2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	3 December
Competitors:	34
Nations:	26
Win Value:	1:59.61
Gold:	Mireia Belmonte
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Katinka Hosszú
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Franziska Hentke
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 3 December.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige		2:00.78	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú		2:02.20	Istanbul	12 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

The heats were held at 10:44.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	2:02.42	Q
2	4	4	2:03.61	Q
3	2	6	2:04.71	Q
4	2	5	2:05.03	Q
5	4	3	2:05.17	Q
6	3	5	2:05.35	Q
7	3	6	2:05.44	Q
8	4	6	2:05.68	Q
9	4	1	2:06.01
10	2	3	2:06.07
11	3	2	2:06.42
12	3	3	2:06.66
13	4	2	2:06.68
14	2	4	2:07.41
15	4	7	2:07.91
16	3	7	2:08.34
17	2	2	2:08.39
18	4	8	2:08.81
19	4	5	2:09.51
20	2	1	2:09.81
21	2	7	2:09.83
22	3	1	2:11.97
23	3	0	2:12.21	NR
24	3	8	2:12.45
25	4	9	2:12.90
26	1	4	2:13.07
27	2	8	2:15.16
28	2	0	2:15.47
29	3	9	2:17.49
30	4	0	2:20.39
31	2	9	2:21.50
32	1	5	2:31.65
33	1	3	2:33.77
34	1	6	3:03.34

The final was held at 18:28.^[3]

Web site: Start list . 2014-12-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150209040843/http://omegatiming.com/Competition?id=00010E010DFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF&day=1 . 2015-02-09 . dead .
Web site: Heats Results . 2014-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140912/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032200FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032202FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results