title: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
  
  The women's 200 metre freestyle swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 8 to 15 September. A total of two events were contested for two different classifications.
  
  ## Competition format
  
  Each event consists of two rounds: heats and final. The top eight swimmers overall in the heats progress to the final. If there are eight or fewer swimmers in an event, no heats are held and all swimmers qualify for the final.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### S5
  
  20:08 8 September 2016:
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 5 | Li Zhang | China | 2:48.33 |
  | | 3 | Teresa Perales | Spain | 2:50.91 |
  | | 4 | Sarah Louise Rung | Norway | 2:51.37 |
  | 4 | 2 | Cuan Yao | China | 3:00.93 |
  | 5 | 6 | Inbal Pezaro | Israel | 3:03.29 |
  | 6 | 7 | Joana Maria Silva | Brazil | 3:12.73 |
  | 7 | 8 | Alyssa Gialamas | United States | 3:15.04 |
  | 8 | 1 | Anita Fatis | France | 3:18.23 |
  
  ### S14
  
  18:37 11 September 2016:
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Bethany Firth | Great Britain | 2:03.30 | PR |
  | | 5 | Jessica-Jane Applegate | Great Britain | 2:06.92 | |
  | | 6 | Marlou van der Kulk | Netherlands | 2:10.20 | |
  | 4 | 3 | Pernilla Lindberg | Sweden | 2:12.54 | |
  | 5 | 2 | Michelle Alonso Morales | Spain | 2:16.65 | |
  | 6 | 8 | Xenia Francesca Palazzo | Italy | 2:19.21 | |
  | 7 | 7 | Michelle Franssen | Belgium | 2:19.91 | |
  | 8 | 1 | Janina Breuer | Germany | 2:22.16 | |
  