| Women's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Sydney International Aquatic Centre | ||||||||||||
| Date | September 21, 2000 (heats & semifinals) September 22, 2000 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 29 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:08.16 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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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
| 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | %3b_Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_(2003%e2%80%932006).svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 4 | Diana Mocanu | Romania | 2:08.16 | NR |
 | 3 | Roxana Maracineanu | France | 2:10.25 | NR |
 | 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
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- ^ Harris, Beth (22 September 2000). "Bennett Wins Gold in 800m Freestyle". ABC News. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Mocanu takes double". ABC News Australia. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Mocanu wins women's 200m Olympic backstroke gold". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 302–303. Retrieved 18 June 2013.