Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m butterfly (women)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meter butterfly
gender	Women
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	28 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	July 31/1. August 2012

The contest over 200 meters butterfly women at the 2012 Olympics in London was born on 31 July and 1 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 28 athletes took part.

There were four preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals, which were held on the same day. The eight fastest starters of both races qualified here for the final on the next day.

Abbreviations:
WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record
ER = European record , NAR = North American record , SAR = South American record, ASR = Asian record, AFR = African record, OZR = Oceania record
PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Liu Zige ( People's Republic of China )	2: 01.81 min	Jinan , People's Republic of China	October 21, 2009
Olympic record		2: 04.18 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 14, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Liu Zige ( People's Republic of China )	2: 04.18 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Jiao Liuyang ( People's Republic of China )	2: 05.55 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Katinka Hosszú ( Hungary )	2: 07.28 min	Debrecen 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	2: 10.99 min	NO
2	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2: 11.23 min	NO
3	Sara Oliveira	Portugal	2: 11.54 min
4th	Cheng Wan-young	Chinese Taipei	2: 14.29 min

Forward 2

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2: 08.04 min
2	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2: 08.14 min
3	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2: 08.19 min
4th	Choi Hye-ra	South Korea	2: 08.45 min
5	Jessica Schipper	Australia	2: 08.74 min
6th	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2: 09.25 min
7th	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2: 12.25 min
8th	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	2: 13.81 min

Forward 3

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jiao Liuyang	People's Republic of China	2: 07.15 min
2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2: 07.75 min
3	Cammile Adams	United States	2: 08.18 min
4th	Martina Granström	Sweden	2: 08.94 min
5	Ellen Gandy	United Kingdom	2: 09.92 min
6th	Samantha Hamill	Australia	2: 11.07 min
7th	Denisa Smolenová	Slovakia	2: 11.10 min
8th	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2: 13.17 min

Forward 4

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2: 06.41 min
2	Jemma Lowe	United Kingdom	2: 07.64 min
2	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2: 07.79 min
4th	Liu Zige	People's Republic of China	2: 08.72 min
5	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2: 09.24 min
6th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2: 09.33 min
7th	Katerine Savard	Canada	2: 11.05 min
8th	Rita Medrano	Mexico	2: 11.42 min

Semifinals

Run 1

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jiao Liuyang	People's Republic of China	2: 06.10 min
2	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2: 06.37 min
3	Cammile Adams	United States	2: 07.33 min
4th	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2: 07.69 min
5	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2: 07.84 min
6th	Jessica Schipper	Australia	2: 08.21 min
7th	Choi Hye-ra	South Korea	2: 08.32 min
8th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2: 13.09 min

Run 2

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2: 05.90 min
2	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2: 06.62 min
3	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2: 06.82 min
4th	Liu Zige	People's Republic of China	2: 06.99 min
5	Jemma Lowe	United Kingdom	2: 07.37 min
6th	Martina Granström	Sweden	2: 07.83 min	NO
7th	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2: 08.00 min
8th	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2: 08.96 min

final

Mireia Belmonte swims the first medal of a Spanish swimmer. At the same time, its silver medal means Spain's first medal in this discipline.
The time of the winner Jiao Liuyang is the third fastest time ever swum, that of the Spaniard Belmonte the ninth fastest.
For the first time, all finalists stayed below 2:08 minutes.

August 1, 2012, 8:12 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jiao Liuyang	People's Republic of China	2: 04.06 min	OR
2	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2: 05.25 min	NO
3	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2: 05.48 min
4th	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2: 05.78 min
5	Cammile Adams	United States	2: 06.78 min
6th	Jemma Lowe	United Kingdom	2: 6.80 min
7th	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2: 07.33 min
8th	Liu Zige	People's Republic of China	2: 07.77 min

Picture gallery

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  Mireia Belmonte (ESP) swims with silver, the first medal in Spain in this discipline and the first ever swimming medal for a Spanish woman.

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  Birgit Joanna Maranhão (BRA) fails in the preliminary

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  Zsuzsanna Jakabos (HUN), here at the 2010 Short Course World Championships (center), is seventh in the final; Anja Klinar (SLO) (right) is eliminated in the semifinals

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m butterfly in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence