Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Olympic sporting event

Part of	swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Competition class	women's 200 metre breaststroke
Sport	swimming
Country	France
Ein location	Paris La Défense Arena
Dey follow	swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre breaststroke
Tym dem start	31 July 2024
End tym	1 August 2024
Participant	Kate Douglass, Tatjana Smith, Tes Schouten
Winner	Kate Douglass, Tatjana Smith, Tes Schouten

Na dem hold de women's 200 metre breaststroke event for de 2024 Summer Olympics from 31 July to 1 August 2024 for de Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

Prior to dis competition, na de existing world den Olympic records be as follows:

World record	Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS)	2:17.55	Kazan, Russia	21 April 2023
Olympic record	Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA)	2:18.95	Tokyo, Japan	30 July 2021

Qualification

National Olympic Committee (NOC) fi enter maximum of two qualified athletes insyd each individual event, buh only if both of dem attain de Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event fi potentially enter if dem meet de Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), anaa if de total quota of 852 athletes no be targeted. NOCs sanso fi permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under Universality place since dem get no swimmers wey dey attain either of de standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Dey follow de end of de qualification window, World Aquatics go assess de number of swimmers wey achieve de OQT, de number of relay-only swimmers, den de number of Universality places, before dem invite those plus OCT make dem fulfill de total quota of 852. Additionally, dem go distribute OCT places by event according to de position of de World Aquatics Rankings during de qualifying deadline.

Time standards

Dem for obtain de qualifying time standards for de 2023 den 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships den selection trials, den various international meets dem approve by World Aquatics insyd de period between 1 March 2023 den 23 June 2024.

De table wey dey follow dey outline de qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for dis event:

Women's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m breaststroke	2:23.91	2:24.63

* OQTs dey correspond to de time dem achieve by fourteenth-place swimmer for ein respective preliminary heat of each event for de previous Games.

ª Secof de fourteenth-place swimmer achieve standard slower dan de OQT insyd Tokyo 2020, de OQT dem use for de previous Games go remain constant.

^ Dem dey derive OCTs by adding 0.5% of de OQT standard.

Competition format

De competition dey consist of three rounds: heats, semifinals, den final. De swimmers plus de best 16 times insyd de heats advance go de semifinals. De swimmers plus de best 8 times insyd de semifinals advance go de final. Dem dey use swim-offs as necessary make dem break ties for advancement to de next round.

Schedule

All times be Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
31 July 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
1 August 2024	21:11	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	2:21.57	Q
2	2	4	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:23.08	Q
3	3	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:23.44	Q
4	3	3	Ye Shiwen	China	2:23.67	Q
5	1	6	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:23.85	Q
6	3	2	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:23.80	Q
7	1	5	Mona McSharry	Ireland	2:23.98	Q
8	2	3	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:24.38	Q
9	2	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.52	Q
10	1	3	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:24.59	Q
11	3	5	Lilly King	United States	2:24.91	Q
12	2	2	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:25.11	Q
13	2	6	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:25.45	Q
14	3	6	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:25.61	Q
15	3	7	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.85	Q
16	1	2	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:26.28	Q
17	2	1	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	2:26.39
18	2	8	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	2:26.55
19	2	5	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:27.81
20	1	1	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:28.10
21	1	7	Alina Zmushka	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:28.19
22	3	1	Letitia Sim	Singapore	2:29.46
23	3	8	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	2:30.68

Semifinals

De swimmers plus de best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to de final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Kate Douglass	United States	2:19.74	Q
2	2	4	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	2:19.94	Q
3	1	4	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:22.74	Q
4	1	3	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:22.87	Q
5	1	5	Ye Shiwen	China	2:23.13	Q
6	2	7	Lilly King	United States	2:23.25	Q
7	1	2	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:23.42	Q
8	2	3	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:23.54	Q
9	2	1	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:24.03
10	1	6	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:24.05
11	2	6	Mona McSharry	Ireland	2:24.48
12	1	1	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:24.56
13	1	7	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:24.82
14	2	8	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.39
15	1	8	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:25.77
16	2	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.22

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:19.24	AM
2	5	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	2:19.60
3	3	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:21.05
4	8	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:22.54
5	1	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:23.75
6	2	Ye Shiwen	China	2:24.31
7	6	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:24.46
8	7	Lilly King	United States	2:25.91

Notes

1. ^ Na Tatjana Schoenmaker be de maiden name of Tatjana Smith.

References

Olympic champions in women's 200 m breaststroke

1924:  Lucy Morton (GBR) 1928:  Hilde Schrader (GER) 1932:  Clare Dennis (AUS) 1936:  Hideko Maehata (JPN) 1948:  Nel van Vliet (NED) 1952:  Éva Székely (HUN) 1956:  Ursula Happe (EUA) 1960:  Anita Lonsbrough (GBR) 1964:  Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS) 1968:  Sharon Wichman (USA) 1972:  Beverley Whitfield (AUS) 1976:  Marina Kosheveya (URS) 1980:  Lina Kačiušytė (URS) 1984:  Anne Ottenbrite (CAN) 1988:  Silke Hörner (GDR) 1992:  Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN) 1996:  Penny Heyns (RSA) 2000:  Ágnes Kovács (HUN) 2004:  Amanda Beard (USA) 2008:  Rebecca Soni (USA) 2012:  Rebecca Soni (USA) 2016:  Rie Kaneto (JPN) 2020:  Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA) 2024:  Kate Douglass (USA)