Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	25 July 2001 (heats, semifinals); 26 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	33
Winning time	2:09.94
Medalists
	← 1998 2003 →

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place on 25 July, with the final^[3] being held on 26 July.

Records edit

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

World record	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	2:06.62	Athens, Greece	25 August 1991
Championship record	He Cihong (CHN)	2:07.40	Rome, Italy	11 September 1994

Results edit

Heats edit

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:11.04	Q
2	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.16	Q
3	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:11.54	Q
4	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:12.31	Q
5	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:12.67	Q
6	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:12.88	Q
7	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:13.19	Q
8	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:13.31	Q
9	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:13.84	Q
10	Elizabeth Wycliffe	Canada	2:14.97	Q
11	Anu Koivisto	Finland	2:15.01	Q
12	Katy Sexton	United Kingdom	2:15.04	Q
13	Zhan Shu	China	2:15.08	Q
14	Jessica Aveyard	United States	2:15.22	Q
15	Valentina Brat	Romania	2:15.32	Q
16	Jamie Reid	United States	2:15.38	Q
17	Kelly Tucker	Australia	2:15.55
18	Helen Nolfolk	New Zealand	2:15.56
19	Alenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:16.31
20	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:17.48
21	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	2:17.63
22	Ania Gustomelski	Israel	2:18.36
23	Elena Efimenko	Uzbekistan	2:23.90
24	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	2:25.31
25	Wai Yen Sia	Malaysia	2:26.16
26	Kuan Chia-Hsien	Chinese Taipei	2:26.89
27	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:29.57
28	Khadisa Ciss	Senegal	2:30.57
29	María Costanzo	Paraguay	2:33.35
30	Shun Kwan Andrea Chum	Macau	2:36.02
31	Denyse Tan	Singapore	2:43.89
32	Yelena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	2:48.73
–	Perla Martinez	Honduras	DSQ
–	Ivana Gabrilo	Switzerland	DNS

Semifinals edit

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:10.59	Q
2	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.61	Q
3	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:11.65	Q
4	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:11.69	Q
5	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:12.05	Q
6	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:12.11	Q
7	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:12.47	Q
8	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:12.78	Q
9	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:13.42
10	Katy Sexton	United Kingdom	2:14.37
11	Jamie Reid	United States	2:14.57
12	Jessica Aveyard	United States	2:14.67
13	Zhan Shu	China	2:15.31
14	Elizabeth Wycliffe	Canada	2:15.38
15	Anu Koivisto	Finland	2:15.64
16	Valentina Brat	Romania	2:17.02

Final edit

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:09.94
	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:10.43
	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.05
4	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:11.16
5	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:11.47
6	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:11.58
7	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:11.68
8	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:14.12

References edit

^ "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Semifinals Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 5 December 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[1] "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[2] "Semifinals Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 5 December 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[3] "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

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