2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	8 December (heats and final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:00.79
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.23	Doha	5 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:08.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:02.87	Q
2	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:03.39	Q
3	3	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:03.74	Q
4	3	8	Hellen Moffitt	United States	2:03.83	Q
5	5	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:03.91	Q
6	4	5	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:04.63	Q
7	5	6	Miki Takahashi	Japan	2:04.76	Q
8	4	6	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	2:05.12	Q
9	4	1	Kennedy Goss	Canada	2:05.41
10	3	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:05.73
11	4	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:05.74
12	5	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:06.25
13	3	7	Chen Jie	China	2:06.38
14	5	7	Clara Smiddy	United States	2:06.60
15	5	2	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	2:07.06
16	3	2	Liu Yaxin	China	2:07.19
17	3	5	Eygló Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:07.36
18	3	0	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	2:07.67
19	5	1	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:07.70	NR
20	5	0	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:07.79	NR
21	3	6	Sarah Bro	Denmark	2:09.11
22	5	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:09.21
23	4	2	Mariella Venter	South Africa	2:09.55
24	4	7	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:09.67
25	5	9	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:09.77
26	3	1	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	2:11.55
27	4	0	Wong Toto Kwan To	Hong Kong	2:11.93
28	4	8	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:13.11
29	3	9	Kimiko Raheem	Sri Lanka	2:14.91	NR
30	2	5	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	2:16.59	NR
31	4	9	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	2:17.71	NR
32	2	3	Celina Marquez	El Salvador	2:18.89	NR
33	1	3	Rosalee Mira Santa Ana	Philippines	2:21.33
34	2	2	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:22.76
35	2	6	Maria Arrua	Paraguay	2:23.71	NR
36	2	7	Britheny Joassaint	Haiti	2:26.10
37	2	4	Maana Patel	India	2:26.11	NR
38	2	0	Rahaf Baqleh	Jordan	2:30.44
39	2	8	Tiareth Cijntje	Curaçao	2:31.46	NR
40	2	1	Gabby Gittens	Antigua and Barbuda	2:33.89	NR
41	2	9	Osisang Chilton	Palau	2:39.50	NR
42	1	5	Ruthie Long	Marshall Islands	2:42.62	NR
	1	4	Kaya Forson	Ghana		DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:53.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:00.79
	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:02.24
	2	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:02.65
4	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:03.98
5	8	Kathleen Dawson	United Kingdom	2:04.09
6	6	Hellen Moffitt	United States	2:04.56
7	7	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:05.02
8	1	Miki Takahashi	Japan	2:06.29

References

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