The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 18–19 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.

Yana Klochkova, Ukraine's swimming pride and three-time European champion, became the fourth swimmer in Olympic history to strike a medley double, since Claudia Kolb did so in 1968, Tracy Caulkins in 1984, and Michelle Smith in 1996. Leading from start to finish, she established a sterling time of 2:10.68 to cut off Lin Li's eight-year Olympic record by a comfortable margin of 0.95 seconds. Romania's Beatrice Câșlaru, who shared the European title with Klochkova in the event, raced to silver with a national record of 2:12.57 on the rear of a dominant breaststroke leg. Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Cristina Teuscher took home the bronze in 2:13.32 to touch out Canada's Marianne Limpert (2:13.44) by 12-hundredths of a second.

Limpert was followed in fifth by her teammate Joanne Malar (2:13.70) and in sixth by Russia's Oxana Verevka (2:13.88). Previously competed for Brazil in Atlanta four years earlier, Gabrielle Rose finished seventh in 2:14.82, while Japan's Tomoko Hagiwara rounded out the field with an eighth-place time of 2:15.64.

Notable swimmers missed out the top 8 final, featuring China's Chen Yan, who recorded the second fastest time ever in the event's history but faded badly to place ninth (2:15.27); and Australia's home favorite Elli Overton, who finished her semifinal run with an eleventh-place effort (2:15.74).

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 19 September Final Yana Klochkova 2:10.68

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 7 Oxana Verevka 2:13.48 Q, NR 2 4 4 Beatrice Câșlaru 2:13.72 Q 3 5 4 Yana Klochkova 2:13.83 Q 4 4 5 Joanne Malar 2:13.92 Q 5 5 5 Cristina Teuscher 2:14.17 Q 6 4 3 Marianne Limpert 2:15.07 Q 7 3 4 Tomoko Hagiwara 2:15.16 Q 8 3 6 Gabrielle Rose 2:15.55 Q 9 5 2 Chen Yan 2:16.01 Q 10 5 1 Federica Biscia 2:16.09 Q, NR 11 4 6 Sue Rolph 2:16.43 Q 12 4 8 Yseult Gervy 2:16.51 Q 13 4 2 Zhan Shu 2:16.63 Q 14 5 3 Elli Overton 2:16.76 Q 15 3 3 Nicole Hetzer 2:16.98 Q 16 5 6 Sabine Herbst 2:17.18 Q 17 2 3 Hana Černá 2:17.58 NR 18 3 8 Kirsty Coventry 2:17.73 AF 19 2 5 Alenka Kejžar 2:18.33 NR 20 3 1 Helen Norfolk 2:18.90 21 5 8 Vered Borochovski 2:18.99 22 2 4 Carolyn Adel 2:19.17 23 4 1 Joscelin Yeo 2:19.18 24 5 7 Kathryn Evans 2:19.41 25 4 7 Anna Windsor 2:19.44 26 3 2 Yasuko Tajima 2:21.65 27 2 2 Nam Yoo-sun 2:22.53 28 1 3 Marina Mulyayeva 2:22.72 29 2 1 María Virginia Garrone 2:22.98 30 2 6 Aikaterini Sarakatsani 2:23.05 31 2 8 Sia Wai Yen 2:23.31 32 1 5 Alexandra Zertsalova 2:24.09 33 2 7 Smiljana Marinović 2:25.24 34 3 5 Diana Mocanu 2:29.58 35 1 4 Meritxell Sabaté 2:30.41 36 1 6 Fernanda Cuadra 2:38.25

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Beatrice Câșlaru 2:13.31 Q 2 5 Joanne Malar 2:13.59 Q 3 3 Marianne Limpert 2:13.90 Q 4 6 Gabrielle Rose 2:14.40 Q 5 2 Federica Biscia 2:15.71 NR 6 1 Elli Overton 2:15.74 7 7 Yseult Gervy 2:17.19 8 8 Sabine Herbst 2:17.51

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Yana Klochkova 2:13.08 Q 2 3 Cristina Teuscher 2:13.47 Q 3 4 Oxana Verevka 2:14.04 Q 4 6 Tomoko Hagiwara 2:15.09 Q 5 2 Chen Yan 2:15.27 6 7 Sue Rolph 2:15.98 7 1 Zhan Shu 2:16.58 8 8 Nicole Hetzer 2:18.08

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Yana Klochkova 2:10.68 , ER 5 Beatrice Câșlaru 2:12.57 NR 3 Cristina Teuscher 2:13.32 4 2 Marianne Limpert 2:13.44 5 6 Joanne Malar 2:13.70 6 7 Oxana Verevka 2:13.88 7 1 Gabrielle Rose 2:14.82 8 8 Tomoko Hagiwara 2:15.64

References

External links Official Olympic Report