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
DateSeptember 18, 2000 (heats &
semifinals)
September 19, 2000 (final)
Competitors36 from 28 nations
Winning time2:10.68 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Silver medal icon.svg Beatrice Câșlaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Bronze medal icon.svg Cristina Teuscher Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  1996
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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]

Records

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

World recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wu Yanyan  (CHN)2:09.72 Shanghai, China 17 October 1997 [8]
Olympic recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lin Li  (CHN)2:11.65 Barcelona, Spain 30 July 1992 [8]

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
19 SeptemberFinal Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:10.68 OR

Results

Heats

[8]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
137 Oxana Verevka Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:13.48Q, NR
244 Beatrice Câșlaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:13.72Q
354 Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:13.83Q
445 Joanne Malar Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:13.92Q
555 Cristina Teuscher Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:14.17Q
643 Marianne Limpert Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:15.07Q
734 Tomoko Hagiwara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:15.16Q
836 Gabrielle Rose Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:15.55Q
952 Chen Yan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:16.01Q
1051 Federica Biscia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:16.09Q, NR
1146 Sue Rolph Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:16.43Q
1248 Yseult Gervy Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2:16.51Q
1342 Zhan Shu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:16.63Q
1453 Elli Overton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:16.76Q
1533 Nicole Hetzer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:16.98Q
1656 Sabine Herbst Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:17.18Q
1723 Hana Černá Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:17.58 NR
1838 Kirsty Coventry Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 2:17.73 AF
1925 Alenka Kejžar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 2:18.33 NR
2031 Helen Norfolk Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:18.90
2158 Vered Borochovski Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:18.99
2224 Carolyn Adel Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname 2:19.17
2341 Joscelin Yeo Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:19.18
2457 Kathryn Evans Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:19.41
2547 Anna Windsor Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:19.44
2632 Yasuko Tajima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:21.65
2722 Nam Yoo-sun Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 2:22.53
2813 Marina Mulyayeva Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 2:22.72
2921 María Virginia Garrone Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 2:22.98
3026 Aikaterini Sarakatsani Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:23.05
3128 Sia Wai Yen Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 2:23.31
3215 Alexandra Zertsalova Flag of Kyrgyzstan (1992-2023).svg  Kyrgyzstan 2:24.09
3327 Smiljana Marinović Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2:25.24
3435 Diana Mocanu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:29.58
3514 Meritxell Sabate Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 2:30.41
3616 Fernanda Cuadra Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 2:38.25

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Beatrice Câșlaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:13.31Q
25 Joanne Malar Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:13.59Q
33 Marianne Limpert Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:13.90Q
46 Gabrielle Rose Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:14.40Q
52 Federica Biscia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:15.71 NR
61 Elli Overton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:15.74
77 Yseult Gervy Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2:17.19
88 Sabine Herbst Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:17.51

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:13.08Q
23 Cristina Teuscher Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:13.47Q
34 Oxana Verevka Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:14.04Q
46 Tomoko Hagiwara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:15.09Q
52 Chen Yan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:15.27
67 Sue Rolph Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:15.98
71 Zhan Shu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:16.58
88 Nicole Hetzer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:18.08

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:10.68 OR *
Silver medal icon.svg5 Beatrice Câșlaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:12.57 NR
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Cristina Teuscher Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:13.32
42 Marianne Limpert Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:13.44
56 Joanne Malar Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:13.70
67 Oxana Verevka Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:13.88
71 Gabrielle Rose Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:14.82
88 Tomoko Hagiwara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:15.64

* Also a European and a Ukrainian record.

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