Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

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The first heats of the Women's 200m Individual Medley took place on the morning of Sunday, July 26.^[1] The semifinal took place in the evening session of the same day and the final took place on the evening of the 27 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley was: Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle

Records

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

World record		2:08.45	Beijing, China	align=right	13 August 2008
Championship record		2:10.13	Melbourne, Australia	align=right	26 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Time	Record
26 July	Heat 7	2:08.53	CR
26 July	Semifinal 2	2:07.03	WR
27 July	Final	2:06.15	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	2:08.53	7	3	CR, AM
2	2:09.12	8	3	ER
3	2:09.64	8	4
4	2:09.90	7	4
5	2:10.24	7	5
6	2:10.53	6	3	NR
7	2:10.94	6	4
8	2:11.31	7	2
9	2:11.35	8	5
10	2:11.61	6	5
11	2:11.91	6	6
12	2:12.18	6	8	SA
13	2:12.52	7	6
14	2:12.66	8	1
15	2:12.80	7	0	NR
16	2:13.47	8	2
17	2:13.52	7	9	NR
18	2:13.61	6	1
19	2:13.64	5	6	NR
20	2:13.70	7	1
20	2:13.70	8	8
22	2:13.75	7	7
22	2:13.75	8	7
24	2:14.17	6	2
25	2:14.40	6	7
26	2:14.53	8	0	NR
27	2:14.61	6	0
28	2:14.62	6	9
29	2:15.53	8	6
30	2:15.65	5	7	NR
31	2:15.66	7	8
32	2:15.88	4	4	NR
33	2:16.52	5	4
34	2:16.89	5	5
35	2:16.96	8	9
36	2:17.02	5	2
37	2:17.06	5	3
38	2:17.23	4	2
39	2:17.65	5	8
40	2:17.79	4	8
41	2:17.86	5	1
42	2:17.89	4	3
43	2:19.38	4	6
44	2:19.46	4	7	NR
45	2:19.55	4	5
46	2:19.87	5	0
47	2:20.24	5	9
48	2:20.71	4	0
49	2:23.54	3	1	NR
50	2:24.35	3	2	NR
51	2:24.45	3	5
52	2:25.37	3	4
53	2:25.45	2	7
54	2:25.77	3	3
55	2:26.33	4	1
56	2:26.45	3	8
57	2:26.56	2	5
58	2:27.94	2	4
59	2:28.94	3	0
60	2:29.02	3	7
61	2:29.45	4	9
62	2:29.55	3	9
63	2:31.58	2	8
64	2:31.67	2	6
65	2:31.94	2	3
66	2:33.47	1	4
67	2:36.35	3	6
68	2:37.65	2	1
69	2:43.74	1	5
70	2:45.32	2	0
71	2:46.82	2	9
72	2:48.26	1	3
73	3:07.54	1	6
–	DNS	1	2
–	DNS	2	2

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	2:07.03	2	4	WR
2	2:08.68	2	5
3	2:09.46	2	3	NR
4	2:09.87	1	3	NR
5	2:09.91	1	5
5	2:09.91	1	2
7	2:10.01	1	4
8	2:10.08	2	2
9	2:10.29	2	6
10	2:11.05	2	7
11	2:11.73	2	8	NR
12	2:12.12	1	7	SA
13	2:12.34	2	1
14	2:12.75	1	8
15	2:12.88	1	6
16	2:13.36	1	1

Finals

Rank	Time	Lane	Notes
	2:06.15	4	WR
	2:07.03	5	OC
	2:07.46	1	ER
4	2:08.94	2
5	2:09.73	6	NR
6	2:09.91	3
7	2:09.98	7
8	2:10.85	8

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Archived copy . 2009-08-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090806182809/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2009/Roma2009/C74A_ResSummary_3_Heats_Women_200_Medley.pdf . 2009-08-06 . Preliminary Results