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

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 7, 1973
Competitors	24 from 17 nations
Winning time	2:20.522
Medalists
Melissa Belote    United States   Enith Brigitha    Netherlands   Andrea Gyarmati    Hungary
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The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records[]

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

World record	Melissa Belote (USA)	2:19.19	Munich, West Germany	4 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 September	Heat	Wendy Cook	Canada	2:23.123	CR
7 September	Heat	Melissa Belote	United States	2:20.576	CR
7 September	Final	Melissa Belote	United States	2:20.522	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

24 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Melissa Belote	United States	2:20.576	Q, CR
2	1	-	Wendy Cook	Canada	2:23.123	Q, CR
3	2	-	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	2:23.586	Q
4	3	-	Enith Brigitha		2:24.882	Q
5	4	-	Christine Herbst	East Germany	2:24.932	Q
6	1	-	Debra Cain	Australia	2:24.967	Q
7	3	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:25.434	Q
8	1	-	Sylvie Le Noach	France	2:25.513	Q
9	2	-		Australia	2:25.941
10	4	-	Josien Elzerman		2:26.369
11	1	-	Diana Olsson	Sweden	2:26.965
12	3	-	Angelika Grieser	West Germany	2:27.508
13	3	-	Maryanne Graham	United States	2:29.282
14	4	-	Donna-Marie Gurr	Canada	2:30.864
15	2	-	Susan Hunter		2:31.004
16	2	-		Soviet Union	2:31.975
17	2	-			2:33.964
18	1	-		Spain	2:34.964
19	3	-		Poland	2:35.394
20	4	-		Soviet Union	2:38.871
21	4	-			2:39.033
22	2	-		Brazil	2:41.703
23	1	-	María Mock		2:45.299
24	3	-			2:51.648

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Melissa Belote	United States	2:20.522	CR
	6	Enith Brigitha		2:22.152
	3	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	2:22.483
4	2	Christine Herbst	East Germany	2:22.660
5	1	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:23.551
6	5	Wendy Cook	Canada	2:23.596
7	7	Debra Cain	Australia	2:24.268
8	8	Sylvie Le Noach	France	2:26.053

References[]