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

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 2 and 3 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	2 August 2024 (Heats and Semis) 3 August 2024 (Final)
Competitors	34 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:06.56 OR
Medalists
Summer McIntosh  Canada Kate Douglass  United States Kaylee McKeown  Australia
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Records

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

World record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	3 August 2015	[1]
Olympic record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.58	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	9 August 2016	[2][3]

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August	Final	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:06.56	OR

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[4][5]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[4]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[6]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Women's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m individual medley	2:11.47	2:12.13

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

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
2 August 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
3 August 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:09.90	Q
2	3	5	Yu Yiting	China	2:10.28	Q
3	5	5	Alexandra Walsh	United States	2:10.48	Q
4	4	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:10.63	Q
5	4	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:10.70	Q
6	3	6	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:10.75	Q
7	3	3	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:10.95	Q
8	5	2	Ye Shiwen	China	2:10.96	Q
9	5	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:11.26	Q
10	3	2	Charlotte Bonnet	France	2:11.47	Q
11	5	3	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.53	Q
12	3	1	Emma Carrasco	Spain	2:11.54	Q
13	4	2	Shiho Matsumoto	Japan	2:11.67	Q
14	5	6	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:11.70	Q
15	5	1	Ellen Walshe	Ireland	2:11.81	Q
16	4	1	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	2:11.96	Q
17	5	7	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:12.42
18	4	6	Sara Franceschi	Italy	2:12.88
18	4	7	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:12.88
20	4	3	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	2:13.21
21	2	5	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:13.32
22	4	8	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	2:13.47
23	3	8	Tamara Potocká	Slovakia	2:14.20
24	2	4	Lena Kreundl	Austria	2:15.04
25	3	7	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:15.16
26	2	6	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:15.79
27	2	1	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	2:17.18
28	5	8	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:17.53
29	2	2	McKenna DeBever	Peru	2:17.61
30	2	7	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:18.00
31	1	4	Azzahra Permatahani	Indonesia	2:20.51
32	1	5	Valerie Tarazi	Palestine	2:20.56
33	1	3	Jayla Pina	Cape Verde	2:24.51
	2	3	Han An-chi	Chinese Taipei	DSQ

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Alexandra Walsh	United States	2:07.45	Q
2	2	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:08.30	Q
3	2	3	Kate Douglass	United States	2:08.59	Q
4	2	6	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:09.64	Q
5	1	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:09.65	Q
6	1	4	Yu Yiting	China	2:09.74	Q
7	2	2	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.97	Q
8	1	3	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:10.16	Q
9	2	7	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.32
10	1	6	Ye Shiwen	China	2:10.45
11	1	8	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	2:10.67	NR
12	1	1	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:10.94
13	2	8	Ellen Walshe	Ireland	2:11.35
14	2	1	Shiho Matsumoto	Japan	2:11.85
15	1	7	Emma Carrasco	Spain	2:12.25
16	1	2	Charlotte Bonnet	France	2:12.80

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:06.56	OR, WJ, NR
	3	Kate Douglass	United States	2:06.92
	1	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.08
4	7	Yu Yiting	China	2:08.49
5	6	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:09.51
6	2	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:09.74
–	8	Ella Ramsay	Australia	DNS
	4	Alexandra Walsh	United States	DSQ	Recorded time of 2:07.06 before DSQ

References

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3. "'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu wins 200 IM, third gold of Rio Games". Olympics. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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