Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	31 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:53.27 OR
Medalists
Mollie O'Callaghan   Australia Ariarne Titmus   Australia Siobhán Haughey   Hong Kong
←  2020 2028  →

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 28 and 29 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. ^[1] This will be the fifteenth running of the event since the first in 1968.

Records

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

World record	Ariarne Titmus  (AUS)	1:52.23	Brisbane, Australia	12 June 2024
Olympic record	Ariarne Titmus  (AUS)	1:53.50	Tokyo, Japan	28 July 2021

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
29 July	Final	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:53.27	OR

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT). ^{[2] [3]}

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline. ^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024. ^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Women's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m freestyle	1:57.26	1:57.85

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
28 July 2024	12:00	Heats
	21:50	Semifinals
29 July 2024	21:53	Final

Results

Heats

31 swimmers, representing 27 nations, entered the event.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:55.79	Q
2	4	3	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:56.21	Q
3	4	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:56.23	Q
4	2	3	Li Bingjie	China	1:56.28	Q
5	2	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:56.38	Q
6	2	5	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:56.48	Q
7	3	3	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:56.54	Q
8	2	6	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	1:56.65	Q
9	4	5	Yang Junxuan	China	1:56.83	Q
10	3	5	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:57.02	Q
11	4	6	Erin Gemmell	United States	1:57.23	Q
12	3	2	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:57.50	Q
13	2	2	Lilla Minna Ábrahám	Hungary	1:57.77	Q
14	4	2	Aimee Canny	South Africa	1:57.81	Q
15	3	7	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	1:58.32	Q
16	4	1	Rebecca Diaconescu	Romania	1:59.29	Q
17	4	7	Julia Mrozinski	Germany	1:59.87
18	2	1	Enkhkhuslen Batbayar	Mongolia	1:59.94
19	2	7	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:00.38
20	3	1	María Yegres	Venezuela	2:00.66
21	4	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:03.38
22	3	8	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:04.88
23	1	4	Dhinidhi Desinghu	India	2:06.96
24	2	8	Lojine Abdalla Salah	Egypt	2:07.19
25	1	5	Ariana Southa Dirkzwager	Laos	2:07.22
26	1	3	Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan	2:10.69
27	1	6	Kaltra Meca	Albania	2:12.21
28	1	7	Maha Alshehhi	United Arab Emirates	2:17.17
29	1	1	Mashael Meshari A Alayed	Saudi Arabia	2:19.61
30	1	2	Duana Lama	Nepal	2:20.74
	3	6	Nikolett Pádár	Hungary	DSQ

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Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:54.64	Q
2	2	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:54.70	Q
3	1	3	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:55.24	Q
4	2	3	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:55.51	Q
5	2	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.90	Q
6	1	2	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:56.06	Q
7	2	6	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:56.31	Q
8	1	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:56.37	Q
9	2	7	Erin Gemmell	United States	1:56.46
10	1	5	Li Bingjie	China	1:56.56
11	1	6	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	1:56.89
12	1	1	Aimee Canny	South Africa	1:57.34
13	1	7	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:57.50
14	2	1	Lilla Minna Ábrahám	Hungary	1:57.78
15	2	8	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	1:58.78
16	1	8	Rebecca Diaconescu	Romania	1:59.58

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Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:53.27	OR
	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:53.81
	6	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:54.55
4	8	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:55.29
5	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.38
6	7	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:55.47
7	1	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:55.59
8	3	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:56.60

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References

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2. "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
4. "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.
5. "Women's 200m Freestyle - Heats results" (PDF). Olympics. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
6. "Women's 200m Freestyle - Heats results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
7. "Women's 200m Freestyle - Semifinals results" (PDF). Olympics. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
8. "Women's 200m Freestyle - Semifinals results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
9. "Women's 200m Freestyle - Finals results" (PDF). Olympics. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.