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

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 8, 1973
Competitors	27 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:13.766 WR
Medalists
Rosemarie Kother    East Germany   Roswitha Beier    East Germany   Lynn Colella    United States
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The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.

Records[]

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

World record	Karen Moe (USA)	2:15.57	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
8 September	Heat		United States	2:23.870	CR
8 September	Heat		Australia	2:21.825	CR
8 September	Heat	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:18.876	CR
8 September	Heat	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:15.455	WR
8 September	Final	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:13.766	WR

Results[]

Heats[]

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:15.455	Q, WR
2	3	-	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:18.876	Q, CR
3	3	-	Lynn Colella	United States	2:20.363	Q
4	2	-		Australia	2:21.825	Q, CR
5	4	-	José Damen		2:23.604	Q
6	1	-		United States	2:23.870	Q, CR
7	4	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	2:24.537	Q
8	1	-			2:24.595	Q
9	2	-		Soviet Union	2:24.791
10	3	-	Patti Stenhouse	Canada	2:25.304
11	3	-	Gail Neall	Australia	2:25.818
12	2	-	Anca Groza	Romania	2:27.220
13	1	-	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	2:27.269
14	2	-	Gunilla Andersson	Sweden	2:28.030
15	3	-		Yugoslavia	2:28.580
16	2	-	Vera Faitlova	Czechoslovakia	2:29.727
17	1	-			2:29.835
18	4	-		Italy	2:29.955
19	1	-	Ileana Morales		2:30.181
20	2	-	Roselina Angel		2:30.884
21	2	-	Gisela Cerezo		2:30.977
22	1	-	Aurora Chamorro	Spain	2:32.436
23	4	-	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	2:32.903
24	3	-	María Mock		2:37.098
25	3	-		Italy	2:38.930
26	4	-			-	DNS / DQ
27	4	-	Mayumi Aoki		-	DNS / DQ

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:13.766	WR
	5	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:16.777
	3	Lynn Colella	United States	2:19.535
4	2	José Damen		2:21.964
5	6		Australia	2:22.323
6	7		United States	2:22.570
7	1	Uta Schütz	West Germany	2:23.508
8	8			2:25.689

References[]