2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200m Backstroke
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Date:	17 December 2010
Win Value:	2:01.67
Gold:	Alexianne Castel
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Missy Franklin
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Zhou Yanxin
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 17 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 36 swimmers swam in the preliminary heats,^[1] with the top-8 advancing to a final that evening.^[2]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

WR: Shiho Sakai, (Berlin, Germany, 14 November 2009)
CR: Kirsty Coventry, (Manchester 2008)

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	3	2:03.26	Q
2	5	4	2:03.51	Q
3	1	6	2:04.37	Q
4	5	5	2:04.62	Q
5	3	4	2:04.63	Q
6	5	2	2:05.93	Q
7	3	5	2:06.13	Q
8	3	6	2:06.50	Q
9	4	2	2:06.76
10	5	6	2:06.99
11	4	5	2:07.27
11	5	3	2:07.27
13	4	3	2:08.43
14	4	6	2:09.00
15	1	3	2:09.13
16	4	4	2:09.48
17	4	1	2:11.25
18	5	1	2:12.27
19	3	7	2:13.04
20	4	7	2:13.18
21	5	7	2:13.43
22	4	8	2:15.25
23	2	4	2:16.95
24	5	8	2:17.43
25	3	2	2:18.45
26	3	8	2:18.90
27	2	5	2:19.32
28	3	1	2:20.20
29	2	6	2:22.45
30	2	3	2:24.15
31	2	1	2:24.30
32	2	2	2:27.43
33	1	4	2:33.00
34	2	8	2:45.41
35	1	5	2:58.74
–	2	7	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Time
	5	2:01.67
	4	2:02.01
	3	2:03.22
4	6	2:03.61
5	2	2:04.10
6	1	2:06.05
7	7	2:06.23
8	8	2:06.74

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316143451/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_19_Heats_Women_200_Back.pdf. 16 March 2012. dead.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke (final) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124235429/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_119_Finals_1_Women_200_Back.pdf . 24 January 2011 .