Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates8 August 2016 (heats &
semifinals)
9 August 2016 (final)
Competitors40 from 27 nations
Winning time2:06.58 OR
Medalists
   Hungary
   Great Britain
   United States
Swimming at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 8–9 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]

Another medley double happened for the sixth straight time, as Hungary's Katinka Hosszú pulled away from a more fearsome field to collect her third individual Olympic gold at these Games. Leading from the start, she threw down a gold-medal time in 2:06.58 to establish a new Olympic record, and to hold off Great Britain's Siobhan-Marie O'Connor by three tenths of a second.[2][3] Unable to catch the Hungarian towards a sprint finish, O'Connor produced a new British record of 2:06.88 to take home the silver.[4][5] Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Maya DiRado added a bronze to her runner-up prize from the 400 m individual medley three days earlier with a time of 2:08.79, edging out her teammate Melanie Margalis (2:09.21) to fourth by almost half a second.[6][7]

Australia's Alicia Coutts, silver medalist from London 2012, culminated her Olympic career with a fifth-place time in 2:10.88, and was shortly followed in sixth by Canadian swimmer Sydney Pickrem (2:11.22).[8] Russia's Viktoriya Andreeva (2:12.28), and defending gold medalist Ye Shiwen of China (2:13.56) closed out the field.[7]

Hosszú also posted an Olympic record in 2:07.45 to lead all swimmers on the morning prelims, clipping 0.12 seconds off the mark set by Ye Shiwen in London four years earlier.[9][10]

Records

Before this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Katinka Hosszú (HUN) 2:06.12 Kazan, Russia 3 August 2015
Olympic record  Ye Shiwen (CHN) 2:07.57 London, United kingdom 31 July 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nation Time Record
8 August Heat 5 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:07.45 OR
9 August Final Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:06.58 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 4 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:07.45 Q, OR
2 4 4 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  Great Britain 2:08.44 Q
3 4 3 Melanie Margalis  United States 2:09.62 Q
4 3 4 Maya DiRado  United States 2:10.24 Q
5 4 5 Miho Teramura  Japan 2:10.34 Q
6 3 5 Alicia Coutts  Australia 2:10.52 Q
7 3 6 Ye Shiwen  China 2:10.56 Q
8 5 3 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:11.06 Q
9 5 6 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 2:11.69 Q
10 2 2 Kim Seo-yeong  South Korea 2:11.75 Q
11 5 7 Runa Imai  Japan 2:11.78 Q
12 3 3 Hannah Miley  Great Britain 2:11.84 Q
13 5 2 Alexandra Wenk  Germany 2:12.46 Q
14 4 1 Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson  Canada 2:12.56 Q
15 4 2 Mireia Belmonte Garcia  Spain 2:12.58 Q
16 5 5 Viktoriya Andreeva  Russia 2:13.01 Q
17 4 6 Kotuku Ngawati  Australia 2:13.05
18 5 1 Joanna Maranhão  Brazil 2:13.06
19 2 4 Maria Ugolkova  Switzerland 2:13.77
20 2 8 Stina Gardell  Sweden 2:14.41
21 3 2 Barbora Závadová  Czech Republic 2:14.45
22 2 3 Luisa Trombetti  Italy 2:14:66
23 4 7 Zhou Min  China 2:14.81
24 2 7 África Zamorano  Spain 2:14.87
25 1 2 Tanja Kylliäinen  Finland 2:14.97
26 4 8 Lisa Zaiser  Austria 2:15.23
27 1 8 Anja Crevar  Serbia 2:15.33
28 5 8 Sara Franceschi  Italy 2:15.61
29 2 5 Louise Hansson  Sweden 2:15.66
30 1 5 Fantine Lesaffre  France 2:15.71
3 8 Lena Kreundl  Austria
32 1 4 Nam Yoo-sun  South Korea 2:16.11
33 3 7 Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên  Vietnam 2:16.20
34 1 3 Marrit Steenbergen  Netherlands 2:16.59
35 1 1 Victoria Kaminskaya  Portugal 2:16.78
36 1 6 Simona Baumrtová  Czech Republic 2:17.21
37 2 1 Virginia Bardach  Argentina 2:17.94
38 3 1 Ranohon Amanova  Uzbekistan 2:18.97
39 1 7 Katarzyna Baranowska  Poland 2:19.03
40 2 6 Siobhan Haughey  Hong Kong DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  Great Britain 2:07.57 Q, NR
2 3 5 Maya DiRado  United States 2:08.91 Q
3 3 3 Alicia Coutts  Australia 2:10.35 Q
4 5 6 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:10.57 Q
5 5 8 Viktoriya Andreeva  Russia 2:10.87 Q
6 2 2 Kim Seo-yeong  South Korea 2:12.15
3 7 Hannah Miley  Great Britain
8 4 1 Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson  Canada 2:12.25

Semifinal 2

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 4 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:08.13 Q
2 3 6 Ye Shiwen  China 2:09.33 Q
3 4 5 Melanie Margalis  United States 2:10.10 Q
4 4 3 Miho Teramura  Japan 2:11.03
5 5 2 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 2:12.05
6 5 1 Alexandra Wenk  Germany 2:12.13
7 2 7 Runa Imai  Japan 2:12.53
8 4 8 Mireia Belmonte García  Spain 2:13.33

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 5 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:06.58 OR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 4 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  Great Britain 2:06.88 NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3 Maya DiRado  United States 2:08.79
4 2 Melanie Margalis  United States 2:09.21
5 7 Alicia Coutts  Australia 2:10.88
6 1 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:11.22
7 8 Viktoriya Andreeva  Russia 2:12.28
8 6 Ye Shiwen  China 2:13.56

References

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