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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 7, 1973
Competitors	25 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:40.012 CR
Medalists
	1975 →

The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records

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

World record	Yuliya Bogdanova (URS)	2:38.32	Leningrad, Soviet Union	7 April 1971
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 September	Heat	Renate Vogel	East Germany	2:44.052	CR
7 September	Heat	Hannelore Anke	East Germany	2:41.846	CR
7 September	Final	Renate Vogel	East Germany	2:40.012	CR

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Hannelore Anke	East Germany	2:41.846	Q, CR
2	4	-	Lynn Colella	United States	2:42.434	Q
3	1	-	Renate Vogel	East Germany	2:44.052	Q, CR
4	3	-	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	2:44.235	Q
5	4	-	Lyudmila Porubayko	Soviet Union	2:44.456	Q
6	2	-	Petra Nows	West Germany	2:45.653	Q
7	2	-	Éva Kiss	Hungary	2:45.970	Q
8	2	-	Alie te Riet	Netherlands	2:46.076	Q
9	3	-	Beverley Whitfield	Australia	2:46.960
10	1	-	Vicki Hays	United States	2:47.136
11	4	-	M. Iwashita	Japan	2:48.591
12	1	-	Judith Hudson	Australia	2:49.660
13	4	-	Marian Stuart	Canada	2:50.012
14	3	-	O. Luskatova	Soviet Union	2:50.336
15	3	-	Olga Chlupova	Czechoslovakia	2:50.949
16	1	-	Cristina Bassani	Brazil	2:52.074
17	2	-	Jane Lowe	New Zealand	2:52.601
18	1	-	Sandra Seath	Canada	2:53.025
19	1	-	S. Mendonça	Brazil	2:54.310
20	4	-	V. Petkovic	Yugoslavia	2:55.108
21	4	-	Paola Morozzi	Italy	2:55.149
22	3	-	Nieves Panadell	Spain	2:56.290
23	2	-	U. El Shenawi	Egypt	2:57.621
24	2	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	2:58.361
25	3	-	E. Aktulga	Turkey	3:08.140

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Renate Vogel	East Germany	2:40.012	CR
	4	Hannelore Anke	East Germany	2:40.495
	5	Lynn Colella	United States	2:41.710
4	2	Lyudmila Porubayko	Soviet Union	2:42.218
5	6	Britt-Marie Smedh	Sweden	2:43.160
6	7	Petra Nows	West Germany	2:44.698
7	8	Alie te Riet	Netherlands	2:44.893
8	1	Éva Kiss	Hungary	2:45.509

^ "For the Record" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 2 June 2013.