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The women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 23 and 24 July 2019.^[1][2]

Records

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

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 23 July at 10:17.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:55.14	Q
2	5	3	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:56.02	Q
3	7	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:56.34	Q
4	5	6	Yang Junxuan	China	1:56.43	Q
5	7	3	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.81	Q
6	7	2	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:57.25	Q
7	7	7	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:57.32	Q, NR
8	6	6	Li Bingjie	China	1:57.59	Q
9	6	1	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	1:57.68	Q
10	7	6	Veronika Andrusenko	Russia	1:57.77	Q
11	5	1	Valeriya Salamatina	Russia	1:57.98	Q
12	6	2	Rio Shirai	Japan	1:58.10	Q
13	6	5	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.21	Q
14	6	3	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:58.73	Q
15	6	8	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:59.11	Q
16	6	7	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:59.18	Q
17	5	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.44
18	7	1	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	1:59.60
19	6	0	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:59.68
20	7	8	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:00.33
21	5	0	Aleksandra Polańska	Poland	2:00.34
22	5	8	Katja Fain	Slovenia	2:00.38
23	4	4	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:00.39
24	4	3	Marlene Kahler	Austria	2:00.56
25	7	0	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:00.74
26	4	2	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	2:00.99	NR
27	4	6	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:01.86
28	4	1	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	2:01.96
29	4	9	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:02.38	NR
30	7	9	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	2:02.70
31	5	7	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	2:02.76
32	5	9	Jo Hyun-ju	South Korea	2:03.16
33	4	7	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:03.30
34	6	9	Nicole Oliva	Philippines	2:04.26
35	4	0	María Álvarez	Colombia	2:05.28
36	3	5	Gabriela Santis	Guatemala	2:05.36
37	4	5	Emily Gantriis	Denmark	2:05.44
38	3	3	Elan Daley	Bermuda	2:05.47
39	3	6	Amanda Alfaro	Costa Rica	2:06.60
40	3	4	Sara Pastrana	Honduras	2:06.76
41	4	8	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	2:07.43
42	3	1	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon	2:09.07
43	1	3	Ani Poghosyan	Armenia	2:09.09
44	3	9	Tiana Rabarijaona	Madagascar	2:10.21
45	3	2	Paige van der Westhuizen	Zimbabwe	2:11.36
46	3	8	Danielle Treasure	Barbados	2:11.51
47	3	0	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:11.56
48	2	4	Gaurika Singh	Nepal	2:13.00
49	1	6	Leedia Al-Safadi	Jordan	2:13.19
50	2	5	Anđela Antunović	Montenegro	2:13.62
51	2	2	Abiola Ogunbanwo	Nigeria	2:15.44	NR
52	2	3	Natalia Kuipers	Virgin Islands	2:15.45
53	3	7	Elizaveta Rogozhnikova	Kyrgyzstan	2:15.46
54	2	8	Mya de Freitas	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:15.48
55	2	7	Tinatin Kevlishvili	Georgia	2:17.71
56	2	1	Zaira Forson	Ghana	2:18.74
57	2	6	Olivia Fuller	Antigua and Barbuda	2:19.71
58	2	0	Mineri Gomez	Guam	2:23.73
59	2	9	Judith Meauri	Papua New Guinea	2:25.42
60	1	5	Jin Ju Thompson	Northern Mariana Islands	2:32.35
61	1	4	Charissa Panuve	Tonga	2:33.31
	5	4	Emma McKeon	Australia	DNS
	6	4	Taylor Ruck	Canada
	7	5	Katie Ledecky	United States

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 23 July at 21:14.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:55.58	Q, NR
2	1	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.99	Q, WJ
3	3	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:56.41	Q
4	7	Rio Shirai	Japan	1:56.82	Q
5	6	Li Bingjie	China	1:57.30
6	2	Veronika Andrusenko	Russia	1:57.65
7	5	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:58.27
8	8	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:58.97

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.14	Q
2	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:55.36	Q
3	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:55.70	Q
4	1	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:56.19	Q
5	6	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	1:57.16	NR
6	7	Valeriya Salamatina	Russia	1:57.25
7	2	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	1:57.51
8	8	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:58.78

Final

The final was held on 24 July at 20:17.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:54.22
	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:54.66
	6	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:54.78
4	3	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	1:54.98	NR
5	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:55.43
6	1	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:56.59
7	7	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:56.95
8	8	Rio Shirai	Japan	1:57.14

References