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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Women's 200 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre,; Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	1 August 2024 (heats and semifinals); 2 August 2024 (final)
Competitors	27 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:03.73
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Kaylee McKeown (AUS)	2:03.14	Sydney, Australia	10 March 2023
Olympic record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.06	London, United Kingdom	3 August 2012

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
2 August	Final	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.73	OR

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[2]^[3]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Women's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m backstroke	2:10.39ª	2:11.04

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)^[1]

Date	Time	Round
1 August 2024	11:00	Heats
1 August 2024	21:19	Semifinals
2 August 2024	20:36	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Peng Xuwei	China	2:08.29	Q
2	2	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.54	Q
3	4	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.89	Q
4	4	5	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:09.00	Q
5	2	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:09.57	Q
6	3	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:09.61	Q
7	3	7	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:09.64	Q
8	4	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:09.66	Q
9	2	6	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.72	Q
10	4	8	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:09.88	Q
11	4	3	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:09.92	Q
12	4	2	Carmen Weiler	Spain	2:10.09	Q
13	3	6	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.29	Q
14	4	1	Pauline Mahieu	France	2:10.30	Q
15	2	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.40	Q
16	4	7	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.51	Q
17	2	5	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:10.53
18	2	1	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:10.71
19	3	2	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:11.26
20	3	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:11.60
21	2	8	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:12.15
22	3	1	Regan Rathwell	Canada	2:12.21
23	1	5	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.20
24	3	8	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:13.39
25	2	2	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:14.57
26	1	4	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:17.32
27	1	3	Anishta Teeluck	Mauritius	2:18.67

^[5]

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:07.32	Q
2	2	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:07.57	Q
3	2	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:07.84	Q
4	2	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:07.86	Q
5	1	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:07.92	Q
6	1	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:08.14	Q
7	2	7	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:08.52	Q
8	2	6	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:08.79	Q
9	1	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:09.38
10	2	2	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.41
11	1	1	Pauline Mahieu	France	2:09.56
12	1	8	Dora Molnar	Hungary	2:09.83
13	1	7	Carmen Weiler	Spain	2:09.99
14	2	8	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.63
15	1	2	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:11.86
16	2	1	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.96

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.73	OR
	7	Regan Smith	United States	2:04.26
	2	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:05.57
4	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.61
5	1	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:07.53
6	6	Peng Xuwei	China	2:07.96
7	3	Honey Osrin	Great Britain	2:08.16
8	8	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Individual Neutral Athletes	2:10.23