Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	September 7, 1973
Competitors:	24
Nations:	17
Win Value:	2:20.522
Gold:	Melissa Belote
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Enith Brigitha
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Andrea Gyarmati
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Next:	1975

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records

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

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 September	Heat			2:23.123	CR
7 September	Heat			2:20.576	CR
7 September	Final			2:20.522	CR

Results

Heats

24 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-			2:20.576	Q, CR
2	1	-			2:23.123	Q, CR
3	2	-			2:23.586	Q
4	3	-			2:24.882	Q
5	4	-			2:24.932	Q
6	1	-			2:24.967	Q
7	3	-			2:25.434	Q
8	1	-			2:25.513	Q
9	2	-			2:25.941
10	4	-			2:26.369
11	1	-			2:26.965
12	3	-			2:27.508
13	3	-			2:29.282
14	4	-			2:30.864
15	2	-			2:31.004
16	2	-			2:31.975
17	2	-			2:33.964
18	1	-			2:34.964
19	3	-			2:35.394
20	4	-			2:38.871
21	4	-			2:39.033
22	2	-			2:41.703
23	1	-			2:45.299
24	3	-			2:51.648

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:20.522	CR
	6			2:22.152
	3			2:22.483
	2			2:22.660
	1			2:23.551
	5			2:23.596
	7			2:24.268
	8			2:26.053

Notes and References

1. October 1973. For the Record. Swimming World Magazine. 73. 14 May 2013.