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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	September 8, 1973
Competitors:	27
Nations:	18
Win Value:	2:13.766 WR
Gold:	Rosemarie Kother
Goldnoc:	GDR
Silver:	Roswitha Beier
Silvernoc:	GDR
Bronze:	Lynn Colella
Bronzenoc:	USA
Next:	1975

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.

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
8 September	Heat			2:23.870	CR
8 September	Heat			2:21.825	CR
8 September	Heat			2:18.876	CR
8 September	Heat			2:15.455	WR
8 September	Final			2:13.766	WR

Results

Heats

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-			2:15.455	Q, WR
2	3	-			2:18.876	Q, CR
3	3	-			2:20.363	Q
4	2	-			2:21.825	Q, CR
5	4	-			2:23.604	Q
6	1	-			2:23.870	Q, CR
7	4	-			2:24.537	Q
8	1	-			2:24.595	Q
9	2	-			2:24.791
10	3	-			2:25.304
11	3	-			2:25.818
12	2	-			2:27.220
13	1	-			2:27.269
14	2	-			2:28.030
15	3	-			2:28.580
16	2	-			2:29.727
17	1	-			2:29.835
18	4	-			2:29.955
19	1	-			2:30.181
20	2	-			2:30.884
21	2	-			2:30.977
22	1	-			2:32.436
23	4	-			2:32.903
24	3	-			2:37.098
25	3	-			2:38.930
26	4	-			-	DNS / DQ
27	4	-			-	DNS / DQ

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:13.766	WR
	5			2:16.777
	3			2:19.535
	2			2:21.964
	6			2:22.323
	7			2:22.570
	1			2:23.508
	8			2:25.689

Notes and References

1. October 1973. For the Record. Swimming World Magazine. 73. 2 June 2013.