Swimming_at_the_1973_World_Aquatics_Championships_–_Women's_200_metre_freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 5, 1973
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:04.999
Medalists
	1975 →

Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

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Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.

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Records show that prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

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The following records were established during the competition:

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World record	Shane Gould (AUS)	2:03.56	Munich, West Germany	1 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 September	Heat	Lesley Allardice	United Kingdom	2:12.946	CR
5 September	Heat	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	CR
5 September	Heat	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	CR
5 September	Heat	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	CR
5 September	Final	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	Q, CR
2	5	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:07.753	Q
3	3	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	Q, CR
4	2	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	Q, CR
5	5	-	Virginia Rickard	Australia	2:09.936	Q, PB^[2]
6	2	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.973	Q
7	5	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.778	Q
8	2	-	Veronica Stel	Netherlands	2:10.878	Q
9	4	-	Suzy Anderson	Australia	2:11.179
10	5	-	Guylaine Berger	France	2:11.400
11	3	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:11.506
12	3	-	Angela Steinbach	West Germany	2:12.438
13	1	-	Lesley Allardice	Great Britain	2:12.946	CR
14	5	-	Tatyana Zolotnitskaya	Soviet Union	2:13.141
15	4	-	Maria Guimarães	Brazil	2:14.218
16	1	-	Brenda Holmes	Canada	2:14.431
17	4	-	Federica Stabilini	Italy	2:14.496
18	5	-	Lucy Burle	Brazil	2:14.987
19	1	-	Marie Sundeborg	Sweden	2:15.506
20	1	-	Ileana Morales	Venezuela	2:15.518
21	4	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	2:15.940
22	3	-	Chantal Schertz	France	2:16.558
23	1	-	Cathy Whiting	New Zealand	2:17.016
24	3	-	Elżbieta Pilawska	Poland	2:17.716
25	2	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	2:19.384
26	4	-	María Saavedra	Colombia	2:20.064
27	4	-	Marianela Huen	Venezuela	2:21.916
28	1	-	Loida Moreda	Puerto Rico	2:23.097
29	5	-	Leslie Thompson	Puerto Rico	2:23.220
30	2	-	Eva Tomandl	Austria	2:24.075
31	4	-	B. Garcia	Argentina	2:24.328
32	3	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	2:25.432
33	3	-	Edit Kovács	Hungary	2:25.470
34	2	-	H. Nastaren	Iran	2:45.589

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR
	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:05.332
	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:05.525
4	-	Virginia Rickard	Australia	2:07.889	PB
5	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:08.895
6	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.331
7	-	Veronica Stel	Netherlands	2:09.412
8	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.587

Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle