Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 4, 1973
Competitors	30 from 22 nations
Winning time	2:20.518 WR
Medalists
Andrea Hübner    East Germany   Kornelia Ender    East Germany   Kathy Heddy    United States

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.

Records

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

World record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	2:23.01	East Berlin, East Germany	13 April 1973
Championship record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 September	Heat	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:28.842	CR
4 September	Heat	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:28.306	CR
4 September	Heat	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:24.168	CR
4 September	Final	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:20.518	WR

Results

Heats

30 swimmers participated in 4 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:24.168	Q, CR
2	4	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:25.316	Q
3	3	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	2:26.490	Q
4	3	-	Debbie Cain	Australia	2:26.721	Q
5	2	-	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:28.306	Q, CR
6	4	-	Julie Woodcock	United States	2:28.661	Q
7	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:28.842	Q, CR
8	4	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	2:29.557	Q
9	3	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	2:29.999
10	2	-	Jane Wright	United States	2:30.033
11	1	-	Karin Bormann	West Germany	2:30.190
12	1	-	Anita Zarnowiecki	Sweden	2:30.480
13	2	-	Trine Krogh	Norway	2:31.285
14	4	-	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	2:32.237
15	4	-	N. Cali	Australia	2:32.723
16	4	-	H. Niemann	West Germany	2:32.951
17	2	-	M. Maliutina	Soviet Union	2:32.953
18	1	-	O. Chlupova	Czechoslovakia	2:33.090
19	4	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	2:33.935
20	3	-	J. Efendic	Yugoslavia	2:34.731
21	2	-	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	2:36.427
22	3	-	N. Shio	Japan	2:36.970
23	1	-	Nieves Panadell	Spain	2:37.432
24	1	-	R. Angel	Colombia	2:37.975
25	1	-	E. Avionitu	Greece	2:39.443
26	4	-	B. Garcia	Argentina	2:39.942
27	3	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	2:40.556
28	2	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	2:44.448
29	1	-	M. Hiyouni	Tunisia	2:45.520
–	3	-	G. Verraszto	Hungary		DNS / DQ

Final

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	-	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:20.518	WR
02 !	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:21.218
03 !	-	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:23.842
04 !4	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	2:24.075
05 !5	-	Julie Woodcock	United States	2:25.728
06 !6	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:26.263
07 !7	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	2:26.475
08 !8	-	Debbie Cain	Australia	2:26.634

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