Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
DatesJune 21, 2013
Competitors12 from 8 nations
Winning time2:14.40
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey. [1]

Contents

The race consisted of four lengths of the pool in four different styles.

Records

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

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Ariana Kukors  (USA)2:06.15 Rome, Italy July 27, 2009
Mediterranean Games record Flag of France.svg  Camille Muffat  (FRA)2:10.36 Pescara, Italy June 27, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

[2] [3]

RankHeatLaneAthleteTimeNotes
114Flag of Slovenia.svg  Anja Klinar  (SLO)2:17.70Q
223Flag of Spain.svg  Catalina Corro  (ESP)2:18.72Q
324Flag of Italy.svg  Stefania Pirozzi  (ITA)2:18.93Q
425Flag of Italy.svg  Carlotta Toni  (ITA)2:19.06Q
415Flag of France.svg  Fantine Lesaffre  (FRA)2:19.06Q
626Flag of Tunisia.svg  Sarra Lajnef  (TUN)2:19.73Q
716Flag of Turkey.svg  Gizem Bozkurt  (TUR)2:21.03Q
822Flag of Greece.svg  Konstantina Papailia  (GRE)2:21.34Q
927Flag of Turkey.svg  Melisa Akarsu  (TUR)2:21.40
1017Flag of Algeria.svg  Souad Cherouati  (ALG)2:23.66
1113Flag of Slovenia.svg  Tanja Šmid  (SLO)2:25.69
12Flag of Greece.svg  Afroditi Giareni  (GRE)DNS

Final

[4]

RankLaneAthleteTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4Flag of Slovenia.svg  Anja Klinar  (SLO)2:14.40
Silver medal icon.svg3Flag of Italy.svg  Stefania Pirozzi  (ITA)2:16.12
Bronze medal icon.svg6Flag of Italy.svg  Carlotta Toni  (ITA)2:16.24
41Flag of Turkey.svg  Gizem Bozkurt  (TUR)2:17.08
52Flag of France.svg  Fantine Lesaffre  (FRA)2:17.27
65Flag of Spain.svg  Catalina Corro  (ESP)2:17.68
78Flag of Greece.svg  Konstantina Papailia  (GRE)2:20.12
87Flag of Tunisia.svg  Sarra Lajnef  (TUN)2:20.70

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References

  1. "Sessions". Mersin 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. Swimming - Women's 200m I. M. Heat 1 (Result) Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today
  3. Swimming - Women's 200m I. M. Heat 2 (Result) Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today
  4. Swimming - Women's 200m Individual Medley Final (Official) Archived 2013-06-26 at the Wayback Machine