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

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 28 and 29 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1] This will be the fifteenth running of the event since the first in 1968.

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	31 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:53.27 OR
Medalists
Mollie O'Callaghan  Australia Ariarne Titmus  Australia Siobhán Haughey  Hong Kong
← 2020 2028 →

Records

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

World record	Ariarne Titmus (AUS)	1:52.23	Brisbane, Australia	12 June 2024
Olympic record	Ariarne Titmus (AUS)	1:53.50	Tokyo, Japan	28 July 2021

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
29 July	Final	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:53.27	OR

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).^[2] For this event, the OQT was 1:57.26. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.^[2][3] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 1:57.85 for this event.^[2] In total, 16 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 14 athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.^[3]

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 Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
28 July 2024	12:00	Heats
	21:50	Semifinals
29 July 2024	21:53	Final

Results

Heats

31 swimmers, representing 27 nations, entered the event.

Results^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:55.79	Q
2	4	3	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:56.21	Q
3	4	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:56.23	Q
4	2	3	Li Bingjie	China	1:56.28	Q
5	2	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:56.38	Q
6	2	5	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:56.48	Q
7	3	3	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:56.54	Q
8	2	6	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	1:56.65	Q
9	4	5	Yang Junxuan	China	1:56.83	Q
10	3	5	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:57.02	Q
11	4	6	Erin Gemmell	United States	1:57.23	Q
12	3	2	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:57.50	Q
13	2	2	Lilla Minna Ábrahám	Hungary	1:57.77	Q
14	4	2	Aimee Canny	South Africa	1:57.81	Q
15	3	7	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	1:58.32	Q
16	4	1	Rebecca Diaconescu	Romania	1:59.29	Q
17	4	7	Julia Mrozinski	Germany	1:59.87
18	2	1	Enkhkhuslen Batbayar	Mongolia	1:59.94
19	2	7	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:00.38
20	3	1	María Yegres	Venezuela	2:00.66
21	4	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:03.38
22	3	8	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:04.88
23	1	4	Dhinidhi Desinghu	India	2:06.96
24	2	8	Lojine Abdalla Salah	Egypt	2:07.19
25	1	5	Ariana Southa Dirkzwager	Laos	2:07.22
26	1	3	Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan	2:10.69
27	1	6	Kaltra Meca	Albania	2:12.21
28	1	7	Maha Alshehhi	United Arab Emirates	2:17.17
29	1	1	Mashael Meshari A Alayed	Saudi Arabia	2:19.61
30	1	2	Duana Lama	Nepal	2:20.74
	3	6	Nikolett Pádár	Hungary	DSQ

Semifinals

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

Results^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:54.64	Q
2	2	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:54.70	Q
3	1	3	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:55.24	Q
4	2	3	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:55.51	Q
5	2	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.90	Q
6	1	2	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:56.06	Q
7	2	6	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:56.31	Q
8	1	4	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:56.37	Q
9	2	7	Erin Gemmell	United States	1:56.46
10	1	5	Li Bingjie	China	1:56.56
11	1	6	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	1:56.89
12	1	1	Aimee Canny	South Africa	1:57.34
13	1	7	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:57.50
14	2	1	Lilla Minna Ábrahám	Hungary	1:57.78
15	2	8	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	1:58.78
16	1	8	Rebecca Diaconescu	Romania	1:59.58

Final

Results^[6]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:53.27	OR
	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:53.81
	6	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:54.55
4	8	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	1:55.29
5	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.38
6	7	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:55.47
7	1	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:55.59
8	3	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:56.60

Statistics^[7]

Name	50 metre split	100 metre split	150 metre split	Time	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Mollie O'Callaghan	00:27.01	00:56.07	01:25.29	1:53.27	41.8
Ariarne Titmus	00:27.00	00:55.88	01:25.17	1:53.81	46.9
Siobhán Haughey	00:26.72	00:55.70	01:24.97	1:54.55	45.4
Mary-Sophie Harvey	00:27.49	00:56.64	01:26.05	1:55.29	44.6
Yang Junxuan	00:26.87	00:56.05	01:25.88	1:55.38	46.0
Barbora Seemanová	00:26.88	00:55.97	01:25.73	1:55.47	43.7
Erika Fairweather	00:27.24	00:56.66	01:26.31	1:55.59	45.2
Claire Weinstein	00:27.42	00:56.74	01:26.45	1:56.60	43.7

References

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