Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:04.81	Rome	August 1, 2009

Heats

39 swimmers participated in 6 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Missy Franklin	United States	2:07.71	Q
2	4	7	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.35	Q
3	4	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:08.40	Q
4	4	4	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:08.50	Q
5	6	5	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:08.50	Q
6	4	6	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:08.92	Q
7	4	3	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:09.03	Q
8	5	5	Shiho Sakai	Japan	2:09.25	Q
9	4	1	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	2:09.65	Q
10	5	4	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:10.02	Q
11	5	6	Alexianne Castel	France	2:10.38	Q
12	6	4	Zhao Jing	China	2:10.40	Q
13	6	1	Duane da Rocha	Spain	2:10.41	Q
14	4	2	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:10.59	Q
15	6	2	Stephanie Proud	Great Britain	2:10.65	Q
16	5	7	Genevieve Cantin	Canada	2:11.09	Q
17	6	3	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	2:11.23
18	6	6	Zhu Jiani	China	2:11.84
19	3	1	Fernanda González	Mexico	2:12.29	NR
20	6	7	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:12.38
21	3	7	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	2:12.73
22	4	8	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	2:13.01
23	3	4	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	2:13.39
24	6	8	Simona Baumrtova	Czech Republic	2:13.48
25	2	3	Anna Volchkov	Israel	2:13.99	NR
26	5	1	Alicja Tchorz	Poland	2:14.27
27	3	5	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	2:14.85
28	3	6	Ham Chan-Mi	South Korea	2:14.88
29	3	8	Lau Yin Yan	Hong Kong	2:15.09
30	2	5	Eyglo Gustafsdottir	Iceland	2:15.16
31	2	4	Leone Vorster	South Africa	2:16.45
3 2	5	8	Sophia Batachelor	New Zealand	2:17.06
33	3	3	Therese Svendsen	Sweden	2:18.12
34	2	6	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Uzbekistan	2:18.62
35	2	7	Ines Remarsaro	Uruguay	2:21.07
36	2	2	Tatiana Perstineva	Moldova	2:21.25
37	1	4	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:24.43
38	1	5	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	2:33.83
39	1	3	Aure Fanchette	Seychelles	2:52.04
–	3	2	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary		DNS
–	5	2	Aya Terakawa	Japan		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:12.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:07.76	Q
2	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.22	Q
3	2	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:08.79	Q
4	3	Sinead Russell	Canada	2:08.80	NR
5	7	Zhao Jing	China	2:08.86
6	6	Shiho Sakai	Japan	2:08.93
7	1	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:10.77
8	8	Genevieve Cantin	Canada	2:12.12

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:05.90	Q, AM
2	5	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:07.82	Q
3	7	Alexianne Castel	France	2:08.41	Q
4	2	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	2:08.42	Q
5	3	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:08.53	Q
6	6	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:09.33
7	8	Stephanie Proud	Great Britain	2:10.57
8	1	Duane da Rocha	Spain	2:10.74

Final

The final was held at 18:33.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Missy Franklin	United States	2:05.10	AM
	5	Belinda Hocking	Australia	2:06.06	OC
	7	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	2:07.78	NR
4	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:07.82	NR
5	3	Elizabeth Beisel	United States	2:08.16
6	1	Meagen Nay	Australia	2:08.69
7	8	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:08.76
8	2	Alexianne Castel	France	2:09.07

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre backstroke start list^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.
• FINA World Championships, Swimming: Missy Franklin Unstoppable in 200 Back Win; Crushes Textile Best, American Record, Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-30); retrieved 2011-08-10.