Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 26, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 27, 2011 (final)
Competitors52 from 42 nations
Winning time1:55.58
Medalists
gold medal    Italy
silver medal    Australia
bronze medal    France
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Records edit

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Federica Pellegrini   Italy 1:52.98 Rome July 29, 2009

Results edit

Heats edit

49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 5 Allison Schmitt   United States 1:56.66 Q
2 7 4 Federica Pellegrini   Italy 1:56.87 Q
3 5 4 Bronte Barratt   Australia 1:57.37 Q
4 5 6 Ágnes Mutina   Hungary 1:57.40 Q
5 6 4 Kylie Palmer   Australia 1:57.42 Q
6 5 5 Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands 1:57.43 Q
7 7 6 Silke Lippok   Germany 1:57.53 Q
8 6 1 Lauren Boyle   New Zealand 1:57.72 Q
9 7 5 Camille Muffat   France 1.57.99 Q
10 4 4 Sara Isakovič   Slovenia 1:58.01 Q
11 7 8 Melania Costa Schmid   Spain 1:58.04 Q
12 6 3 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 1:58.26 Q
12 6 8 Barbara Jardin   Canada 1:58.26 Q
14 7 7 Evelyn Verrasztó   Hungary 1:58.27 Q
15 6 6 Tang Yi   China 1:58.30 Q
16 6 2 Haruka Ueda   Japan 1:58.74 swimoff
16 7 1 Hanae Ito   Japan 1:58.74 swimoff
18 5 1 Samantha Cheverton   Canada 1:58.83
19 5 3 Veronika Popova   Russia 1:58.89
20 7 2 Morgan Scroggy   United States 1:59.22
21 7 3 Zhu Qianwei   China 1:59.22
22 5 8 Nina Rangelova   Bulgaria 1:59.30
23 5 7 Joanne Jackson   Great Britain 1:59.36
24 5 2 Rebecca Adlington   Great Britain 1:59.40
25 4 1 Karin Prinsloo   South Africa 1:59.52
26 4 2 Pernille Blume   Denmark 1:59.96
27 6 7 Gabriella Fagundez   Sweden 2:00.05
28 4 3 Sze Hang Yu   Hong Kong 2:00.52
29 4 5 Cecilie Johannessen   Norway 2:00.56
30 3 3 Joerdis Steinegger   Austria 2:01.06
31 3 5 Melanie Nocher   Ireland 2:01.33
32 4 6 Daryna Zevina   Ukraine 2:01.50
33 4 7 Anna Stylianou   Cyprus 2:01.62
34 3 4 Liliana Ibanez   Mexico 2:01.70
35 4 8 Katarina Filova   Slovakia 2:01.96
36 3 8 Katarina Listopadova   Slovakia 2:02.15
37 3 7 Ranohon Amanova   Uzbekistan 2:02.89
38 3 2 Kim Jungh-Hye   South Korea 2:03.13
39 3 1 Natthanan Junkrajang   Thailand 2:03.68
40 2 4 Andrea Cedron   Peru 2:08.10
41 2 1 Bayan Jumah   Syria 2:09.08
42 2 2 Branka Vranjes   Bosnia and Herzegovina 2:09.64
43 2 3 Heather Arseth   Mauritius 2:10.93
44 2 7 Olivia de Maroussem   Mauritius 2:12.28
45 2 6 Ma Cheok Mei   Macau 2:12.39
46 2 8 Britany van Lange   Guyana 2:16.40
47 1 3 Victoria Chentsova   Northern Mariana Islands 2:27.86
48 1 5 Aure Fanchette   Seychelles 2:31.88
49 1 6 Jennet Saryyeva   Turkmenistan 2:41.27
1 4 Gouri Kotecha   Tanzania DNS
2 5 Victoria Ho   Jamaica DNS
3 6 Andreina Pinto   Venezuela DNS

Swimoff edit

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Haruka Ueda   Japan 1:58.19 Q
2 5 Hanae Ito   Japan 1:58.55

Semifinals edit

The semifinals were held at 19:14.[3]

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands 1:55.54 Q
2 4 Federica Pellegrini   Italy 1:56.42 Q
3 7 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 1:56.71 Q
4 5 Ágnes Mutina   Hungary 1:57.53
5 6 Lauren Boyle   New Zealand 1:58.09
6 8 Haruka Ueda   Japan 1:58.28
7 2 Sara Isakovič   Slovenia 1:58.52
8 1 Evelyn Verrasztó   Hungary 1:59.71

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Kylie Palmer   Australia 1:56.59 Q
2 2 Camille Muffat   France 1:56.62 Q
3 5 Bronte Barratt   Australia 1:56.90 Q
4 6 Silke Lippok   Germany 1:57.02 Q
5 4 Allison Schmitt   United States 1:57.07 Q
6 7 Melania Costa Schmid   Spain 1:57.83 NR
7 8 Tang Yi   China 1:57.91
8 1 Barbara Jardin   Canada 1:58.18

Final edit

The final was held at 18:32.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  5 Federica Pellegrini   Italy 1:55.58
  3 Kylie Palmer   Australia 1:56.04
  6 Camille Muffat   France 1:56.10
4 2 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 1:56.41
5 7 Bronte Barratt   Australia 1:56.60
6 8 Allison Schmitt   United States 1:56.98
7 4 Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands 1:57.63
8 1 Silke Lippok   Germany 1:58.26

References edit

  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle (swimoff)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-27.[permanent dead link]

External links edit