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

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 4, 1973
Competitors	30 from 22 nations
Winning time	2:20.518 WR
Medalists
	1975 →

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.

Records[edit]

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

World record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	2:23.01	East Berlin, East Germany	13 April 1973
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 September	Heat	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:28.842	CR
4 September	Heat	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:28.306	CR
4 September	Heat	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:24.168	CR
4 September	Final	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:20.518	WR

30 swimmers participated in 4 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:24.16	Q, CR
2	4	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:25.31	Q
3	3	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	2:26.49	Q
4	3	-	Debra Cain	Australia	2:26.72	Q
5	2	-	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:28.30	Q, CR
6	4	-	Julie Woodcock	United States	2:28.66	Q
7	1	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:28.84	Q, CR
8	4	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	2:29.55	Q
9	3	-	Susan Hunter	New Zealand	2:29.99
10	2	-	Judy Wright	Canada	2:30.03
11	1	-	Karin Bormann	West Germany	2:30.19
12	1	-	Anita Zarnowiecki	Sweden	2:30.48
13	2	-	Trine Krogh	Norway	2:31.28
14	4	-	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	2:32.23
15	4	-	Gail Neall	Australia	2:32.72
16	4	-	Helga Niemann	West Germany	2:32.95
17	2	-	Marina Malyutina	Soviet Union	2:32.95
18	1	-	Olga Chlupova	Czechoslovakia	2:33.09
19	4	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	2:33.93
20	3	-	Jasna Efendic	Yugoslavia	2:34.73
21	2	-	Maria Isabel Guerra	Brazil	2:36.42
22	3	-	Naoko Shio	Japan	2:36.97
23	1	-	Nieves Panadell	Spain	2:37.43
24	1	-	Roselina Angee	Colombia	2:37.97
25	1	-	Eleni Avlonitou	Greece	2:39.44
26	4	-	García Borras	Argentina	2:39.94
27	3	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	2:40.55
28	2	-	Angela López	Puerto Rico	2:44.44
29	1	-	Myriam Mizouni	Tunisia	2:45.52
–	3	-	Gabriella Verraszto	Hungary		DNS / DQ

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Andrea Hübner	East Germany	2:20.518	WR
	-	Kornelia Ender	East Germany	2:21.218
	-	Kathy Heddy	United States	2:23.842
4	-	Novella Calligaris	Italy	2:24.075
5	-	Julie Woodcock	United States	2:25.728
6	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:26.263
7	-	Yukari Takemoto	Japan	2:26.475
8	-	Debra Cain	Australia	2:26.634

^ "For the Record" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
^ "Official results". FINA.org. Retrieved 30 August 2019.