Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 19–20 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.^[1]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date	September 19, 2000 (heats & semifinals) September 20, 2000 (final)
Competitors	36 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:05.88 OR
Medalists
Misty Hyman  United States Susie O'Neill  Australia Petria Thomas  Australia
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U.S. swimmer Misty Hyman stunned Australia's defending champion Susie O'Neill to claim the Olympic title in front of a raucous home crowd. Seen as almost a lock victory for O'Neill, Hyman seized off a powerful lead and held a full body length over the champion at the 150-metre turn to maintain her relentless pace and touch the wall first in one of the oldest Olympic records in the book. She improved a sterling lifetime best of 2:05.88 to erase Mary T. Meagher's 1984 record by 1.02 seconds, but her time was just a 0.07-margin closer to O'Neill's world record.^[2][3] In a signature race, O'Neill ended up with only a silver in 2:06.58, adding it to her gold from Atlanta in 1996 and bronze from Barcelona in 1992. Meanwhile, Petria Thomas took home the bronze in 2:07.12, handing the entire medal lock for the Aussies with a two–three finish.^[4][5][6]

Danish star Mette Jacobsen, competing in her fourth Olympics, finished off the podium by over a second in 2:08.24, while Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak posted a fifth-place time of 2:08.48. Racing next to her teammate Hyman in lane seven, Kaitlin Sandeno picked up a sixth spot with a time of 2:08.81.^[7] Japanese duo Yuko Nakanishi (2:09.66) and Maki Mita (2:10.72) closed out the field.^[6]

Records

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

World record	Susie O'Neill (AUS)	2:05.81	Sydney, Australia	17 May 2000	[8]
Olympic record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:06.90	Los Angeles, United States	4 August 1984	[8]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
20 September	Final	Misty Hyman	United States	2:05.88	OR

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Misty Hyman	United States	2:07.87	Q
2	5	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:07.97	Q
3	4	4	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:08.70	Q
	4	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland		Q
5	3	4	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:09.30	Q
6	5	5	Maki Mita	Japan	2:09.85	Q
7	5	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:09.92	Q
8	3	3	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:10.22	Q
9	2	3	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:10.78	Q, NR
10	5	6	Mireia García	Spain	2:10.96	Q
11	3	2	Georgina Lee	Great Britain	2:11.09	Q
12	4	2	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:11.32	Q
13	5	2	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:11.35	Q
14	4	7	Mandy Loots	South Africa	2:11.38	Q, AF
15	4	6	Margaretha Pedder	Great Britain	2:11.59	Q
16	3	8	Elizabeth van Welie	New Zealand	2:11.62	Q, NR
17	3	7	Jen Button	Canada	2:11.74
18	3	1	Yekaterina Vinogradova	Russia	2:11.94
19	4	1	Liu Limin	China	2:12.32
20	2	1	Mirjana Boševska	Macedonia	2:12.59	NR
21	5	1	Liu Yin	China	2:12.79
22	4	3	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:12.86
23	2	4	Petra Zahrl	Austria	2:13.29	NR
24	2	5	Zhanna Lozumyrska	Ukraine	2:14.47
25	5	7	María Peláez	Spain	2:14.66
26	5	8	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	2:14.87
27	2	6	Raquel Felgueiras	Portugal	2:15.19
28	3	6	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	2:15.68
29	4	8	Hsieh Shu-tzu	Chinese Taipei	2:16.23
30	2	7	Natalia Roubina	Cyprus	2:17.01
31	2	2	Zampia Melachroinou	Greece	2:17.60
32	2	8	Christel Bouvron	Singapore	2:17.62
33	1	3	Chan Wing Suet	Hong Kong	2:19.86
34	1	5	Tinka Dančević	Croatia	2:21.02
35	1	4	Ana Carolina Aguilera	Argentina	2:21.23
36	1	6	Hana Majaj	Jordan	2:31.78

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:07.57	Q
2	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:07.63	Q
3	3	Maki Mita	Japan	2:09.88	Q
4	6	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:09.89	Q
5	2	Mireia García	Spain	2:10.24
6	1	Mandy Loots	South Africa	2:10.58	AF
7	8	Elizabeth van Welie	New Zealand	2:11.68
8	7	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:11.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:07.81	Q, EU
2	4	Misty Hyman	United States	2:07.96	Q
3	3	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:08.11	Q, NR
4	6	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:09.40	Q
5	7	Georgina Lee	Great Britain	2:10.33	NR
6	8	Margaretha Pedder	Great Britain	2:10.49
7	2	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:10.78	=NR
8	1	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:11.07

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Misty Hyman	United States	2:05.88	OR*
	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:06.58
	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:07.12
4	2	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:08.24
5	3	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:08.48
6	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:08.81
7	8	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:09.66
8	1	Maki Mita	Japan	2:10.72

* Also an American record.

References

1. "Swimming schedule". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2000. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
2. "Hyman, Van den Hoogenband win gold". ESPN. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
3. Fitzpatrick, Frank (20 September 2000). "Misty Hops Up A Golden Mountain Hyman Tops Aussie Icon In Butterfly". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
4. "Misty day: American Hyman upsets O'Neill in 200 butterfly". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 20 September 2000. Archived from the original on April 29, 2001. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
5. Longman, Jere (20 September 2000). "Sydney 2000: Swimming; Hyman, in Surprise, Joins No. 1 van den Hoogenband". New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
6. Whitten, Phillip (20 September 2000). "Olympic Day 5 Finals (200 Breast, 100 Free, 200 Fly, 800 Free Relay)". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
7. "Thompson Wins Seventh Swimming Gold". ABC News. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
8. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Heats" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 235–236. Retrieved 21 June 2013.

External links

• Official Olympic Report