Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	2 August 2024 (Heats and Semis) 3 August 2004 (Final)
Competitors	34

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from August 2 and August 3 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

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

World	2:06.12	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	Kazan	3 Aug 2015
Olympic	2:06.58			Rio de Janeiro	9 Aug 2016

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Women's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m individual medley	2:11.47	2:12.13

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
August 2 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
August 3 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Kaylee McKeown	Australia
			Ella Ramsay	Australia
			Lena Kreundl	Austria
			Summer McIntosh	Canada
			Sydney Pickrem	Canada
			Ye Shiwen	China
			Yu Yiting	China
			Jayla Pina	Cape Verde
			Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic
			Emma Carrasco	Spain
			Charlotte Bonnet	France
			Freya Colbert	Great Britain
			Abbie Wood	Great Britain
			Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary
			Azzahra Permatahani	Indonesia
			Ellen Walshe	Ireland
			Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel
			Lea Polonsky	Israel
			Sara Franceschi	Italy
			Shiho Matsumoto	Japan
			Yui Ohashi	Japan
			Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea
			Ieva Maļuka	Latvia
			Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands
			Valerie Tarazi	Palestine
			McKenna DeBever	Peru
			Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico
			Rebecca Meder	South Africa
			Tamara Potocká	Slovakia
			Han An-chi	Chinese Taipei
			Nicole Frank	Uruguay
			Kate Douglass	United States
			Alexandra Walsh	United States
			Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes