Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 Breaststroke
Competition:	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	28 July (prelims, semifinals) 29 July (final)
Competitors:	42
Nations:	32
Win Value:	2:21.72
Gold:	Leisel Jones
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Anne Poleska
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Mirna Jukić
Bronzenoc:	AUT
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

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The women's 200 breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 28–29 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 28 July, with the Prelims^[1] during the morning session and the Semifinals^[2] during the evening session. The Final^[3] swam in the evening session on 29 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:22.44, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 12 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA
• CR: 2:22.99, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5			2:27.31	q
2	H6 L4			2:27.63	q
3	H5 L3			2:28.06	q
4	H6 L2			2:28.45	q
5	H5 L4			2:28.47	q
6	H6 L5			2:28.75	q
7	H4 L2			2:29.02	q
8	H4 L3			2:29.07	q
9	H5 L7			2:29.80	q
10	H5 L5			2:30.03	q
11	H5 L6			2:30.52	q
12	H6 L7			2:30.59	q
13	H6 L8			2:30.75	q
14	H5 L1			2:30.82	q
15	H6 L6			2:30.93	q
16	H4 L4			2:31.48	q
17	H4 L1			2:32.18
18	H4 L8			2:32.47
19	H5 L8			2:32.48
20	H6 L3			2:32.93
21	H4 L6			2:33.41
22	H3 L4			2:33.80
23	H6 L1			2:33.93
24	H4 L7			2:34.04
25	H3 L6			2:34.89
26	H3 L7			2:34.94
27	H3 L2			2:35.60
28	H3 L8			2:35.75
29	H2 L4			2:35.98
30	H5 L2			2:36.18
31	H2 L1			2:36.72
32	H2 L5			2:38.54
33	H3 L1			2:41.11
34	H2 L7			2:42.71
35	H2 L3			2:43.61
36	H2 L6			2:44.17
37	H2 L2			2:44.22
38	H1 L4			2:44.80
39	H1 L5			2:52.20
40	H1 L3			2:56.09
--	--			DNS
--	--			DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4			2:25.30	q
2	S2 L4			2:26.22	q
3	S2 L3			2:26.85	q
4	S1 L8			2:27.31	q
5	S2 L5			2:27.70	q
6	S1 L5			2:27.96	q
7	S2 L6			2:28.09	q
8	S1 L2			2:28.82	q
9	S1 L3			2:28.87
10	S2 L2			2:28.90
11	S2 L8			2:29.56
12	S2 L7			2:29.68
13	S1 L6			2:30.23
14	S1 L7			2:30.29
15	S1 L1			2:30.33
16	S2 L1			2:31.18

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			2:21.72	WR
2			2:25.84
3			2:27.11
4			2:27.65
5			2:27.85
6			2:28.60
6			2:28.60
8			2:29.44

References

Notes and References

1. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Prelims results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05.
2. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05.
3. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05.