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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney International Aquatic Centre
DateSeptember 21, 2000 (heats &
semifinals)
September 22, 2000 (final)
Competitors36 from 29 nations
Winning time2:08.16
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Diana Mocanu  Romania
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Roxana Maracineanu  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Miki Nakao  Japan
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Swimming at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 21–22 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.[1]

Diana Mocanu emerged as a newcomer on the international swimming, after effortlessly winning her second gold at these Games. She maintained a lead from start to finish, and posted a new Romanian record of 2:08.16, the third-fastest of all time, making her the fourth swimmer in Olympic history to strike a backstroke double, since Ulrike Richter did so in 1976, Rica Reinisch in 1980, and Krisztina Egerszegi, the three-time champion in the event, in 1992.[2][3] France's world champion Roxana Maracineanu, born with Romanian heritage, seized off an early lead on the first length, but fell short only for the silver in 2:10.25. Japan's Miki Nakao powered home with the bronze in 2:11.05 to hold off her fast-pacing teammate Tomoko Hagiwara (2:11.21) by 16-hundredths of a second.[4][5][6]

U.S. swimmer Amanda Adkins improved a lifetime best of 2:12.35 to move herself up from seventh to fifth spot on the final half, finishing ahead of Spain's Nina Zhivanevskaya (2:12.75), the bronze medalist in the 100 m backstroke five days earlier, by four-tenths of a second (0.40). Meanwhile, Germany's Antje Buschschulte (2:13.31) and Canada's Kelly Stefanyshyn (2:14.57) rounded out the finale.[6]

Records

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

World record  Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN) 2:06.62 Athens, Greece 25 August 1991 [7]
Olympic record  Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN) 2:07.06 Barcelona, Spain 31 July 1992 [7]

Results

Heats

[7]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 5 Diana Mocanu  Romania 2:09.21 Q, NR
2 5 3 Roxana Maracineanu  France 2:11.01 Q, NR
3 5 4 Nina Zhivanevskaya  Spain 2:11.60 Q
4 4 4 Miki Nakao  Japan 2:11.69 Q
5 3 4 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:12.15 Q
6 4 6 Lindsay Benko  United States 2:12.72 Q
7 4 3 Joanna Fargus  Great Britain 2:12.99 Q
8 5 5 Antje Buschschulte  Germany 2:13.42 Q
9 5 6 Amanda Adkins  United States 2:13.54 Q
10 5 7 Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark 2:13.61 Q, NR
11 3 3 Cathleen Rund  Germany 2:13.87 Q
12 4 5 Helen Don-Duncan  Great Britain 2:14.18 Q
13 3 6 Kelly Stefanyshyn  Canada 2:14.28 Q
14 3 2 Clementine Stoney  Australia 2:14.61 Q
15 3 7 Ivette María  Spain 2:14.78 Q
16 3 1 Charlene Wittstock  South Africa 2:15.10 Q
17 2 2 Nadiya Beshevli  Ukraine 2:15.86 NR
18 4 7 Zhan Shu  China 2:15.97
19 4 1 Irina Raevskaya  Russia 2:16.13
20 4 8 Helen Norfolk  New Zealand 2:16.22
21 2 4 Anu Koivisto  Finland 2:16.23
22 5 8 Yseult Gervy  Belgium 2:16.67
23 5 1 Aleksandra Miciul  Poland 2:16.71
24 4 2 Dyana Calub  Australia 2:17.05
25 2 5 Aikaterini Bliamou  Greece 2:18.07
26 2 3 Ana María González  Cuba 2:19.35
27 2 8 Jana Korbasová  Slovakia 2:19.37 NR
28 2 6 Annamária Kiss  Hungary 2:20.40
29 2 7 Şadan Derya Erke  Turkey 2:21.28
30 2 1 Chonlathorn Vorathamrong  Thailand 2:21.59
31 1 5 Marica Stražmešter  FR Yugoslavia 2:22.59
32 1 3 Kolbrún Yr Kristjánsdóttir  Iceland 2:24.33
33 1 6 Kuan Chia-hsien  Chinese Taipei 2:24.61
34 1 4 Petra Banović  Croatia 2:25.42
35 3 8 Choi Soo-min  South Korea 2:26.42
5 2 Yuliya Fomenko  Russia DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Roxana Maracineanu  France 2:11.93 Q
2 5 Miki Nakao  Japan 2:12.49 Q
3 6 Antje Buschschulte  Germany 2:12.64 Q
4 3 Lindsay Benko  United States 2:13.73
5 7 Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark 2:14.24
6 1 Clementine Stoney  Australia 2:14.25
7 8 Charlene Wittstock  South Africa 2:14.95
8 2 Helen Don-Duncan  Great Britain 2:14.97

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Diana Mocanu  Romania 2:09.64 Q
2 3 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:11.02 Q
3 5 Nina Zhivanevskaya  Spain 2:11.93 Q
4 2 Amanda Adkins  United States 2:12.97 Q
5 1 Kelly Stefanyshyn  Canada 2:13.39 Q
6 6 Joanna Fargus  Great Britain 2:13.57
7 7 Cathleen Rund  Germany 2:13.85
8 8 Ivette María  Spain 2:15.11

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Diana Mocanu  Romania 2:08.16 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Roxana Maracineanu  France 2:10.25 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Miki Nakao  Japan 2:11.05
4 5 Tomoko Hagiwara  Japan 2:11.21
5 1 Amanda Adkins  United States 2:12.35
6 6 Nina Zhivanevskaya  Spain 2:12.75
7 7 Antje Buschschulte  Germany 2:13.31
8 8 Kelly Stefanyshyn  Canada 2:14.57

References

  1. ^ "Swimming schedule". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2000. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. ^ Harris, Beth (22 September 2000). "Bennett Wins Gold in 800m Freestyle". ABC News. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  3. ^ Berlin, Peter (23 September 2000). "Tie in 50-Meter Freestyle Is Only the 2nd in the History of the Games : Ervin and Hall Strike Gold Together". New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Mocanu takes double". ABC News Australia. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Mocanu wins women's 200m Olympic backstroke gold". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b Whitten, Phillip (22 September 2000). "Olympic Day 7 Finals (50 Free, 800 Free, 200 Back, 100 Fly)". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  7. ^ a b c "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 302–303. Retrieved 18 June 2013.

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