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

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	1 August 2024 (heats and semifinals) 2 August 2024 (final)
Competitors	27 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:03.73
Medalists
Kaylee McKeown  Australia Regan Smith  United States Kylie Masse  Canada

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1]

Records

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

World record	Kaylee McKeown (AUS)	2:03.14	Sydney, Australia	10 March 2023
Olympic record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.06	London, United Kingdom	3 August 2012

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
2 August	Final	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.73	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 2:10.39. World Aquatics then filled the rest of the event places with 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] In total, 26 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, while 2 athletes qualified through universality places.[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)[1]

Date	Time	Round
1 August 2024	11:00	Heats
	21:19	Semifinals
2 August 2024	20:36	Final

Results

Heats

Results[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Peng Xuwei	China	2:08.29	Q
2	2	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.54	Q
3	4	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.89	Q
4	4	5	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:09.00	Q
5	2	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:09.57	Q
6	3	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:09.61	Q
7	3	7	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:09.64	Q
8	4	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:09.66	Q
9	2	6	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.72	Q
10	4	8	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:09.88	Q
11	4	3	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:09.92	Q
12	4	2	Carmen Weiler	Spain	2:10.09	Q
13	3	6	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.29	Q
14	4	1	Pauline Mahieu	France	2:10.30	Q
15	2	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.40	Q
16	4	7	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.51	Q
17	2	5	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:10.53
18	2	1	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:10.71
19	3	2	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:11.26
20	3	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:11.60
21	2	8	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:12.15
22	3	1	Regan Rathwell	Canada	2:12.21
23	1	5	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.20
24	3	8	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:13.39
25	2	2	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:14.57
26	1	4	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:17.32
27	1	3	Anishta Teeluck	Mauritius	2:18.67

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	1	5	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:07.32	Q
2	2	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:07.57	Q
3	2	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:07.84	Q
4	2	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:07.86	Q
5	1	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:07.92	Q
6	1	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:08.14	Q
7	2	7	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:08.52	Q
8	2	6	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:08.79	Q
9	1	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:09.38
10	2	2	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.41
11	1	1	Pauline Mahieu	France	2:09.56
12	1	8	Dora Molnar	Hungary	2:09.83
13	1	7	Carmen Weiler	Spain	2:09.99
14	2	8	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.63
15	1	2	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:11.86
16	2	1	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.96

Final

Results[6]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.73	OR
	7	Regan Smith	United States	2:04.26
	2	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:05.57
4	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.61
5	1	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:07.53
6	6	Peng Xuwei	China	2:07.96
7	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:08.16
8	8	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:10.23

Metrics[7]

Name	50 metre split	100 metre split	150 metre split	Time	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Kaylee McKeown	00:29.17	01:00.52	01:31.88	2:03.73	43.5
Regan Smith	00:29.02	00:59.90	01:31.70	2:04.26	47.5
Kylie Masse	00:28.95	01:00.37	01:32.70	2:05.57	43.6
Phoebe Bacon	00:29.47	01:00.77	01:32.63	2:05.61	38.0
Katie Shanahan	00:30.18	01:02.11	01:34.97	2:07.53	40.1
Peng Xuwei	00:29.72	01:01.47	01:34.48	2:07.96	44.9
Honey Osrin	00:29.91	01:02.29	01:34.70	2:08.16	41.3
Anastasiya Shkurdai	00:30.34	01:02.79	01:36.11	2:10.23	40.2

References

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7. Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-12-17.