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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 5, 1973
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:04.999
Medalists
Keena Rothhammer    United States   Shirley Babashoff    United States   Andrea Eife    East Germany
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Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.

Records show that prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Shane Gould (AUS)	2:03.56	Munich, West Germany	1 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
5 September	Heat	Lesley Allardice	United Kingdom	2:12.946	CR
5 September	Heat	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	CR
5 September	Heat	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	CR
5 September	Heat	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	CR
5 September	Final	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

34 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:07.531	Q, CR
2	5	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:07.753	Q
3	3	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:08.099	Q, CR
4	2	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:09.260	Q, CR
5	5	-		Australia	2:09.936	Q, PB[2]
6	2	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.973	Q
7	5	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.778	Q
8	2	-			2:10.878	Q
9	4	-		Australia	2:11.179
10	5	-	Guylaine Berger	France	2:11.400
11	3	-	Leslie Cliff	Canada	2:11.506
12	3	-	Angela Steinbach	West Germany	2:12.438
13	1	-	Lesley Allardice	Great Britain	2:12.946	CR
14	5	-	Tatyana Zolotnitskaya	Soviet Union	2:13.141
15	4	-	Maria Guimarães	Brazil	2:14.218
16	1	-	Brenda Holmes	Canada	2:14.431
17	4	-	Federica Stabilini	Italy	2:14.496
18	5	-	Lucy Burle	Brazil	2:14.987
19	1	-		Sweden	2:15.506
20	1	-	Ileana Morales		2:15.518
21	4	-	Tamara Shelofastova	Soviet Union	2:15.940
22	3	-	Chantal Schertz	France	2:16.558
23	1	-			2:17.016
24	3	-		Poland	2:17.716
25	2	-			2:19.384
26	4	-			2:20.064
27	4	-	Marianela Huen		2:21.916
28	1	-			2:23.097
29	5	-			2:23.220
30	2	-		Austria	2:24.075
31	4	-			2:24.328
32	3	-	Myriam Mizouni		2:25.432
33	3	-	Edit Kovács	Hungary	2:25.470
34	2	-			2:45.589

Final[]

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Keena Rothhammer	United States	2:04.999	CR
	-	Shirley Babashoff	United States	2:05.332
	-	Andrea Eife	East Germany	2:05.525
4	-		Australia	2:07.889	PB
5	-	Irwi Johansson	Sweden	2:08.895
6	-	Elke Sehmisch	East Germany	2:09.331
7	-			2:09.412
8	-	Jutta Weber	West Germany	2:10.587

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