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

Women’s 200 metre freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Championships
Dates	26 July 2005 (heats, semifinals) 27 July 2005 (final)
Competitors	64
Winning time	1 minutes 58.60 seconds
Medalists
Solenne Figues   France   Federica Pellegrini   Italy   Yang Yu   China   Josefin Lillhage   Sweden
«2003	2007»

2005 FINA World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
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
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
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	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Combination		women
Water polo
Team	men	women

The Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships occurred on 26 July (heats and semifinals) and in the evening of 27 July (final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 64 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 62 swam in one of 8 heats. The top-16 swimmers from the preliminary heats advanced on to semifinals; the top-8 swimmers in the two semifinals heats advanced onto the next night's final.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 1:56.64, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), 3 August 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
• Championship record (CR): 1:56.78, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), 6 September 1994 in Rome, Italy.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Final 1.2 Semifinals 1.3 Prelims 2 See also 3 References

Results

Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Solenne Figues	France	1:58.60
2	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:58.73
3	Yang Yu	China	1:59.08
3	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:59.08
5	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:59.23
6	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	1:59.34
7	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	1:59.36
8	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	2:00.02

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Solenne Figues	France	1:58.75	Q
2	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:58.79	Q
3	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:58.82	Q
4	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	1:58.86	Q
5	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:59.00	Q
6	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	1:59.18	Q
7	Yang Yu	China	1:59.31	Q
8	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:59.35	Q
9	Katie Hoff	USA	1:59.36
10	Whitney Myers	USA	1:59.38
11	Camelia Potec	Romania	1:59.41
12	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	2:00.17
13	Sophie Simard	Canada	2:00.26
14	Petra Dallmann	Germany	2:00.32
15	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:00.49
16	Jiaying Pang	China	2:00.57

Prelims

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:59.12	Q
2	Katie Hoff	USA	1:59.28	Q
3	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:59.32	Q
4	Yang Yu	China	1:59.72	Q
5	Solenne Figues	France	1:59.75	Q
6	Whitney Myers	USA	1:59.83	Q
7	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:59.88	Q
8	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:59.90	Q
9	Norie Urabe	Japan	2:00.06	Q
10	Camelia Potec	Romania	2:00.11	Q
11	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	2:00.17	Q
12	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	2:00.19	Q
13	Sophie Simard	Canada	2:00.24	Q
14	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	2:00.34	Q
15	Jiaying Pang	China	2:00.41	Q
16	Petra Dallmann	Germany	2:00.63	Q
17	Shayne Reese	Australia	2:00.80
18	Daria Beliakina	Russia	2:01.08
19	Meike Freitag	Germany	2:01.19
20	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:01.20
21	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:01.35
22	Haruka Ueda	Japan	2:01.65
23	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	2:02.15
24	Ji Eun Lee	South Korea	2:02.25
25	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	2:02.69
26	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	2:03.39
27	Simona Ricciardi	Italy	2:03.43
28	Chin-Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	2:03.56
29	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:03.59
30	Lotte Friis	Denmark	2:03.63
31	Tatiana Rouba	Spain	2:03.75
32	Na-Ri Park	South Korea	2:03.78
33	Katarzyna Kowalczyk	Poland	2:03.96
34	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	2:03.97
35	Ionela Cozma	Romania	2:04.13
36	Hang Yu Sze	Hong Kong	2:06.10
37	Christine Mailliet	Luxembourg	2:06.28
38	Jasna Ovsenik	Slovenia	2:06.31
39	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	2:06.37
40	Man-Hsu Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:06.59
41	Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada	El Salvador	2:07.81
42	Jiratida Phinyosophon	Thailand	2:07.97
43	Maryia Hanchar	Belarus	2:08.07
44	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	2:08.16
45	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:08.62
46	Sarah Chahed	Tunisia	2:08.63
47	Carolina Cerqueda	Andorra	2:08.80
48	Mylene Ong	Singapore	2:08.84
49	Paolo Duguet	Colombia	2:09.50
50	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	2:10.22
51	Wing Yan Fung	Hong Kong	2:10.29
52	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	2:11.15
53	Man Wai Fong	Macao	2:11.90
54	Olga Beresneva	Israel	2:12.32
55	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	2:12.43
56	Davina Mangion	Malta	2:12.79
57	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn	Thailand	2:13.04
58	Imane Boulaamane	Morocco	2:13.63
59	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	2:15.02
60	Laura Rodriguez	Dominican Republic	2:17.98
--	Anifath F.M. Okanla	Benin	DNS
--	Brittany Reimer	Canada	DNS

See also

• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women’s 200m freestyle
• Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women’s 200 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women’s 200m freestyle

References

• FINA Worlds 2005: Women’s 200 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2011-01-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Women’s 200 Freestyle semifinals results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2011-01-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Women’s 200 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2011-01-21.