backstroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on July 25, 1976.^[1]

Results

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nancy Garapick	Canada	2:16.49	Q, OR
2	Wendy Cook-Hogg	Canada	2:17.30	Q
3	Monique Rodahl	New Zealand	2:19.22
4	Naoko Miura	Japan	2:22.28
5	Gabriella Verrasztó	Hungary	2:23.36
6	Yoshimi Nishigawa	Japan	2:23.49
7	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	2:26.21
8	Sansanee Changkasiri	Thailand	2:48.56

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Antje Stille	East Germany	2:18.07	Q
2	Cheryl Gibson	Canada	2:20.14
3	Miriam Smith	United States	2:22.05
4	Antonella Roncelli	Italy	2:24.45
5	Joy Beasley	Great Britain	2:25.14
6	Angelika Grieser	West Germany	2:25.38
7	Karin Bormann	West Germany	2:26.72
8	Liliana Cian	Colombia	2:37.06

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Richter	East Germany	2:17.58	Q
2	Klavdiya Studennikova	Soviet Union	2:18.47	Q
3	Maryanne Graham	United States	2:19.07
4	Diane Edelijn	Netherlands	2:22.77
5	Heike John	West Germany	2:25.55
6	Kim Wilkinson	Great Britain	2:26.53
7	Silvia Fontana	Spain	2:31.37
8	Paola Ruggieri	Venezuela	2:34.89

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	2:17.62	Q
2	Melissa Belote	United States	2:17.63	Q
3	Nadiya Stavko	Soviet Union	2:17.67	Q
4	Glenda Robertson	Australia	2:18.62
5	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	2:24.94
6	Michelle de Vries	Australia	2:28.18
7	Claudia Bellotto	Argentina	2:32.60

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ulrike Richter	East Germany	2:13.43	OR
	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	2:14.97
	Nancy Garapick	Canada	2:15.60
4	Nadiya Stavko	Soviet Union	2:16.28
5	Melissa Belote	United States	2:17.27
6	Antje Stille	East Germany	2:17.55
7	Klavdiya Studennikova	Soviet Union	2:17.74
8	Wendy Cook-Hogg	Canada	2:17.95