Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

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Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue London Aquatics Centre
Date July 31, 2012 (heats &
semifinals)
August 1, 2012 (final)
Competitors 28 from 21 nations
Winning time 2:04.06 OR
Medalists
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1st Jiao Liuyang  China
2nd Mireia Belmonte Garcia  Spain
3rd Natsumi Hoshi  Japan
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Swimming at the
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Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.[1]

China's Jiao Liuyang stormed home on the final stretch to upgrade her silver from Beijing four years earlier with an Olympic title in the event. She produced a striking effort on the last lap to come from behind and demolish the field with a gold-medal time and a new Olympic record in 2:04.06, shaving 0.12 seconds off the standard set by teammate Liu Zige.[2][3] Meanwhile, Mireia Belmonte García made an Olympic milestone to become Spain's first ever female medalist and fourth overall in swimming, as she brought home the silver in 2:05.25, the ninth-fastest of all time.[4][5] Japan's Natsumi Hoshi added a sixth bronze to her swimming squad at these Games, in a sterling time of 2:05.48.[6][7]

Leading through the prelims and the semifinals, U.S. swimmer Kathleen Hersey finished off the podium with a fourth-place time in 2:05.78, a full second ahead of her teammate Cammile Adams (2:06.78).[8] Great Britain's Jemma Lowe (2:06.80), Hungary's Zsuzsanna Jakabos (2:07.33) and defending champion Liu Zige (2:07.77) rounded out the field.[7][9]

Notable swimmers missed the final roster featuring Australia's Jessicah Schipper, a former world record holder; and Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, a 2004 Olympic champion, both of whom placed thirteenth (2:08.21) and sixteenth (2:13.09) respectively in the semifinals.[10]

Records

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

World record  Liu Zige (CHN) 2:01.81 Jinan, China 21 October 2009 [11][12]
Olympic record  Liu Zige (CHN) 2:04.18 Beijing, China 14 August 2008 [13]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 1 Final Jiao Liuyang  China 2:04.06 OR

Results

Heats

[14]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 6 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:06.41 Q
2 3 4 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:07.15 Q
3 4 5 Jemma Lowe  Great Britain 2:07.64 Q
4 3 6 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:07.75 Q
5 4 3 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 2:07.79 Q
6 2 4 Natsumi Hoshi  Japan 2:08.04 Q
7 2 6 Judit Ignacio Sorribes  Spain 2:08.14 Q
8 3 3 Cammile Adams  United States 2:08.18 Q
9 2 5 Mireia Belmonte García  Spain 2:08.19 Q
10 2 7 Choi Hye-Ra  South Korea 2:08.45 Q
11 4 4 Liu Zige  China 2:08.72 Q
12 2 3 Jessicah Schipper  Australia 2:08.74 Q
13 3 2 Martina Granström  Sweden 2:08.94 Q
14 4 1 Anja Klinar  Slovenia 2:09.24 Q
15 2 2 Audrey Lacroix  Canada 2:09.25 Q
16 4 2 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 2:09.33 Q
17 3 5 Ellen Gandy  Great Britain 2:09.92
18 1 5 Ingvild Snildal  Norway 2:10.99 NR
19 4 7 Katerine Savard  Canada 2:11.05
20 3 7 Samantha Hamill  Australia 2:11.07
21 3 8 Denisa Smolenová  Slovakia 2:11.10
22 1 3 Andreina Pinto  Venezuela 2:11.23 NR
23 4 8 Rita Medrano  Mexico 2:11.42
24 1 4 Sara Oliveira  Portugal 2:11.54
25 2 1 Martina van Berkel  Switzerland 2:12.25
26 3 1 Joanna Melo  Brazil 2:13.17
27 2 8 Emilia Pikkarainen  Finland 2:13.81
28 1 6 Cheng Wan-Jung  Chinese Taipei 2:14.29

Semifinals

[15]

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:06.10 Q
2 3 Natsumi Hoshi  Japan 2:06.37 Q
3 6 Cammile Adams  United States 2:07.33 Q
4 5 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 2:07.69
5 1 Anja Klinar  Slovenia 2:07.84
6 7 Jessicah Schipper  Australia 2:08.21
7 2 Choi Hye-Ra  South Korea 2:08.32
8 8 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 2:13.09

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:05.90 Q
2 2 Mireia Belmonte García  Spain 2:06.62 Q
3 3 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 2:06.82 Q
4 7 Liu Zige  China 2:06.99 Q
5 5 Jemma Lowe  Great Britain 2:07.37 Q
6 1 Martina Granström  Sweden 2:07.83 NR
7 8 Audrey Lacroix  Canada 2:08.00
8 6 Judit Ignacio Sorribes  Spain 2:08.96

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 5 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:04.06 OR
2nd 6 Mireia Belmonte García  Spain 2:05.25 NR
3rd 3 Natsumi Hoshi  Japan 2:05.48
4 4 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:05.78
5 1 Cammile Adams  United States 2:06.78
6 8 Jemma Lowe  Great Britain 2:06.80
7 2 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 2:07.33
8 7 Liu Zige  China 2:07.77

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