Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 5, 1973
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:04.999
Medalists
	1975 →

Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.

Records show that prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Shane Gould (AUS)	2:03.56	Munich, West Germany	1 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 September	Heat	Lesley Allardice	United Kingdom	2:12.946	CR
5 September	Heat	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	CR
5 September	Heat	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	CR
5 September	Heat	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	CR
5 September	Final	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR

Results

34 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	Q, CR
2	5	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:07.753	Q
3	3	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	Q, CR
4	2	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	Q, CR
5	5	-	Virginia Rickard	Australia	2:09.936	Q, PB^[2]
6	2	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.973	Q
7	5	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.778	Q
8	2	-	Veronica Stel	Netherlands	2:10.878	Q
9	4	-	Suzy Anderson	Australia	2:11.179
10	5	-	Guylaine Berger	France	2:11.400
11	3	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:11.506
12	3	-	Angela Steinbach	West Germany	2:12.438
13	1	-	Lesley Allardice	Great Britain	2:12.946	CR
14	5	-	Tatyana Zolotnitskaya	Soviet Union	2:13.141
15	4	-	Maria Guimarães	Brazil	2:14.218
16	1	-	Brenda Holmes	Canada	2:14.431
17	4	-	Federica Stabilini	Italy	2:14.496
18	5	-	Lucy Burle	Brazil	2:14.987
19	1	-	Marie Sundeborg	Sweden	2:15.506
20	1	-	Ileana Morales	Venezuela	2:15.518
21	4	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	2:15.940
22	3	-	Chantal Schertz	France	2:16.558
23	1	-	Cathy Whiting	New Zealand	2:17.016
24	3	-	Elżbieta Pilawska	Poland	2:17.716
25	2	-	Eleni Avlanitou	Greece	2:19.384
26	4	-	María Saavedra	Colombia	2:20.064
27	4	-	Marianela Huen	Venezuela	2:21.916
28	1	-	Loida Moreda	Puerto Rico	2:23.097
29	5	-	Leslie Thompson	Puerto Rico	2:23.220
30	2	-	Eva Tomandl	Austria	2:24.075
31	4	-	B. Garcia	Argentina	2:24.328
32	3	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	2:25.432
33	3	-	Edit Kovács	Hungary	2:25.470
34	2	-	H. Nastaren	Iran	2:45.589

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR
	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:05.332
	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:05.525
4	-	Virginia Rickard	Australia	2:07.889	PB
5	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:08.895
6	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.331
7	-	Veronica Stel	Netherlands	2:09.412
8	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.587

^ "For the Record" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
^ "Swim team 'baby' lifts Aust hopes". The Sydney Morning Herald. John Fairfax Holdings. AAP-Reuters. September 6, 1973. p. 19.