Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

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The Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 31 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 59 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 56 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece.
• Championship Record (CR): 2:07.40, HE Cihong (China), Rome 1994 (11 September 1994)

Results

Finals

Place	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Note
1st	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:07.16	CR, NR
2nd	Kirsty Coventry	Simbabwe	2:07.54
3rd	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:08.54
4th	Esther Baron	Frankreich	2:09.59
5th	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:10.57
6th	Nikolett Szepesi	Ungarn	2:10.66
7th	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:11.09
8th	Alessia Filippi	Italien	2:11.41

Semifinals

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Zeit	Note
1	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:07.70	Q, NR
2	Kirsty Coventry	Simbabwe	2:07.76	Q
3	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:08.82	Q
4	Esther Baron	Frankreich	2:10.55	Q
5	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:10.69	Q
6	Alessia Filippi	Italien	2:11.16	Q
	Nikolett Szepesi	Ungarn		Q
8	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:11.20	Q
9	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:11.49
10	Escarlata Bernard Gonzalez	Spanien	2:11.72
11	Frances Adcock	Australien	2:12.04
12	Elizabeth Beisel	USA	2:12.09
13	Hannah McLean	Neuseeland	2:13.12
14	Joanna Fargus	Australien	2:13.22
15	Evelyn Verrasztó	Ungarn	2:13.52
16	Melissa Ingram	Neuseeland	2:14.07

Preliminaries

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Zeit	Note
1	Kirsty Coventry	Simbabwe	2:07.99	Q
2	Esther Baron	Frankreich	2:09.77	Q
3	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:10.25	Q
4	Nikolett Szepesi	Ungarn	2:10.85	Q
5	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:11.12	Q
6	Joanna Fargus	Australien	2:11.50	Q
7	Frances Adcock	Australien	2:11.60	Q
8	Elizabeth Beisel	USA	2:11.91	Q
9	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:11.92	Q
10	Escarlata Bernard Gonzalez	Spanien	2:12.43	Q
11	Hannah McLean	Neuseeland	2:12.58	Q
12	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:12.68	Q
13	Melissa Ingram	Neuseeland	2:12.97	Q
14	Alessia Filippi	Italien	2:13.03	Q
15	Evelyn Verrasztó	Ungarn	2:13.04	Q
16	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:13.05	Q
17	Zhao Jing	China	2:13.12
18	Carin Möller	Schweden	2:13.32	NR
19	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russland	2:13.54
20	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	2:13.60
21	Kelly Stefanyshyn	Kanada	2:13.65
22	Aliaksandra Kavaleva	Weißrussland	2:14.09
23	Erin Volcán	Venezuela	2:14.89
24	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	2:14.92
25	Nicole Hetzer	Deutschland	2:15.02
26	Julia Wilkinson	Kanada	2:15.39
27	BAI Anqi	China	2:15.51
28	Iwona Lefanowicz	Polen	2:15.58
29	Therese Svendsen	Schweden	2:16.18
30	Sanja Jovanović	Kroatien	2:16.38
31	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	2:16.52
32	Melanie Nocher	Irland	2:17.29
33	Valentina Georgiana Brat	Rumänien	2:18.78
34	Yoo Jin Jung	Südkorea	2:18.80
35	Lourdes Villaseñor	Mexiko	2:20.47
36	Man Hsu Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:21.55
37	Nam Eun Lee	Südkorea	2:22.25
38	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthron	Thailand	2:22.66
39	Hsu Jung He	Chinese Taipei	2:24.22
40	Nazil Ege Calisal	Türkei	2:25.03
41	Ming Xiu Ong	Malaysia	2:25.15
42	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	2:26.32
43	Sook Fun Chai	Malaysia	2:26.38
44	Maftunabonu Tuhtasinova	Usbekistan	2:26.55
45	Wenika Kaewchaiwong	Thailand	2:27.22
46	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	2:27.55
47	Layla Alghul	Jordanien	2:27.77
48	Slavica Pavic	Peru	2:28.02
49	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Usbekistan	2:29.05
50	Thi Cuc Hoang	Vietnam	2:29.20
51	Weng Kuan	Macao	2:30.61
52	Massie Milagros Carrillo	Peru	2:32.06
53	Lacy Palmer-Martin	St. Lucia	2:39.24
54	Siona Huxley	St. Lucia	2:40.96
55	Anouchka Diane Etiennette	Mauritius	2:44.35
56	Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora	Nicaragua	2:45.98
--	Valerie Eman	Aruba	DNS
--	Obia Inyengiyikabo	Nigeria	DNS
--	Annika Lurz	Deutschland	DNS

References

• Women's 200m Backstroke Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 200m Backstroke Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 200m Backstroke Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.