Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	25 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 26 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	33
Winning time	2:09.94
Medalists
Diana Mocanu   Romania   Stanislava Komarova   Russia   Joanna Fargus   Great Britain

Main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats and semifinals took place on 25 July, with the final being held on 26 July.

Records

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

World record	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	2:06.62	Athens, Greece	25 August 1991
Championship record	He Cihong (CHN)	2:07.40	Rome, Italy	11 September 1994

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:11.04	Q
2	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.16	Q
3	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:11.54	Q
4	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:12.31	Q
5	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:12.67	Q
6	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:12.88	Q
7	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:13.19	Q
8	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:13.31	Q
9	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:13.84	Q
10	Elizabeth Wycliffe	Canada	2:14.97	Q
11	Anu Koivisto	Finland	2:15.01	Q
12	Katy Sexton	United Kingdom	2:15.04	Q
13	Zhan Shu	China	2:15.08	Q
14	Jessica Aveyard	United States	2:15.22	Q
15	Valentina Brat	Romania	2:15.32	Q
16	Jamie Reid	United States	2:15.38	Q
17	Kelly Tucker	Australia	2:15.55
18	Helen Nolfolk	New Zealand	2:15.56
19	Alenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:16.31
20	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:17.48
21	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	2:17.63
22	Ania Gustomelski	Israel	2:18.36
23	Elena Efimenko	Uzbekistan	2:23.90
24	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	2:25.31
25	Wai Yen Sia	Malaysia	2:26.16
26	Kuan Chia-Hsien	Chinese Taipei	2:26.89
27	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:29.57
28	Khadisa Ciss	Senegal	2:30.57
29	María Costanzo	Paraguay	2:33.35
30	Shun Kwan Andrea Chum	Macau	2:36.02
31	Denyse Tan	Singapore	2:43.89
32	Yelena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	2:48.73
–	Perla Martinez	Honduras	DSQ
–	Ivana Gabrilo	Switzerland	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:10.59	Q
2	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.61	Q
3	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:11.65	Q
4	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:11.69	Q
5	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:12.05	Q
6	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:12.11	Q
7	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:12.47	Q
8	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:12.78	Q
9	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2:13.42
10	Katy Sexton	United Kingdom	2:14.37
11	Jamie Reid	United States	2:14.57
12	Jessica Aveyard	United States	2:14.67
13	Zhan Shu	China	2:15.31
14	Elizabeth Wycliffe	Canada	2:15.38
15	Anu Koivisto	Finland	2:15.64
16	Valentina Brat	Romania	2:17.02

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Diana Mocanu	Romania	2:09.94
	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:10.43
	Joanna Fargus	United Kingdom	2:11.05
4	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:11.16
5	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	2:11.47
6	Clementine Stoney	Australia	2:11.58
7	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:11.68
8	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:14.12