Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date September 18, 2000 (heats &
semifinals)
September 19, 2000 (final)
Competitors 36 from 28 nations
Winning time 2:10.68 OR
Medalists
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1st Yana Klochkova  Ukraine
2nd Beatrice Căslaru  Romania
3rd Cristina Teuscher  United States
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Swimming events at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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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

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 18–19 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.[1]

Yana Klochkova, Ukraine's swimming pride and three-time European champion, became the fourth swimmer in Olympic history to strike a medley double, since Claudia Kolb did so in 1968, Tracy Caulkins in 1984, and Michelle Smith in 1996. Leading from start to finish, she established a sterling time of 2:10.68 to cut off Lin Li's eight-year Olympic record by a comfortable margin of 0.95 seconds.[2][3] Romania's Beatrice Căslaru, who shared the European title with Klochkova in the event, raced to silver with a national record of 2:12.57 on the rear of a dominant breaststroke leg. Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Cristina Teuscher took home the bronze in 2:13.32 to touch out Canada's Marianne Limpert (2:13.44) by 12-hundredths of a second.[4][5][6]

Limpert was followed in fifth by her teammate Joanne Malar (2:13.70) and in sixth by Russia's Oxana Verevka (2:13.88). Previously competed for Brazil in Atlanta four years earlier, Gabrielle Rose finished seventh in 2:14.82, while Japan's Tomoko Hagiwara rounded out the field with an eighth-place time of 2:15.64.[6]

Notable swimmers missed out the top 8 final, featuring China's Chen Yan, who recorded the second fastest time ever in the event's history but faded badly to place ninth (2:15.27); and Australia's home favorite Elli Overton, who finished her semifinal run with an eleventh-place effort (2:15.74).[7]

Records

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

World record  Wu Yanyan (CHN) 2:09.72 Shanghai, China 17 October 1997 [8]
Olympic record  Lin Li (CHN) 2:11.65 Barcelona, Spain 30 July 1992 [8]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
19 September Final Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 2:10.68 OR

Results

Heats

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Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 7 Oxana Verevka  Russia 2:13.48 Q, NR
2 4 4 Beatrice Căslaru  Romania 2:13.72 Q
3 5 4 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 2:13.83 Q
4 4 5 Joanne Malar  Canada 2:13.92 Q
5 5 5 Cristina Teuscher  United States 2:14.17 Q
6 4 3 Marianne Limpert  Canada 2:15.07 Q
7 3 4 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:15.16 Q
8 3 6 Gabrielle Rose  United States 2:15.55 Q
9 5 2 Chen Yan  China 2:16.01 Q
10 5 1 Federica Biscia  Italy 2:16.09 Q, NR
11 4 6 Sue Rolph  Great Britain 2:16.43 Q
12 4 8 Yseult Gervy  Belgium 2:16.51 Q
13 4 2 Zhan Shu  China 2:16.63 Q
14 5 3 Elli Overton  Australia 2:16.76 Q
15 3 3 Nicole Hetzer  Germany 2:16.98 Q
16 5 6 Sabine Herbst  Germany 2:17.18 Q
17 2 3 Hana Černá  Czech Republic 2:17.58 NR
18 3 8 Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe 2:17.73 AF
19 2 5 Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia 2:18.33 NR
20 3 1 Helen Norfolk  New Zealand 2:18.90
21 5 8 Vered Borochovski  Israel 2:18.99
22 2 4 Carolyn Adel  Suriname 2:19.17
23 4 1 Joscelin Yeo  Singapore 2:19.18
24 5 7 Kathryn Evans  Great Britain 2:19.41
25 4 7 Anna Windsor  Australia 2:19.44
26 3 2 Yasuko Tajima  Japan 2:21.65
27 2 2 Nam Yoo-sun 23x15px South Korea 2:22.53
28 1 3 Marina Mulyayeva  Kazakhstan 2:22.72
29 2 1 María Virginia Garrone  Argentina 2:22.98
30 2 6 Aikaterini Sarakatsani  Greece 2:23.05
31 2 8 Sia Wai Yen  Malaysia 2:23.31
32 1 5 Alexandra Zertsalova  Kyrgyzstan 2:24.09
33 2 7 Smiljana Marinović  Croatia 2:25.24
34 3 5 Diana Mocanu  Romania 2:29.58
35 1 4 Meritxell Sabate  Andorra 2:30.41
36 1 6 Fernanda Cuadra  Nicaragua 2:38.25

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Beatrice Căslaru  Romania 2:13.31 Q
2 5 Joanne Malar  Canada 2:13.59 Q
3 3 Marianne Limpert  Canada 2:13.90 Q
4 6 Gabrielle Rose  United States 2:14.40 Q
5 2 Federica Biscia  Italy 2:15.71 NR
6 1 Elli Overton  Australia 2:15.74
7 7 Yseult Gervy  Belgium 2:17.19
8 8 Sabine Herbst  Germany 2:17.51

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 2:13.08 Q
2 3 Cristina Teuscher  United States 2:13.47 Q
3 4 Oxana Verevka  Russia 2:14.04 Q
4 6 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:15.09 Q
5 2 Chen Yan  China 2:15.27
6 7 Sue Rolph  Great Britain 2:15.98
7 1 Zhan Shu  China 2:16.58
8 8 Nicole Hetzer  Germany 2:18.08

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 4 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 2:10.68 OR*
2nd 5 Beatrice Căslaru  Romania 2:12.57 NR
3rd 3 Cristina Teuscher  United States 2:13.32
4 2 Marianne Limpert  Canada 2:13.44
5 6 Joanne Malar  Canada 2:13.70
6 7 Oxana Verevka  Russia 2:13.88
7 1 Gabrielle Rose  United States 2:14.82
8 8 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:15.64

* Also a European and a Ukrainian record.

References

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