2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 200m Individual Medley
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December (heats and final)
Win Value:	2:04.64
Gold:	Ye Shiwen
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Katinka Hosszú
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Hannah Miley
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

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The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Julia Smit		align=left	2:04.60		19 December 2009
Championship record			align=left	2:05.73		18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	4		2:07.07	Q
2	4	4		2:08.09	Q
3	5	5		2:08.48	Q
4	3	4		2:08.86	Q
5	3	3		2:09.41	Q
6	4	7		2:09.52	Q
7	4	5		2:09.94	Q
8	3	1		2:10.42	Q
9	5	8		2:10.53
10	5	2		2:10.68
11	5	1		2:11.16
12	3	8		2:11.39
13	4	6		2:11.59
14	3	6		2:11.63
15	4	3		2:11.74
16	1	6		2:11.75
17	3	7		2:11.91
18	5	3		2:12.14
19	4	1		2:12.24
20	5	6		2:12.54
21	4	2		2:13.84
22	3	2		2:13.95
23	4	8		2:14.01
24	3	5		2:14.03
25	5	7		2:14.48
26	5	0		2:15.38
27	5	9		2:15.70
28	4	0		2:15.88
29	3	0		2:16.16
30	2	4		2:16.78	NR
31	3	9		2:17.83
32	4	9		2:19.89
33	2	7		2:21.83
34	2	5		2:23.78
35	2	0		2:25.53
36	2	3		2:30.22
37	2	9		2:31.12
38	2	1		2:31.57
39	2	8		2:35.23
40	2	6		2:37.77
41	5	5		2:43.13
	1	3
	1	4
	2	2

Final

The final was held at 20:24.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			2:04.64	CR, AS
	4			2:04.72
	6			2:07.12
4	3			2:07.36
5	7			2:07.77
6	8			2:08.63
7	1			2:09.16
8	2			2:11.66

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110535/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042400FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre medley (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100906/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042402FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.