Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 24, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 25, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	38
Nations:	30
Win Value:	2:08.90
Gold:	Ye Shiwen
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Alicia Coutts
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Ariana Kukors
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place July 24 and the final was held July 25.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	3	2:11.01	Q
2	3	5	2:11.38	Q
3	3	4	2:11.53	Q
4	5	4	2:11.63	Q
5	4	4	2:11.64	Q
6	4	5	2:11.84	Q
7	3	3	2:11.95	Q
8	5	3	2:12.68	Q
9	3	2	2:13.00	Q
10	3	6	2:13.16	Q
11	5	2	2:13.32	Q
12	5	5	2:13.33	Q
13	5	6	2:13.71	Q
14	4	8	2:14.08	Q
15	4	7	2:14.30	Q
16	3	1	2:14.97	Q
17	4	2	2:14.98
18	5	8	2:15.15
19	5	1	2:15.45
20	5	7	2:15.56
21	2	4	2:16.17
22	2	2	2:16.75
23	4	1	2:16.87
24	3	8	2:17.09
25	2	3	2:17.45
26	2	8	2:18.20	NR
27	3	7	2:18.69
28	2	1	2:19.74
29	2	6	2:19.94
30	2	5	2:20.20
31	1	4	2:20.38
32	2	7	2:21.86
33	1	5	2:22.39	NR
34	1	6	2:27.59
35	1	3	2:27.93
36	1	7	2:30.02
37	1	2	2:31.97
	4	6	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:24.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	2:09.65	Q
2	3	2:09.83	Q
3	5	2:10.08	Q
4	2	2:11.76	Q
5	4	2:12.37
6	7	2:12.51
7	8	2:13.68	NR
8	1	2:14.03

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	2:10.65	Q
2	6	2:10.95	Q
3	5	2:11.15	Q
4	5	2:11.71	Q
5	7	2:12.21
6	1	2:12.67
7	8	2:13.26
8	2	2:15.90

Final

The final was held 19:17.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time
	3	2:08.90
	6	2:09.00
	5	2:09.12
4	4	2:09.65
5	7	2:10.40
6	1	2:11.24
7	2	2:11.36
8	8	2:16.18

External links

2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre individual medley entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-24. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120331094315/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C74A_Results%20(Summary%20-%20Individual)_3_Women_200_Medley.pdf. 2012-03-31.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-24.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120417115146/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_103_Heat1_Women_200_Medley.pdf. 2012-04-17.