Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
| Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 2 August 2024 (Heats and Semis) 3 August 2024 (Final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 34 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:06.56 OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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| Qualification | |||
| Freestyle | |||
| 50 m | men | women | |
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| 800 m | men | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women | |
| Backstroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Breaststroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Butterfly | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Individual medley | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| Freestyle relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | women | |
| Medley relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
| Marathon | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |
The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 2 and 3 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events.[1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each competitor had to swim four lengths of the pool.
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record |  Katinka Hosszú (HUN) |
2:06.12 | Kazan, Russia | 3 August 2015 | [2] |
| Olympic record |  Katinka Hosszú (HUN) |
2:06.58 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 9 August 2016 | [3][4] |
The following record was established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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| 3 August | Final | Summer McIntosh |  Canada |
2:06.56 | OR |
Qualification
[edit]Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).[5] For this event, the OQT was 2:11.47. World Aquatics then filled the rest of the event places with athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.[5][6] In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, while 11 athletes qualified through universality places.[6]
| Swimmer | Country | Time | Competition |
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| Kate Douglass |  United States
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02:06:79 | 2024 United States Olympic Trials |
| Summer McIntosh | Canada
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02:06:89 | 2023 Canadian Trials |
| Kaylee McKeown |  Australia
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02:06:99 | 2024 Australian Championships |
| Alex Walsh | United States
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02:07:63 | 2024 Pro Swim Series Knoxville |
| Sydney Pickrem | Canada
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02:07:68 | 2024 Canadian Olympic Trials |
| Yu Yiting |  China
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02:07:75 | 2022 Asian Games |
| Anastasia Gorbenko |  Israel
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02:08:55 | 2024 Mare Nostrum Barcelona |
| Marrit Steenbergen |  Netherlands
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02:08:86 | 2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet |
| Abbie Wood |  Great Britain
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02:08:91 | 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships |
| Yui Ohashi |  Japan
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02:09:17 | 2024 Japanese Olympic Trials |
Competition format
[edit]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
[edit]All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
| Date | Time | Round |
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| 2 August 2024 | 10:00 | Heats |
| 19:37 | Semifinals | |
| 3 August 2024 | 17:30 | Final |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]
Semifinals
[edit]The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 2 | 5 | Alex Walsh | United States |
2:07.45 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Summer McIntosh | Canada |
2:08.30 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | Kate Douglass | United States |
2:08.59 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 6 | Abbie Wood | Great Britain |
2:09.64 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada |
2:09.65 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 4 | Yu Yiting | China |
2:09.74 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Kaylee McKeown | Australia |
2:09.97 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 3 | Ella Ramsay | Australia |
2:10.16 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 7 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel |
2:10.32 | |
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Ye Shiwen | China |
2:10.45 | |
| 11 | 1 | 8 | Rebecca Meder |  South Africa |
2:10.67 | NR |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Yui Ohashi | Japan |
2:10.94 | |
| 13 | 2 | 8 | Ellen Walshe |  Ireland |
2:11.35 | |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Shiho Matsumoto | Japan |
2:11.85 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Emma Carrasco |  Spain |
2:12.25 | |
| 16 | 1 | 2 | Charlotte Bonnet |  France |
2:12.80 |
Final
[edit]| External videos | |
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 Women's 200 metre individual medley final |
| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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5 | Summer McIntosh | Canada |
2:06.56 | OR, WJ, NR |
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3 | Kate Douglass | United States |
2:06.92 | |
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1 | Kaylee McKeown | Australia |
2:08.08 | |
| 4 | 7 | Yu Yiting | China |
2:08.49 | |
| 5 | 6 | Abbie Wood | Great Britain |
2:09.51 | |
| 6 | 2 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada |
2:09.74 | |
| – | 8 | Ella Ramsay | Australia |
DNS | |
| 4 | Alex Walsh | United States |
DSQ | Recorded time of 2:07.06 before DSQ |
| Name | 50 metre split | 100 metre split | 150 metre split | Time | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
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| Summer McIntosh | 00:26.80 | 00:58.60 | 01:36.13 | 2:06.56 | 47.0 |
| Kate Douglass | 00:26.73 | 01:01.05 | 01:36.80 | 2:06.92 | 41.5 |
| Kaylee McKeown | 00:27.59 | 00:59.27 | 01:37.04 | 2:08.08 | 48.1 |
| Yu Yiting | 00:27.31 | 01:00.05 | 01:37.42 | 2:08.49 | 44.7 |
| Abbie Wood | 00:27.43 | 01:00.21 | 01:38.08 | 2:09.51 | 45.7 |
| Sydney Pickrem | 00:27.89 | 01:00.36 | 01:37.55 | 2:09.74 | 44.7 |
References
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- ^ "Katinka Hosszu Stuns, Takes Down Techsuited World Record in 200 IM at 2015 FINA World Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ Baldwin, Alan (10 August 2016). "Swimming: Hosszu completes her golden treble". Reuters. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ^ "'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu wins 200 IM, third gold of Rio Games". Olympics. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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