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

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Field	Value
event	Women's 200m Backstroke
competition	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
dates	29 July (heats and semifinals)
30 July (final)
competitors	47
nations	37
win_value	2 minutes 8.52 seconds
gold	Kirsty Coventry
goldNOC	ZIM
silver	Margaret Hoelzer
silverNOC	USA
bronze	Reiko Nakamura
bronzeNOC	JPN
prev	2003
next	2007

30 July (final) Main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships

The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the longest of the 3 backstroke events for women at the 2005 Worlds. Preliminary and Semifinals heats were swum 29 July, with the Final heat on 30 July. 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	DEN	2:11.52	q
1	H6 L4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:11.52	q
3	H5 L5	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:11.74	q
4	H5 L4	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	2:11.84	q
5	H6 L3	Hanae Ito	JPN	2:12.67	q
6	H4 L4	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	2:12.87	q
7	H5 L2	Tayliah Zimmer	AUS	2:13.38	q
8	H5 L3	Katy Sexton	GBR	2:13.39	q
9	H6 L2	Hannah McLean	NZL	2:13.59	q
10	H4 L6	Iryna Amshennikova	UKR	2:13.62	q
11	H6 L6	Alessia Filippi	ITA	2:13.71	q
12	H3 L4	Jeri Moss	USA	2:13.76	q
13	H5 L6	Annika Liebs	GER	2:13.78	q
14	H4 L3	Zhao Jing	CHN	2:13.85	q
15	H4 L7	Chen Yanyan	CHN	2:14.35	q
16	H5 L7	Duane Rocha	ESP	2:14.38	q
17	H6 L7	Melissa Corfe	RSA	2:14.71
18	H6 L8	Katarzyna Staszak	POL	2:14.75
19	H4 L1	Kelly Stefanyshyn	CAN	2:15.23
20	H5 L8	Elizabeth Warden	CAN	2:15.46
21	H5 L1	Melissa Ingram	NZL	2:16.48
22	H2 L4	Gisela Morales	GUA	2:17.17
23	H6 L1	Giaan Rooney	AUS	2:17.32
24	H4 L2	Therese Svendsen	SWE	2:17.43
25	H3 L5	Kateryna Zubkova	UKR	2:17.48
25	H6 L5	Alexandra Putra	FRA	2:17.48
27	H3 L1	Sadan Derya Erke	TUR	2:17.49
28	H3 L2	Danit Kama	ISR	2:17.93
29	H3 L8	Anja Čarman	SLO	2:18.61
30	H4 L8	Yoo Jin Jung	KOR	2:19.57
31	H2 L6	Jane Kaljonen	FIN	2:19.67
32	H3 L3	Anna Gostomelsky	ISR	2:19.83
33	H3 L6	Man-Hsu Lin	TPE	2:20.37
34	H3 L7	Lenka Jarosova	CZE	2:21.11
35	H2 L5	Berit Aljand	EST	2:22.27
36	H2 L2	Laura Rodriguez	DOM	2:27.78
37	H2 L1	Valeria Silva	PER	2:28.24
38	H1 L6	Imane Boulaamane	MAR	2:28.55
39	H2 L7	Bernadette Lee	SIN	2:30.60
40	H1 L5	Saida Iskandarova	UZB	2:31.42
41	H1 L2	Jonay Briedenhann	NAM	2:32.64
42	H1 L3	Weng I Kuan	MAC	2:33.05
43	H2 L8	QUAH Ting Wen	SIN	2:33.16
44	H1 L1	Sussie Pineda	HON	2:41.02
-	H2 L3	Yu Yon Kim	KOR	DQ
-	H1 L4	Kiera Aitken	BER	DNS
-	H1 L7	Mireille Hakimeh	SYR	DNS

Semifinals

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

Final

Place	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time
	4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM Zimbabwe	2:08.52
	3	Margaret Hoelzer	USA USA	2:09.94
	5	Reiko Nakamura	JPN Japan	2:10.41
4	7	Hanae Ito	JPN Japan	2:10.98
5	1	Alessia Filippi	ITA Italy	2:11.44
6	6	Stanislava Komarova	RUS Russia	2:12.03
7	2	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN Denmark	2:12.93
8	8	Zhao Jing	CHN China	2:13.10

References

. (29 July 2005). ["Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Backstroke '''Prelims'''"](http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000105090049000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01).
. (29 July 2005). ["Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Backstroke '''Semifinals'''"](http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010509004E000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01).
. (30 July 2005). ["Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Backstroke '''Finals'''"](http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010509005C000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01).

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