2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:	12 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	28
Nations:	25
Win Value:	2:01.60
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Kelsi Dahlia
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 12 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 December at 10:54.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4			2:03.51	Q
2	3	4			2:04.68	Q
3	1	3			2:05.11	Q
4	1	5			2:05.19	Q
5	3	3			2:05.28	Q
6	2	4			2:05.99	Q
7	3	5			2:06.40	Q
8	3	6			2:06.49	Q, NR
9	2	5			2:06.57
10	2	3			2:07.74
11	2	2			2:07.98
12	2	6			2:08.57
13	1	2			2:08.62
14	3	2			2:10.71
15	1	6			2:11.23
	2	7
17	1	7			2:12.12
18	3	1			2:12.95
19	3	7			2:14.08
20	1	1			2:14.58
21	3	8			2:15.29
22	3	0			2:16.16
23	1	8			2:16.70
24	2	1			2:17.52
25	3	9			2:18.63
26	2	8			2:19.06
27	2	0	Lara Aklouk		2:25.23
28	1	0			2:29.24

Final

The final was held on 12 December at 19:14.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			2:01.60
	4			2:01.73	AM
	6			2:04.04
4	3			2:04.91
5	1			2:05.57
6	8			2:05.74	NR
7	7			2:05.86
8	2			2:06.24

Notes and References

1. Web site: Competition Schedule. Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. 10 December 2018.
2. Web site: Heats results . 2018-12-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181216031008/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0204EE01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-16 . dead .
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0204EE04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Final results