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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	September 4, 1973
Competitors:	30
Nations:	22
Win Value:	2:20.518 WR
Gold:	Andrea Hübner
Goldnoc:	GDR
Silver:	Kornelia Ender
Silvernoc:	GDR
Bronze:	Kathy Heddy
Bronzenoc:	USA
Next:	1975

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.

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
4 September	Heat			2:28.842	CR
4 September	Heat			2:28.306	CR
4 September	Heat			2:24.168	CR
4 September	Final			2:20.518	WR

Results

Heats

30 swimmers participated in 4 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^{[1] [2]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-			2:24.16	Q, CR
2	4	-			2:25.31	Q
3	3	-			2:26.49	Q
4	3	-			2:26.72	Q
5	2	-			2:28.30	Q, CR
6	4	-			2:28.66	Q
7	1	-			2:28.84	Q, CR
8	4	-			2:29.55	Q
9	3	-			2:29.99
10	2	-			2:30.03
11	1	-			2:30.19
12	1	-			2:30.48
13	2	-			2:31.28
14	4	-			2:32.23
15	4	-			2:32.72
16	4	-			2:32.95
17	2	-			2:32.95
18	1	-			2:33.09
19	4	-			2:33.93
20	3	-			2:34.73
21	2	-			2:36.42
22	3	-			2:36.97
23	1	-			2:37.43
24	1	-			2:37.97
25	1	-			2:39.44
26	4	-	García Borras		2:39.94
27	3	-			2:40.55
28	2	-			2:44.44
29	1	-			2:45.52
	3	-				DNS / DQ

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-			2:20.518	WR
	-			2:21.218
	-			2:23.842
	-			2:24.075
	-			2:25.728
	-			2:26.263
	-			2:26.475
	-			2:26.634

Notes and References

1. October 1973. For the Record. Swimming World Magazine. 73. 14 May 2013.
2. Web site: Official results. FINA.org. 30 August 2019.