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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	6 December
Competitors:	45
Nations:	34
Win Value:	2:01.86
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Melanie Margalis
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katinka Hosszú		2:02.13	Dubai	31 August 2014
Championship record	Ye Shiwen		2:04.64	Istanbul	15 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

The heats were held at 11:51.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	3	2:06.93	Q
2	4	4	2:07.01	Q
3	5	4	2:07.04	Q
4	3	7	2:07.05	Q
5	5	5	2:07.38	Q
6	3	3	2:08.22	Q
7	5	2	2:08.52	Q
8	5	7	2:08.72	Q
9	3	4	2:08.74
10	4	5	2:08.75
11	3	5	2:09.03
12	5	6	2:09.26
13	5	3	2:09.31
14	4	2	2:09.70
15	4	6	2:09.75
16	3	2	2:10.46
17	5	8	2:10.51
18	5	0	2:10.57
19	4	7	2:10.94
20	4	1	2:11.40
21	1	7	2:12.15
22	3	0	2:12.18
23	3	6	2:12.45
24	4	6	2:12.88
25	5	1	2:13.15
26	5	9	2:14.93
27	3	1	2:16.10
28	2	8	2:18.46
29	2	3	2:18.60
30	4	0	2:18.77
31	3	9	2:19.19
32	2	1	2:19.33
33	2	2	2:19.89
34	2	7	2:20.41
35	2	9	2:20.56
36	2	6	2:20.85
37	2	4	2:22.11
38	2	5	2:22.86
39	1	1	2:23.80
40	4	9	2:23.83
41	1	5	2:26.65
42	2	0	2:28.18
43	1	4	2:29.65
44	1	6	2:30.07
45	1	2	2:31.74
—	1	3		DNS
—	3	8		DNS

The final was held at 19:25.^[3]