Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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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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Swimming 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 Câșlaru, 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]
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 |
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19 September | Final | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:10.68 | OR |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Beatrice Câșlaru | 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 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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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 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:10.68 | OR * | |
5 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:12.57 | NR | |
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.
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