Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	July 31, 2013 (heats & semifinals) August 1, 2013 (final)
Competitors	26 from 21 nations
Winning time	2:04.59
Medalists
Liu Zige    China   Mireia Belmonte    Spain   Katinka Hosszú    Hungary

The women's 200 metre butterfly event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 July and 1 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1][2]

Records

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

World record	Liu Zige (CHN)	2:01.81	Jinan, China	21 October 2009	[3][4]
Championship record	Jessicah Schipper (AUS)	2:03.41	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	[5]

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:38.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:07.21	Q
2	2	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.51	Q
3	1	4	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:07.59	Q
4	3	3	Liu Zige	China	2:07.63	Q
5	3	4	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:07.79	Q
6	3	5	Cammile Adams	United States	2:07.83	Q
7	1	5	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:07.87	Q
8	1	6	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:08.50	Q
9	3	2	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.51	Q
10	1	3	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:09.13	Q
11	3	6	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:09.48	Q
12	2	5	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	2:10.21	Q
13	2	2	Madeline Dirado	United States	2:10.25	Q
14	2	6	Katerine Savard	Canada	2:10.72	Q
15	1	7	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:10.74	Q
16	3	7	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:11.14	Q
17	1	1	Samantha Lee	New Zealand	2:11.95
18	2	1	Rita Medrano	Mexico	2:12.41
19	1	2	An Se-Hyeon	South Korea	2:13.26
20	3	1	Yana Martynova	Russia	2:13.99
21	3	8	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:14.10
22	2	8	Monalisa Lorenza	Indonesia	2:18.24
23	1	8	Julimar Avila	Honduras	2:19.56
24	3	0	Maria Far Nunez	Panama	2:22.37
25	1	0	Pooja Alva	India	2:31.76
26	2	0	Amboratiana Domoinannava	Madagascar	2:40.51
27	2	7	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	99.99	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:55.^[7]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Cammile Adams	United States	2:06.75	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:06.85	Q
3	5	Liu Zige	China	2:07.18	Q
4	2	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:07.91
5	6	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:08.09
6	7	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	2:08.53
7	1	Katerine Savard	Canada	2:10.42
8	8	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:14.07

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:06.53	Q
2	5	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:07.18	Q
3	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:07.31	Q
4	3	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:07.70	Q
5	7	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:07.86	Q
6	2	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:07.87
7	1	Madeline Dirado	United States	2:08.28
8	8	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:10.11	NR

Final

The final was held at 18:46.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	6	Liu Zige	China	2:04.59
02 !	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:04.78
03 !	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:05.59
4	2	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:06.09
5	7	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:06.58
6	1	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:06.65
7	5	Cammile Adams	United States	2:07.73
8	8	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:08.40

References

External links

• Barcelona 2013 Swimming Coverage