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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 27, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 28, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	33
Nations:	24
Win Value:	2:05.55
Gold:	Jiao Liuyang
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Ellen Gandy
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Liu Zige
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 27 with the heats and the semifinals and July 28 with the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige		align=left	2:01.81	Jinan	October 21, 2009
Championship record	Jessicah Schipper		align=left	2:03.41	Rome	July 30, 2009

Results

Heats

33 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5			2:07.34	Q
2	4	6			2:07.60	Q
3	5	6			2:07.91	Q
4	5	5			2:08.14	Q
5	5	4			2:08.28	Q
6	3	5			2:08.34	Q
7	4	2			2:08.43	Q
8	4	4			2:08.47	Q
9	4	3			2:08.62	Q
10	3	3			2:08.63	Q
11	3	4			2:08.67	Q
12	3	6			2:08.88	Q
13	3	7			2:09.01	Q
14	3	2			2:09.12	Q
15	5	7			2:09.33	Q
16	5	1			2:09.38	Q
17	4	1			2:09.41
18	3	8			2:09.68	NR
19	5	3			2:10.48
19	5	2			2:10.48
21	4	8			2:10.69
22	4	7			2:10.83
23	2	6			2:10.84
24	2	4			2:11.37
25	5	8			2:11.82
26	2	3			2:12.44
27	3	1			2:13.65
28	2	2			2:16.09
29	2	5			2:16.63
30	2	7			2:17.72
31	1	4			2:22.03
32	1	3			2:23.68
33	1	5			2:29.16

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:03.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			2:06.73	Q
2	4			2:06.77	Q
3	6			2:06.99	Q
4	3			2:07.94
5	1			2:08.01	NR
6	7			2:08.70
7	2			2:09.27
8	8			2:09.56

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			2:06.30	Q
2	4			2:06.65	Q
3	3			2:06.69	Q
4	2			2:06.93	Q
5	6			2:07.32	Q
6	5			2:07.94
7	8			2:08.81
8	1			2:09.27

Final

The final was held at 18:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1			2:05.55
	6			2:05.59
	3			2:05.90
4	5			2:05.91	NR
5	8			2:06.08
6	2			2:06.35
7	4			2:06.64
7	7			2:06.64

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120417000639/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_120_Heat1_Women_200_Fly.pdf. 2012-04-17.