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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.^[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

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 27 July at 10:10.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.03	Q
2	4	5	Lilly King	United States	2:24.28	Q
3	3	4	Taylor McKeown	Australia	2:24.31	Q
4	2	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.41	Q
5	2	5	Bethany Galat	United States	2:24.56	Q
6	3	6	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:24.57	Q
7	2	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.69	Q
8	4	7	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:25.26	Q, NR
9	2	2	Ashley McGregor	Canada	2:25.31	Q
10	4	3	Shi Jinglin	China	2:25.39	Q
11	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:25.63	Q
12	4	6	Reona Aoki	Japan	2:25.93	Q
13	3	7	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	2:26.45	Q
14	3	5	Jocelyn Ulyett	Great Britain	2:26.50	Q
15	3	2	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:26.78	Q
16	4	2	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:28.59	Q
17	2	6	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:28.68
18	2	1	Esther González	Mexico	2:28.71
19	4	8	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:28.81
20	3	1	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:29.18
21	4	1	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	2:29.34
22	2	7	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:29.35
23	3	0	Kaylene Corbett	South Africa	2:31.36
24	3	8	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:32.63
25	4	0	Natasha Lloyd	New Zealand	2:33.93
26	2	0	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	2:35.20
27	2	8	Rebecca Kamau	Kenya	2:36.99
28	3	9	Alina Bulmag	Moldova	2:37.42
29	4	9	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	2:38.60
30	1	2	Nguyễn Thị Nhất Lam	Vietnam	2:45.25
31	1	3	Honia Ibrahim	Iraq	2:45.37
32	1	5	Rusudan Goginashvili	Georgia	2:45.52
33	1	4	Kiah Borg	Namibia	2:48.48
34	2	9	Nawapas Pisanuwong	Thailand	2:49.09
35	1	7	Kristina Panasenko	Kyrgyzstan	2:52.53
36	1	6	Tilali Scanlan	American Samoa	3:04.65

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 18:50.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Shi Jinglin	China	2:23.17	Q
2	3	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:23.18	Q
3	5	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:23.49	Q
4	4	Lilly King	United States	2:23.81	Q
5	1	Jocelyn Ulyett	Great Britain	2:23.82
6	7	Reona Aoki	Japan	2:24.42
7	6	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:25.67
8	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:27.77

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:21.49	Q
2	3	Bethany Galat	United States	2:21.86	Q
3	5	Taylor McKeown	Australia	2:22.10	Q
4	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.51	Q
5	6	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.51
6	8	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:25.60
7	2	Ashley McGregor	Canada	2:25.75
8	1	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	2:26.37

Final

The final was held on 28 July at 18:25.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:19.64
	5	Bethany Galat	United States	2:21.77
	6	Shi Jinglin	China	2:21.93
4	8	Lilly King	United States	2:22.11
5	2	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:22.23
6	1	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:22.96
7	3	Taylor McKeown	Australia	2:23.06
8	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:23.29

References