Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke
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The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the longest of the 3 backstroke events for women at the 2005 Worlds. Preliminary[1] and Semifinals[2] heats were swum 29 July, with the Final heat on 30 July.[3] The top 16 finishers from Prelims advanced to swim again in Semifinals; the top 8 swimmers in Semifinals advanced to swim a third time in the Final.
Quick Facts Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships, Dates ...
Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 29 July (heats and semifinals) 30 July (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 47 from 37 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 2 minutes 8.52 seconds | |||||||||
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At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
- WR: 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), swum 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece
- CR: 2:07.40, Cihong He (China), swum 11 September 1994 in Rome, Italy