2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre freestyle

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:51.17	Istanbul	13 December 2009
Championship record	Camille Muffat	France	1:52.29	Dubai	19 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Zsuzsanna Jakabos (HUN)	1:55.24	Q
2	6	4	Veronika Popova (RUS)	1:55.28	Q
3	6	7	Haruka Ueda (JPN)	1:55.32	Q
4	7	7	Lauren Boyle (NZL)	1:55.40	Q, NR
5	7	5	Melanie Costa (ESP)	1:55.42	Q
6	8	4	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	1:55.52	Q
7	7	4	Allison Schmitt (USA)	1:55.77	Q
8	8	5	Angie Bainbridge (AUS)	1:56.09	Q
9	7	2	Lotte Friis (DEN)	1:56.17
10	7	3	Mie Nielsen (DEN)	1:56.36
11	8	3	Rebecca Turner (GBR)	1:56.46
12	8	2	Guo Junjun (CHN)	1:56.51
13	1	8	Pang Jiaying (CHN)	1:57.25
14	6	6	Daryna Zevina (UKR)	1:57.33
15	8	8	Melissa Ingram (NZL)	1:57.38
16	6	3	Nina Rangelova (BUL)	1:57.49
17	6	1	Megan Romano (USA)	1:57.87
18	5	3	Alice Mizzau (ITA)	1:57.89
19	7	6	Michelle Coleman (SWE)	1:58.03
20	8	7	Sze Hang Yu (HKG)	1:58.06
21	7	0	Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED)	1:58.38
22	5	6	Ellie Faulkner (GBR)	1:58.69
23	8	1	Heather MacLean (CAN)	1:58.80
24	6	8	Diletta Carli (ITA)	1:58.81
25	8	6	Daria Belyakina (RUS)	1:58.99
26	7	8	Ellen Fullerton (AUS)	1:59.27
27	5	1	Miki Uchida (JPN)	1:59.38
28	5	8	Jördis Steinegger (AUT)	1:59.39
29	6	9	Mojca Sagmeister (SLO)	1:59.44
30	5	0	Yang Chin-Kuei (TPE)	1:59.46
31	6	0	Erika Villaécija García (ESP)	1:59.66
32	5	2	Barbora Závadová (CZE)	1:59.67
33	5	4	Julia Hassler (LIE)	1:59.70
34	7	1	Urša Bežan (SLO)	1:59.81
35	4	2	Jessica Camposano (COL)	1:59.86
36	4	4	Kyna Pereira (RSA)	2:00.26
37	4	5	Rene Warnes (RSA)	2:01.09
38	7	9	Larissa Oliveira (BRA)	2:01.22
39	3	3	Samantha Arévalo (ECU)	2:01.49	NR
40	1	7	Elmira Aigaliyeva (KAZ)	2:01.88
41	5	9	Fernanda González (MEX)	2:02.05
42	8	0	Danielle Villars (SUI)	2:02.12
43	4	3	Gizem Bozkurt (TUR)	2:02.18
44	8	9	Ranohon Amanova (UZB)	2:02.35
45	4	6	Julie Meynen (LUX)	2:02.44
46	5	7	Amanda Lim (SIN)	2:03.32
47	4	7	Andrea Cedrón (PER)	2:04.79
48	3	5	Maria Gabriela Santis Mejia (GUA)	2:04.99
49	2	5	Moira Fraser (ZIM)	2:05.10
49	3	7	Karen Torrez (BOL)	2:05.10	NR
51	3	4	Allyson Roxanne Ponson (ARU)	2:06.07
52	3	2	Anastasia Bogdanovski (MKD)	2:06.18
53	1	1	Lani Cabrera (BAR)	2:06.34	NR
54	4	0	Maria Lopez Nery Huerta (PAR)	2:06.75
55	3	8	Angie Galdamez (HON)	2:08.18
56	4	9	Machiko Suharmee Raheem (SRI)	2:08.73
57	3	6	Nicola Muscat (MLT)	2:10.58	NR
58	4	1	Jessica Cattaneo (PER)	2:10.75
59	3	9	Sariyah Sherry (BAR)	2:11.08
60	3	1	Olivia Planteau de Maroussem (MRI)	2:11.11
61	2	4	Nathalie Sanchez Hernandez (ESA)	2:11.44
62	4	8	Vong Erica Man Wai (MAC)	2:11.46
63	2	3	Tieri Erasito (FIJ)	2:12.44
64	2	6	Monica Saili (SAM)	2:12.65
65	2	7	Judith Ilan Meauri (PNG)	2:15.50
66	2	1	Field Anita Zahra (KEN)	2:16.03	NR
67	2	2	Fabiola Espinoza Herrera (NCA)	2:16.62
68	3	0	Yusra Mardini (SYR)	2:19.10
69	2	8	Aurelie Fanchette (SEY)	2:19.13
70	2	0	Victoria Chentsova (NMI)	2:20.00
71	1	6	Felicity Passon (SEY)	2:21.96
72	1	5	Danielle Atoigue (GUM)	2:23.99
73	2	9	Athena Gaskin (GUY)	2:27.00
74	1	2	Charissa Sofia Panuve (TGA)	2:27.51
75	1	4	Amanda Poppe (GUM)	2:28.58
76	1	3	Mahnoor Maqsood (PAK)	2:36.23
	5	5	Burcu Dolunay (TUR)	DNS
	6	2	Louise Hansson (SWE)	DNS

Final

The final was held at 21:03.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:53.59
	7	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:54.31
	2	Melanie Costa	Spain	1:54.45
4	8	Angie Bainbridge	Australia	1:54.66
5	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:54.68
6	3	Haruka Ueda	Japan	1:55.05
7	4	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	1:55.13
8	6	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	1:57.27