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

Event:	Women's 200m Butterfly
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December 2010
Competitors:	30
Win Value:	2:03.59
Gold:	Mireia Belmonte
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Jemma Lowe
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Petra Granlund
Bronzenoc:	SWE
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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The Women's 200 Butterfly at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 15 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 30 swimmers swam the preliminary heats,^[1] with the top-8 advancing to the final that evening.^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige		align=left	2:00.78		15 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	2:04.27		9 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	1	2	2:04.56	Q
2	2	3	2:04.84	Q
3	3	4	2:05.24	Q
4	2	4	2:05.26	Q
5	4	4	2:05.41	Q
6	3	3	2:05.68	Q
7	2	5	2:05.69	Q
8	1	7	2:06.18	Q
9	4	5	2:06.31
10	4	3	2:06.77
11	3	5	2:06.91
12	3	6	2:07.01
13	4	7	2:07.81
14	2	6	2:08.01
15	3	2	2:08.54
16	4	6	2:09.21
17	1	6	2:09.64
18	4	2	2:09.98
19	2	2	2:10.77
20	3	7	2:12.49
21	2	1	2:14.10
22	2	7	2:14.12
23	4	1	2:15.22
24	3	1	2:15.66
25	4	8	2:18.65
26	3	8	2:25.21
27	1	3	2:27.84
28	1	4	2:31.86
29	1	5	3:07.76
–	2	8	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	5	2:03.59	CR
	3	2:03.94
	6	2:04.38
4	4	2:04.68
5	8	2:04.78
6	2	2:04.98
7	7	2:06.52
8	1	2:06.98

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre butterfly (heats) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124191524/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_4_Heats_Women_200_Fly.pdf . 24 January 2011 .
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124192403/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_104_Finals_1_Women_200_Fly.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.