Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals); 26 July (final)
Competitors	34 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:20.17
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:19.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2013
Competition record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:19.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2013

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:50.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:24.53	Q
2	3	5	Tatjana Schoenmaker	South Africa	2:24.66	Q
3	4	2	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:24.83	Q
4	2	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:24.93	Q, NR
5	4	3	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:25.01	Q
5	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:25.01	Q
7	2	2	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:25.05	Q
8	2	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:25.17	Q
8	4	5	Micah Sumrall	United States	2:25.17	Q
10	2	6	Ye Shiwen	China	2:25.41	Q
11	2	4	Reona Aoki	Japan	2:25.93	Q
12	3	6	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:25.98	Q
13	3	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.04	Q
14	3	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:26.06	Q, NR
15	4	7	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:26.25	Q
16	4	1	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	2:26.56	Q
17	3	2	Yu Jingyao	China	2:26.77
18	3	1	Martina Carraro	Italy	2:27.41
19	4	6	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:27.46
20	4	8	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:27.67
21	3	7	Jessica Hansen	Australia	2:29.18
22	2	1	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:29.93
23	2	8	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:29.97
24	2	0	Weronika Hallmann	Poland	2:30.22
25	2	9	Margaret Higgs	Bahamas	2:30.50	NR
26	4	0	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:30.67
27	1	4	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:31.68
28	4	9	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	2:35.58
29	1	5	María Jiménez	Mexico	2:37.49
30	1	3	Amy Micallef	Malta	2:44.30
31	1	6	Cheang Weng Lam	Macau	2:46.10
32	1	2	Tilali Scanlan	American Samoa	2:52.56
33	1	7	Sajina Aishath	Maldives	3:04.53	NR
	3	4	Lilly King	United States	DSQ
	3	0	Niamh Coyne	Ireland	DNS
	3	9	Jamie Yeung	Hong Kong	DNS

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:21.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:21.20	Q
2	4	Tatjana Schoenmaker	South Africa	2:21.79	Q, AF
3	6	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.16	Q
4	2	Ye Shiwen	China	2:23.49	Q
5	5	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:24.47	NR
6	7	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:24.55
7	1	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:25.67	NR
8	8	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	2:26.29

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:23.11	Q
2	6	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:23.76	Q, NR
3	3	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:24.17	Q
4	5	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:24.18	Q
5	2	Micah Sumrall	United States	2:25.41
6	8	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:26.65
7	7	Reona Aoki	Japan	2:27.95
8	1	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:28.11

The final was held on 26 July at 20:50.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:20.17
	5	Tatjana Schoenmaker	South Africa	2:22.52
	3	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:22.90
4	2	Ye Shiwen	China	2:23.15
5	6	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.78
6	1	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:25.14
7	7	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:25.23
8	8	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:26.62