Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	33
Win Value:	2 minutes 24.90 seconds
Gold:	Ágnes Kovács
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Qi Hui
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Luo Xuejuan
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Previous:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 25 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 24 July, with the final^[3] being held on 25 July.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record		2:22.99	Hangzhou, China	align=right	13 April 2001
Championship record		2:25.45	Perth, Australia	align=right	15 January 1998

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 July	Semifinal 1			2:25.00	CR
25 July	Final			2:24.90	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:27.40	Q
2	2:28.53	Q
3	2:28.85	Q
4	2:29.04	Q
5	2:29.72	Q
6	2:29.85	Q
7	2:30.26	Q
8	2:30.31	Q
9	2:30.35	Q
10	2:30.48	Q
11	2:31.01	Q
11	2:31.01	Q
13	2:31.14	Q
13	2:31.14	Q
15	2:31.25	Q
16	2:31.38	Q
17	2:31.39
18	2:33.29
19	2:34.66
20	2:35.12
21	2:35.18
22	2:36.23
23	2:38.07
24	2:40.37
25	2:44.97
26	2:46.38
27	2:46.62
28	2:47.50
29	2:48.20
30	2:51.52
31	2:51.55
32	2:54.61
–	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:25.00	Q, CR
2	2:25.83	Q
3	2:26.03	Q
4	2:26.25	Q
5	2:26.63	Q
6	2:27.24	Q
7	2:28.11	Q
8	2:28.41	Q
9	2:28.50
10	2:28.71
11	2:28.76
12	2:29.25
13	2:29.40
14	2:31.13
15	2:31.73
16	2:34.67

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	2:24.90	CR
	2:25.09
	2:25.29
4	2:25.46
5	2:25.84
6	2:25.92
7	2:26.83
8	2:27.96

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024114558/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay3.html#200BreastW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024120050/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay3FINAL.html#200BreastW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019220141/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW200breast.html . 19 October 2004 .