Swimming 2020/Women's 200 metre freestyle

The women's 200 metre freestyle of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 26-28 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 29 athletes competing, the event was won by Ariarne Titmus from Australia, with Siobhan Bernadette Haughey from Hong Kong taking the silver medal and Penny Oleksiak from Canada taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Twenty-nine athletes qualified for the event with Ariarne Titmus as the woman in form. She only recently approached the world record by a tenth of a second, with times recorded by world champion Federica Pellegrini, defending champion Kathleen Ledecky, and Yang Junxuan over a second behind her. Siobhan Bernadette Haughey, Madison Wilson, Allison Schmitt, and Freya Anderson could also contend for the medals in a field that also featured 2018 European champion Charlotte Bonnet, 2021 European champion Barbora Seemanova, 2016 Olympic champion on the 100 metres Penny Oleksiak, and young talent Summer McIntosh.

Athlete	Nationality
Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon
Beatriz Padron	Costa Rica
Ieva Maluka	Latvia
Gabriela Santis	Guatemala
Lina Khiyara	Morocco
Janja Segel	Slovenia
Veronika Andrusenko	ROC
Charlotte Bonnet	France
Kathleen Ledecky	United States
Madison Wilson	Australia
Penny Oleksiak	Canada
Erika Fairweather	New Zealand
Anh Vien Nguyen Thi Anh	Vietnam
Joanna Evans	Bahamas
Isabel Gose	Germany
Freya Anderson	Great Britain
Federica Pellegrini	Italy
Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	Hong Kong
Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic
Valeriia Salamatina	ROC
Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	Iceland
Andrea Murez	Israel
Li Bingjie	China
Allison Schmitt	United States
Ariarne Titmus	Australia
Yang Junxuan	China
Summer McIntosh	Canada
Annika Bruhn	Germany
Elisbet Gamez Matos	Cuba

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	29 July 2009		Federica Pellegrini	1:52.98
OR	31 July 2012		Allison Schmitt	1:53.61

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ieva Maluka	2:03.75
2		Beatriz Padron	2:04.56	PR
3		Gabriela Santis	2:07.24
4		Lina Khiyara	2:08.80
5		Gabriella Doueihy	2:11.29

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kathleen Ledecky	1:55.28	Q
2		Penny Oleksiak	1:55.38	Q, PR
3		Madison Wilson	1:55.87	Q
4		Charlotte Bonnet	1:56.88	Q
5		Erika Fairweather	1:57.26	Q, NR
6		Janja Segel	1:58.38	PR
7		Veronika Andrusenko	1:59.17
8		Anh Vien Nguyen Thi Anh	2:05.30

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Barbora Seemanova	1:56.38	Q
2		Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	1:56.48	Q
3		Isabel Gose	1:56.80	Q, PR
4		Freya Anderson	1:56.96	Q
5		Federica Pellegrini	1:57.33	Q
6		Valeriia Salamatina	1:58.33	Q
7		Joanna Evans	1:58.40
8		Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	2:00.20	NR

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ariarne Titmus	1:55.88	Q
2		Summer McIntosh	1:56.11	Q, PR
3		Yang Junxuan	1:56.17	Q
4		Allison Schmitt	1:57.10	Q
5		Annika Bruhn	1:57.15	Q, PR
6		Andrea Murez	1:58.97
7		Li Bingjie	1:59.03
8		Elisbet Gamez Matos	2:00.56

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ariarne Titmus	1:54.82	Q
2		Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	1:55.16	Q
3		Yang Junxuan	1:55.98	Q
4		Penny Oleksiak	1:56.39	Q, PR
5		Allison Schmitt	1:56.87
6		Charlotte Bonnet	1:57.35
7		Valeriia Salamatina	1:58.98
8		Erika Fairweather	1:59.14

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kathleen Ledecky	1:55.34	Q
2		Barbora Seemanova	1:56.14	Q, NR
3		Federica Pellegrini	1:56.44	Q
4		Madison Wilson	1:56.58	Q
5		Summer McIntosh	1:56.82
6		Isabel Gose	1:57.07
7		Freya Anderson	1:57.10
8		Annika Bruhn	1:57.62

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ariarne Titmus	1:53.50	OR
2		Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	1:53.92	AR
3		Penny Oleksiak	1:54.70	PR
4		Yang Junxuan	1:55.01
5		Kathleen Ledecky	1:55.21
6		Barbora Seemanova	1:55.45	NR
7		Federica Pellegrini	1:55.91
8		Madison Wilson	1:56.39

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Ariarne Titmus	Australia
	Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	Hong Kong
	Penny Oleksiak	Canada
4	Yang Junxuan	China
5	Kathleen Ledecky	United States
6	Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic
7	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
8	Madison Wilson	Australia
9	Summer McIntosh	Canada
10	Allison Schmitt	United States
11	Isabel Gose	Germany
12	Freya Anderson	Great Britain
13	Charlotte Bonnet	France
14	Annika Bruhn	Germany
15	Valeriia Salamatina	ROC
16	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand
17	Janja Segel	Slovenia
18	Joanna Evans	Bahamas
19	Andrea Murez	Israel
20	Li Bingjie	China
21	Veronika Andrusenko	ROC
22	Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	Iceland
23	Elisbet Gamez Matos	Cuba
24	Ieva Maluka	Latvia
25	Beatriz Padron	Costa Rica
26	Anh Vien Bguyen Thi Anh	Vietnam
27	Gabriela Santis	Guatemala
28	Lina Khiyara	Morocco
29	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon

2020 Summer Olympic Games
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Men
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Women
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Mixed
4x100 m medley