Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle
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Women's 200 metre freestyle1973 World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | September 5, 1973 | |||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 23 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 2:04.999 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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1973 FINA World Championships Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
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Diving | ||||
Individual | ||||
3 m | men | women | ||
10 m | men | women | ||
Swimming | ||||
Freestyle | ||||
100 m | men | women | ||
200 m | men | women | ||
400 m | men | women | ||
800 m | women | |||
1500 m | men | |||
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 | |||
Medley relay | ||||
4×100 m | men | women | ||
Synchronised swimming | ||||
Solo | women | |||
Duet | women | |||
Team | women | |||
Water polo | ||||
The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.
Contents
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
World record | ![]() |
2:03.56 | Munich, West Germany | 1 September 1972 |
Championship record | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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5 September | Heat | Lesley Allardice | ![]() |
2:12.946 | CR |
5 September | Heat | Irwi Johansson | ![]() |
2:09.260 | CR |
5 September | Heat | Andrea Eife | ![]() |
2:08.099 | CR |
5 September | Heat | Keena Rothhammer | ![]() |
2:07.531 | CR |
5 September | Final | Keena Rothhammer | ![]() |
2:04.999 | CR |
Results
Heats
34 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:[1]
Final
The results of the final are below.
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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- | Keena Rothhammer | ![]() |
2:04.999 | CR |
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- | Shirley Babashoff | ![]() |
2:05.332 | |
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- | Andrea Eife | ![]() |
2:05.525 | |
4 | - | Virginia Rickard | ![]() |
2:07.889 | PB |
5 | - | Irwi Johansson | ![]() |
2:08.895 | |
6 | - | Elke Sehmisch | ![]() |
2:09.331 | |
7 | - | Veronica Stel | ![]() |
2:09.412 | |
8 | - | Jutta Weber | ![]() |
2:10.587 |