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

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]

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
Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Alicia Coutts    Australia   Mireia Belmonte    Spain

Records

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

Heats

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

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

Semifinal 1

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

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

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	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

References

1. "BCN 2013 – Swimming: Schedule". FINA. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
2. Start list
3. "Kukors Sets World Record, Men's 4×100m Wins Gold". Team USA. 26 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
4. "Auburn's Kukors sets stunning world swim record". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 26 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
5. Heats Results
6. Semifinals Results
7. Final Results

External links

• Barcelona 2013 Swimming Coverage