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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	22 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 23 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	30
Win Value:	2 minutes 6.73 seconds
Gold:	Petria Thomas
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Annika Mehlhorn
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Kaitlin Sandeno
Bronzenoc:	USA
Previous:	1998
Next:	2003

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

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 23 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 22 July, with the final^[3] being held on 23 July.

Records

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

World record		2:05.81	Sydney, Australia	align=right	17 May 2000
Championship record		2:07.25	Rome, Italy	align=right	11 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:07.91	Q
2	2:08.37	Q
3	2:10.75	Q
4	2:10.87	Q
5	2:11.07	Q
6	2:11.15	Q
7	2:11.27	Q
8	2:11.45	Q
9	2:11.61	Q
10	2:11.76	Q
11	2:11.87	Q
12	2:12.03	Q
13	2:12.25	Q
14	2:12.35	Q
15	2:12.94	Q
16	2:13.65	Q
17	2:14.24
18	2:14.69
19	2:15.73
20	2:18.24
21	2:19.27
22	2:19.33
23	2:19.81
24	2:19.90
25	2:24.77
26	2:25.48
27	2:29.41
–	DSQ
–	DSQ
–	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:08.95	Q
2	2:09.20	Q
3	2:09.79	Q
4	2:09.91	Q
5	2:09.97	Q
6	2:10.43	Q
7	2:10.62	Q
8	2:10.65	Q
9	2:11.03
10	2:11.07
11	2:11.68
12	2:12.09
13	2:12.58
14	2:13.05
15	2:13.10
16	2:13.29

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	2:06.73	CR
	2:06.97
	2:08.52
4	2:09.08
5	2:09.57
6	2:10.11
7	2:10.42
8	2:11.09

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024105227/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay1.html#200mFlyW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024110932/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay1FINAL.html#200mFlyW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019220929/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW200fly.html . 19 October 2004 .