title: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
text: # Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
  
  The women's 200 m individual medley swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 10 to 17 September. A total of nine events are contested for nine 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 less than eight swimmers in an event, no heats are held and all swimmers qualify for the final.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### SM5
  
  The SM5 event took place on 15 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Sarah Louise Rung | Norway | 3:15.83 |
  | | 3 | Teresa Perales | Spain | 3:36.14 |
  | | 5 | Inbal Pezaro | Israel | 3:38.20 |
  | 4 | 2 | Natallia Shavel | Belarus | 3:39.61 |
  | 5 | 6 | Bela Trebinova | Czech Republic | 3:41.76 |
  | 6 | 7 | Giulia Ghiretti | Italy | 3:48.68 |
  | 7 | 1 | Susana Ribeiro | Brazil | 3:50.69 |
  | 8 | 8 | Wu Qi | China | 3:51.08 |
  
  ### SM6
  
  The SM6 event took place on 12 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Ellie Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:59.81 | WR |
  | | 3 | Song Lingling | China | 3:03.19 | AS |
  | | 6 | Tiffany Thomas Kane | Australia | 3:09.78 | OC |
  | 4 | 1 | Verena Schott | Germany | 3:10.44 | |
  | 5 | 2 | Lu Dong | China | 3:13.47 | |
  | 6 | 7 | Sophia Herzog | United States | 3:13.57 | |
  | 7 | 8 | Nicole Turner | Ireland | 3:18.18 | |
  | | 5 | Yelyzaveta Mereshko | Ukraine | DSQ | |
  
  ### SM7
  
  The SM7 event took place on 13 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Nikita Howarth | New Zealand | 2:57.29 |
  | | 5 | Tess Routliffe | Canada | 3:02.05 |
  | | 3 | Cortney Jordan | United States | 3:04.17 |
  | 4 | 6 | Zhang Ying | China | 3:09.28 |
  | 5 | 2 | Sarah Mehain | Canada | 3:11.16 |
  | 6 | 7 | Arianna Talamona | Italy | 3:16.97 |
  | 7 | 8 | Judit Rolo Marichal | Spain | 3:39.68 |
  | | 1 | Verônica Almeida | Brazil | DSQ |
  
  ### SM8
  
  The SM8 event took place on 17 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Jessica Long | United States | 2:40.23 | |
  | | 5 | Stephanie Millward | Great Britain | 2:43.03 | |
  | | 3 | Lakeisha Patterson | Australia | 2:45.22 | OC |
  | 4 | 7 | Jiang Shengnan | China | 2:47.15 | AS |
  | 5 | 2 | Mallory Weggemann | United States | 2:48.95 | |
  | 6 | 6 | Maddison Elliott | Australia | 2:49.67 | |
  | 7 | 1 | Lu Weiyuan | China | 2:50.96 | |
  | 8 | 8 | Abi Tripp | Canada | 2:55.08 | |
  
  ### SM9
  
  The SM9 event took place on 11 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 5 | Lin Ping | China | 2:35.64 | AS |
  | | 3 | Sarai Gascon | Spain | 2:35.84 | |
  | | 4 | Amy Marren | Great Britain | 2:36.26 | |
  | 4 | 1 | Xu Jialing | China | 2:36.48 | |
  | 5 | 7 | Nuria Marques Soto | Spain | 2:37.30 | |
  | 6 | 6 | Madeleine Scott | Australia | 2:37.65 | OC |
  | 7 | 2 | Katarina Roxon | Canada | 2:37.87 | |
  | 8 | 8 | Claire Cashmore | Great Britain | 2:38.34 | |
  
  ### SM10
  
  The SM10 event took place on 11 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Sophie Pascoe | New Zealand | 2:24.90 | WR |
  | | 5 | Aurelie Rivard | Canada | 2:30.03 | AM |
  | | 1 | Bianka Pap | Hungary | 2:31.46 | |
  | 4 | 3 | Lisa Kruger | Netherlands | 2:32.81 | |
  | 5 | 8 | Chen Yi | China | 2:33.06 | |
  | 6 | 2 | Chantalle Zijderveld | Netherlands | 2:33.10 | |
  | 7 | 6 | Harriet Lee | Great Britain | 2:34.91 | |
  | 8 | 7 | Zhang Meng | China | 2:36.53 | |
  
  ### SM11
  
  The SM11 event took place on 16 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Liesette Bruinsma | Netherlands | 2:49.87 | |
  | | 3 | Maja Reichard | Sweden | 2:51.72 | |
  | | 5 | Xie Qing | China | 2:51.98 | AS |
  | 4 | 1 | Maryna Piddubna | Ukraine | 2:55.31 | |
  | 5 | 6 | Elisabeth Egel | Estonia | 2:55.62 | |
  | 6 | 2 | Mary Fisher | New Zealand | 2:55.71 | |
  | 7 | 7 | Daniela Schulte | Germany | 2:59.08 | |
  | 8 | 8 | Yana Berezhna | Ukraine | 3:07.58 | |
  
  ### SM13
  
  The SM13 event took place on 10 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 5 | Rebecca Meyers | United States | 2:24.66 |
  | | 4 | Fotimakhon Amilova | Uzbekistan | 2:25.23 |
  | | 3 | Shokhsanamkhon Toshpulatova | Uzbekistan | 2:27.31 |
  | 4 | 6 | Anna Stetsenko | Ukraine | 2:28.95 |
  | 5 | 2 | Colleen Young | United States | 2:30.85 |
  | 6 | 1 | Ariadna Edo Beltran | Spain | 2:36.45 |
  | 7 | 7 | Alessia Berra | Italy | 2:37.91 |
  | 8 | 8 | Prue Watt | Australia | 2:39.06 |
  
  ### SM14
  
  The SM14 event took place on 17 September.
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Bethany Firth | Great Britain | 2:19.55 | PR |
  | | 5 | Jessica-Jane Applegate | Great Britain | 2:27.58 | |
  | | 3 | Marlou van der Kulk | Netherlands | 2:29.49 | |
  | 4 | 6 | Pernilla Lindberg | Sweden | 2:36.30 | |
  | 5 | 2 | Michelle Franssen | Belgium | 2:36.54 | |
  | 6 | 1 | Magda Toeters | Netherlands | 2:36.56 | |
  | 7 | 7 | Syuci Indriani | Indonesia | 2:40.64 | |
  | 8 | 8 | Michelle Alonso Morales | Spain | 2:44.87 | |
  