Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	August 2, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 3, 2013 (final)
Competitors	34 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:04.76 CR
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2–3 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.06	London, Great Britain	3 August 2012	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)	2:04.81	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009	^[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August	Final	Missy Franklin	United States	2:04.76	CR

The heats were held at 10:54.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:07.57	Q
2	2	4	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:07.64	Q
3	2	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:07.81	Q, NR
4	2	5	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:08.69	Q
5	2	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.93	Q
6	4	3	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:09.24	Q
7	3	3	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:09.31	Q
8	3	4	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	2:09.56	Q
9	4	5	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:10.62	Q
10	3	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	2:10.65	Q
11	2	2	Karin Prinsloo	South Africa	2:10.71	Q
12	4	1	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:10.86	Q
13	4	6	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:10.87	Q
14	3	7	Miyu Otsuka	Japan	2:11.69	Q
15	4	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:11.86	Q
16	3	1	Bai Anqi	China	2:12.14	Q
17	4	7	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:12.32
18	3	8	Fernanda González	Mexico	2:12.53
19	2	8	Nguyen Thi Anh Vien	Vietnam	2:12.75
20	4	8	Sophia Batchelor	New Zealand	2:12.89
21	3	6	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	2:14.01
22	3	0	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	2:14.02
23	2	1	Im Da-Sol	South Korea	2:14.07
24	2	7	Selina Hocke	Germany	2:14.10
25	3	2	Lauren Quigley	Great Britain	2:14.27
26	2	9	Ugne Mazutaityte	Lithuania	2:14.41
27	1	3	Zanre Oberholzer	Namibia	2:14.52
28	2	0	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	2:14.76
29	4	9	Halime Zeren	Turkey	2:15.48
30	1	4	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	2:15.63
31	1	5	Tatiana Perstniova	Moldova	2:17.19
32	1	2	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:18.04
33	1	6	Inés Remersaro	Uruguay	2:24.15
34	1	7	Kimiko Shihara Raheem	Sri Lanka	2:26.61
	3	9	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria		DNS
	4	0	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:18.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	2:08.20	Q
2	4	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:08.49	Q
3	5	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:09.08	Q
4	3	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:09.84	Q
5	2	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	2:09.97
6	8	Bai Anqi	China	2:11.18
7	1	Miyu Otsuka	Japan	2:11.68
8	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:11.83

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:06.46	Q
2	5	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:07.15	Q, NR
3	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.74	Q
4	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.97	Q
5	7	Karin Prinsloo	South Africa	2:10.04
6	8	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:10.46
7	1	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:11.48
8	2	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:11.72

The final was held at 18:17.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:04.76	CR
	6	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:06.66
	5	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:06.80	NR
4	2	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.72
5	3	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	2:08.98
6	7	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:09.08
7	8	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:10.46
8	1	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:11.30