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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	33
Winning time	2 minutes 24.90 seconds
Medalists
Ágnes Kovács    Hungary   Qi Hui    China   Luo Xuejuan    China
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Main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 25 July. The heats ^[1] and semifinals ^[2] took place 24 July, with the final ^[3] being held on 25 July.

Records

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

World record	Qi Hui  (CHN)	2:22.99	Hangzhou, China	13 April 2001
Championship record	Ágnes Kovács  (HUN)	2:25.45	Perth, Australia	15 January 1998

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 July	Semifinal 1	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:25.00	CR
25 July	Final	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:24.90	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kristy Kowal	United States	2:27.40	Q
2	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:28.53	Q
3	Yuko Sakaguchi	Japan	2:28.85	Q
4	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:29.04	Q
5	Olga Bakaldina	Russia	2:29.72	Q
6	Sarah Poewe	South Africa	2:29.85	Q
7	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:30.26	Q
8	Elvira Fischer	Austria	2:30.31	Q
9	Simone Weiler	Germany	2:30.35	Q
10	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:30.48	Q
11	Christin Petelski	Canada	2:31.01	Q
11	Qi Hui	China	2:31.01	Q
13	Luo Xuejuan	China	2:31.14	Q
13	Jaime King	United Kingdom	2:31.14	Q
15	Brooke Hanson	Australia	2:31.25	Q
16	Megan Quann	United States	2:31.38	Q
17	Junko Isoda	Japan	2:31.39
18	İlkay Dikmen	Turkey	2:33.29
19	Natalia Hissamutdinova	Estonia	2:34.66
20	Ku Hyo-Jin	South Korea	2:35.12
21	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	2:35.18
22	Anne-Mari Gulbrandsen	Norway	2:36.23
23	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	2:38.07
24	Agata Czaplicki	Switzerland	2:40.37
25	Chen Yi-Fan	Chinese Taipei	2:44.97
26	Shun Kwan Andrea Chum	Macau	2:46.38
27	Anastasiya Korolyova	Uzbekistan	2:46.62
28	Beatriz Cordon Towsend	Guatemala	2:47.50
29	Rebecca Heng	Singapore	2:48.20
30	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	2:51.52
31	Weng Lam Cheong	Macau	2:51.55
32	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:54.61
–	Nicolette Teo	Singapore	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:25.00	Q, CR
2	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:25.83	Q
3	Luo Xuejuan	China	2:26.03	Q
4	Kristy Kowal	United States	2:26.25	Q
5	Olga Bakaldina	Russia	2:26.63	Q
6	Qi Hui	China	2:27.24	Q
7	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:28.11	Q
8	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:28.41	Q
9	Yuko Sakaguchi	Japan	2:28.50
10	Elvira Fischer	Austria	2:28.71
11	Sarah Poewe	South Africa	2:28.76
12	Megan Quann	United States	2:29.25
13	Brooke Hanson	Australia	2:29.40
14	Simone Weiler	Germany	2:31.13
15	Christin Petelski	Canada	2:31.73
16	Jaime King	United Kingdom	2:34.67

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:24.90	CR
	Qi Hui	China	2:25.09
	Luo Xuejuan	China	2:25.29
4	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:25.46
5	Kristy Kowal	United States	2:25.84
6	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:25.92
7	Olga Bakaldina	Russia	2:26.83
8	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:27.96

References

1. "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
2. "Semifinals Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
3. "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.