Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	July 28, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); July 29, 2013 (final)
Competitors	43 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:07.92
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre individual medley event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28–29 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Ariana Kukors (USA)	2:06.15	Rome, Italy	27 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Ariana Kukors (USA)	2:06.15	Rome, Italy	27 July 2009	^[3]^[4]

Results edit

Heats edit

The heats were held at 10:45.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.45	Q
2	5	4	Ye Shiwen	China	2:10.20	Q
3	5	3	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:11.12	Q
4	3	6	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:11.16	Q
5	3	4	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.54	Q
6	5	2	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:11.64	Q
7	4	4	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:11.88	Q
8	3	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:12.11	Q
9	5	6	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:12.28	Q
10	4	3	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:12.31	Q
10	4	5	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:12.31	Q
12	4	2	Miho Teramura	Japan	2:12.91	Q
13	3	3	Zhang Wenqing	China	2:13.40	Q
14	3	2	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	2:13.61	Q
15	4	7	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:13.84	Q
16	4	6	Beatriz Gómez Cortés	Spain	2:13.98	Q
17	4	1	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:14.02
18	4	0	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	2:14.38
19	5	0	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:14.57
20	5	7	Theresa Michalak	Germany	2:14.73
21	3	7	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	2:14.85
22	3	1	Alexandra Wenk	Germany	2:14.90
23	2	5	Erica Dittmer	Mexico	2:14.93	NR
24	2	6	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:14.98
25	5	1	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:14.98
26	4	8	Joanna Melo	Brazil	2:15.00
27	5	8	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	2:15.08
28	3	8	Hanna Dzerkal	Ukraine	2:16.52
29	2	1	Marlies Ross	South Africa	2:16.94
30	4	9	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:17.21	NR
31	3	9	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	2:17.87
32	2	2	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:17.90
33	3	0	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:18.18
34	2	4	Cheng Wan-jung	Chinese Taipei	2:18.47
35	5	9	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	2:18.60
36	2	7	Zara Bailey	Jamaica	2:18.88
37	2	3	Tanja Kylliäinen	Finland	2:20.09
38	2	8	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	2:20.19
39	2	9	McKayla Lightbourn	Bahamas	2:20.83
40	2	0	Chan Kin Lok	Hong Kong	2:22.09
41	1	6	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	2:27.56
42	1	4	Loreen Whitfield	American Samoa	2:28.05
43	1	5	Elvira Hasanova	Azerbaijan	2:30.27
44	1	3	Lianna Catherine Swan	Pakistan	2:32.61	NR

Semifinals edit

The semifinals were held at 18:24.^[6]

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ye Shiwen	China	2:09.12	Q
2	6	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:10.66	Q
3	2	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:11.21	Q
4	3	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:11.33	Q
5	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:11.69
6	1	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	2:12.67
7	7	Miho Teramura	Japan	2:14.02
8	8	Beatriz Gómez Cortés	Spain	2:15.11

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.59	Q
2	6	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:10.06	Q
3	7	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:10.23	Q
4	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:10.70	Q, WD
5	3	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.05	Q
6	1	Zhang Wenqing	China	2:11.34
7	2	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:11.50
8	8	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:16.12

Final edit

The final was held at 19:26.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.92
	3	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:09.39
	2	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:09.45
4	5	Ye Shiwen	China	2:10.48
5	7	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:10.73
6	1	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:10.95
7	6	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:11.32
8	8	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:12.03