Colonel William A. Phillips

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 23 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 22 July, with the final^[3] being held on 23 July.

Records

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

World record	Susie O'Neill (AUS)	2:05.81	Sydney, Australia	17 May 2000
Championship record	Liu Limin (CHN)	2:07.25	Rome, Italy	11 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
23 July	Final	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:06.73	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:07.91	Q
2	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:08.37	Q
3	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:10.75	Q
4	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:10.87	Q
5	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:11.07	Q
6	Mireia García	Spain	2:11.15	Q
7	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:11.27	Q
8	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:11.45	Q
9	Georgina Lee	United Kingdom	2:11.61	Q
10	Shelly Ripple	United States	2:11.76	Q
11	Elizabeth Van Welie	New Zealand	2:11.87	Q
12	Asako Kitada	Japan	2:12.03	Q
13	Petra Zahrl	Austria	2:12.25	Q
14	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:12.35	Q
15	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:12.94	Q
16	Irina Bespalova	Russia	2:13.65	Q
17	Vered Borochovski	Israel	2:14.24
18	Nicole Hunter	Australia	2:14.69
19	Ruan Yi	China	2:15.73
20	Miriana Bosevska	North Macedonia	2:18.24
21	Christel Bouvron	Singapore	2:19.27
22	Anna Kopatchenia	Belarus	2:19.33
23	Mariela Solange Yepez Pallo	Ecuador	2:19.81
24	Natalia Roubina	Cyprus	2:19.90
25	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:24.77
26	Xenavee Pangelinan	Northern Mariana Islands	2:25.48
27	Sung Yi-Chien	Chinese Taipei	2:29.41
–	Raquel Felgueiras	Portugal	DSQ
–	Otylia Yedrzejczak	Poland	DSQ
–	Natallia Baranouskaya	Belarus	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:08.95	Q
2	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:09.20	Q
3	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:09.79	Q
4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:09.91	Q
5	Mireia García	Spain	2:09.97	Q
6	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:10.43	Q
7	Shelly Ripple	United States	2:10.62	Q
8	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:10.65	Q
9	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:11.03
10	Georgina Lee	United Kingdom	2:11.07
11	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:11.68
12	Petra Zahrl	Austria	2:12.09
13	Irina Bespalova	Russia	2:12.58
14	Asako Kitada	Japan	2:13.05
15	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:13.10
16	Elizabeth Van Welie	New Zealand	2:13.29

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:06.73	CR
	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:06.97
	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:08.52
4	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:09.08
5	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:09.57
6	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:10.11
7	Mireia García	Spain	2:10.42
8	Shelly Ripple	United States	2:11.09

References