Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	29 July (heats and semifinals) 30 July (final)
Competitors	47
Winning time	2 minutes 8.52 seconds
Medalists
Kirsty Coventry    Zimbabwe   Margaret Hoelzer    United States   Reiko Nakamura    Japan

The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. It was the longest of the 3 backstroke events for women at the 2005 Worlds. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinals^[2] heats were swum 29 July, with the Final heat on 30 July.^[3] The top-16 finishers from Prelims advanced to swim again in Semifinals; the top-8 swimmers in Semifinals advanced to swim a third time in the Final.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), swum 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece
• CR: 2:07.40, Cihong He (China), swum 11 September 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:11.52	q
1	H6 L4	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:11.52	q
3	H5 L5	Margaret Hoelzer	United States	2:11.74	q
4	H5 L4	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:11.84	q
5	H6 L3	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:12.67	q
6	H4 L4	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:12.87	q
7	H5 L2	Tayliah Zimmer	Australia	2:13.38	q
8	H5 L3	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	2:13.39	q
9	H6 L2	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	2:13.59	q
10	H4 L6	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:13.62	q
11	H6 L6	Alessia Filippi	Italy	2:13.71	q
12	H3 L4	Jeri Moss	United States	2:13.76	q
13	H5 L6	Annika Liebs	Germany	2:13.78	q
14	H4 L3	ZHAO Jing	China	2:13.85	q
15	H4 L7	Chen Yanyan	China	2:14.35	q
16	H5 L7	Duane Rocha	Spain	2:14.38	q
17	H6 L7	Melissa Corfe	South Africa	2:14.71
18	H6 L8	Katarzyna Staszak	Poland	2:14.75
19	H4 L1	Kelly Stefanyshyn	Canada	2:15.23
20	H5 L8	Elizabeth Warden	Canada	2:15.46
21	H5 L1	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:16.48
22	H2 L4	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	2:17.17
23	H6 L1	Giaan Rooney	Australia	2:17.32
24	H4 L2	Therese Svendsen	Sweden	2:17.43
25	H3 L5	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	2:17.48
25	H6 L5	Alexandra Putra	France	2:17.48
27	H3 L1	Sadan Derya Erke	Turkey	2:17.49
28	H3 L2	Danit Kama	Israel	2:17.93
29	H3 L8	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	2:18.61
30	H4 L8	Yoo Jin Jung	South Korea	2:19.57
31	H2 L6	Jane Kaljonen	Finland	2:19.67
32	H3 L3	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	2:19.83
33	H3 L6	Man-Hsu Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:20.37
34	H3 L7	Lenka Jarosova	Czech Republic	2:21.11
35	H2 L5	Berit Aljand	Estonia	2:22.27
36	H2 L2	Laura Rodriguez	Dominican Republic	2:27.78
37	H2 L1	Valeria Silva	Peru	2:28.24
38	H1 L6	Imane Boulaamane	Morocco	2:28.55
39	H2 L7	Bernadette Lee	Singapore	2:30.60
40	H1 L5	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	2:31.42
41	H1 L2	Jonay Briedenhann	Namibia	2:32.64
42	H1 L3	Weng I Kuan	Macau	2:33.05
43	H2 L8	QUAH Ting Wen	Singapore	2:33.16
44	H1 L1	Sussie Pineda	Honduras	2:41.02
-	H2 L3	Yu Yon Kim	South Korea	DQ
-	H1 L4	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	DNS
-	H1 L7	Mireille Hakimeh	Syria	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:09.88
2	S1 L3	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:11.17
3	S2 L5	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:11.32
4	S1 L5	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:11.58
5	S2 L3	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:11.59
6	S2 L3	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:12.05
7	S2 L7	Alessia Filippi	Italy	2:12.16
8	S1 L1	ZHAO Jing	China	2:12.55
9	S2 L2	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	2:12.57
10	S1 L2	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:12.64
11	S2 L1	Annika Liebs	Germany	2:13.35
12	S1 L6	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	2:13.41
13	S1 L7	Jeri Moss	USA	2:13.64
14	S2 L6	Tayliah Zimmer	Australia	2:14.68
15	S2 L8	Chen Yanyan	China	2:14.92
16	S1 L8	Duane Rocha	Spain	2:16.50

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
01 !	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:08.52
02 !	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:09.94
03 !	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:10.41
4	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:10.98
5	Alessia Filippi	Italy	2:11.44
6	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:12.03
7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:12.93
8	ZHAO Jing	China	2:13.10

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