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Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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Field	Value
event	Women's 200 metre individual medley
games	2012 Summer
venue	London Aquatics Centre
date	July 30, 2012 (heats &
semifinals)
July 31, 2012 (final)
competitors	34
nations	28
win_value	2:07.57
gold	Ye Shiwen
goldNOC	CHN
silver	Alicia Coutts
silverNOC	AUS
bronze	Caitlin Leverenz
bronzeNOC	USA
prev	2008
next	2016

semifinals) July 31, 2012 (final)

The women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 30–31 July at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.

Despite allegations of doping, China's Ye Shiwen pulled away from the rest of the field to strike a medley double for the fifth straight time in Olympic history since Michelle Smith did so in 1996, Yana Klochkova in 2000 and 2004, and Australia's Stephanie Rice in 2008. Coming from third at the final turn, she opened up her lead with a superb freestyle leg to establish a new Olympic record and a sterling gold-medal time in 2:07.57. Australia's Alicia Coutts produced a striking effort to claim the silver behind the Chinese teen in a lifetime best of 2:08.15, adding it to her Olympic hardware with a full set of medals. Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Caitlin Leverenz stormed home on the rear of a dominant breaststroke leg to take the bronze in 2:08.95.

Rice, the defending Olympic champion, finished fourth in 2:09.55, while U.S. world record holder Ariana Kukors lost her chance to climb the podium with a fifth-place time in 2:09.83. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry fell short in her second attempt for an Olympic medal, earning a sixth spot in 2:11.13. Great Britain's Hannah Miley (2:11.29) and Hungary's Katinka Hosszú (2:14.19) rounded out the field.

Earlier in the semifinals, Ye threw down a fastest freestyle split of 30.59 to set an Olympic record and a textile best in 2:08.39, cutting off Rice's previous standard by six-hundredths of a second (0.06) in a since-banned high tech bodysuit.

Records

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

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
July 30	Semifinal 2	Ye Shiwen	CHN	2:08.39
July 31	Final	Ye Shiwen	CHN	2:07.57

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ye Shiwen	CHN	2:08.90	Q
2	5	6	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:10.51	Q
3	4	5	Caitlin Leverenz	USA	2:10.63	Q
4	4	3	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	2:10.68	Q
5	4	4	Alicia Coutts	AUS	2:10.74	Q
6	3	5	Mireia Belmonte García	ESP	2:11.73	Q
7	3	4	Ariana Kukors	USA	2:11.94	Q
8	3	6	Evelyn Verrasztó	HUN	2:12.17	Q
9	5	5	Stephanie Rice	AUS	2:12.23	Q
10	5	3	Hannah Miley	GBR	2:12.27	Q
11	3	2	Theresa Michalak	GER	2:12.75	Q
12	3	1	Amit Ivry	ISR	2:13.29	Q, NR
13	3	7	Li Jiaxing	CHN	2:13.43	Q
14	5	2	Izumi Kato	JPN	2:13.85	Q
15	4	2	Beatriz Gómez Cortes	ESP	2:13.93	Q
16	3	8	Joanna Melo	BRA	2:14.26	Q
17	3	3	Erica Morningstar	CAN	2:14.32
18	2	5	Ganna Dzerkal	UKR	2:14.55
19	2	4	Lisa Zaiser	AUT	2:14.56
20	5	7	Stina Gardell	SWE	2:14.70
21	4	6	Sophie Allen	GBR	2:14.72
22	2	7	Sycerika McMahon	IRL	2:14.76
23	4	7	Choi Hye-ra	KOR	2:14.91
24	4	1	Kathryn Meaklim	RSA	2:15.25
25	2	3	Ranohon Amanova	UZB	2:15.37
26	5	1	Natalie Wiegersma	NZL	2:16.24
27	2	2	Erica Dittmer	MEX	2:16.54	NR
28	2	6	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	ISL	2:16.81	NR
1	4	Katarína Listopadová	SVK
30	2	1	Kim Daniela Pavlin	CRO	2:17.17
31	1	3	Cheng Wan-jung	TPE	2:17.39
32	4	8	Barbora Závadová	CZE	2:17.54
33	1	5	Emilia Pikkarainen	FIN	2:17.66
34	5	8	Ekaterina Andreeva	RUS	2:17.84

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	2:10.74	Q
2	2	Hannah Miley	GBR	2:10.89	Q
3	4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:10.93	Q
4	6	Evelyn Verrasztó	HUN	2:11.53
5	3	Mireia Belmonte García	ESP	2:11.54
6	7	Amit Ivry	ISR	2:13.31
7	1	Izumi Kato	JPN	2:14.47
8	8	Joanna Melo	BRA	2:14.74

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ye Shiwen	CHN	2:08.39	Q,
2	3	Alicia Coutts	AUS	2:09.83	Q
3	5	Caitlin Leverenz	USA	2:10.06	Q
4	6	Ariana Kukors	USA	2:10.08	Q
5	2	Stephanie Rice	AUS	2:10.80	Q
6	1	Li Jiaxing	CHN	2:12.69
7	7	Theresa Michalak	GER	2:13.24
8	8	Beatriz Gómez Cortes	ESP	2:15.12

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ye Shiwen	CHN	2:07.57	, AS
	5	Alicia Coutts	AUS	2:08.15
	3	Caitlin Leverenz	USA	2:08.95
4	7	Stephanie Rice	AUS	2:09.55
5	6	Ariana Kukors	USA	2:09.83
6	8	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:11.13
7	1	Hannah Miley	GBR	2:11.29
8	2	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	2:14.19

References

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White, Duncan. (31 July 2012). "Ye Shiwen hits out at doubters after claiming second swimming gold medal amid doping row". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
(1 August 2012). "Alicia Coutts adds silver to her London Olympics medal haul as Stephanie Rice narrowly misses bronze". [[The Courier-Mail]].
(1 August 2012). "Alicia Coutts's silver win in 200IM a 'fair fight' behind China's Ye Shiwen". [[The Australian]].
Das, Andrew. (31 July 2012). "For Chinese Swimmer, Same Result". [[New York Times]].
(31 July 2012). "2012 London Olympics: Ye Shiwen Uses Superb Freestyle Leg to Power to IM Sweep With Olympic Record in 200 IM; Alicia Coutts, Caitlin Leverenz 2-3; Ariana Kukors Fifth". [[Swimming World Magazine]].
(1 August 2012). "Coutts completes set with 200 IM silver". [[ABC News Australia]].
(31 July 2012). "Olympics swimming: Ye Shiwen wins second gold at London 2012". [[New York Times]].
Longman, Jere. (30 July 2012). "China Pool Prodigy Churns Wave of Speculation". [[New York Times]].
(26 July 2009). "Kukors Sets World Record, Men's 4×100m Wins Gold". [[United States Olympic Committee.
(26 July 2009). "Auburn's Kukors sets stunning world swim record". [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].
(13 August 2008). "Rice claims medley double". [[ABC News (Australia).
"Women's 200m Individual Medley – Heats". [[London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games]].
"Women's 200m Individual Medley – Semifinals". [[London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games]].

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