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

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	July 29, 2009

Heats

49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:56.66	Q
2	7	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.87	Q
3	5	4	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:57.37	Q
4	5	6	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:57.40	Q
5	6	4	Kylie Palmer	Australia	1:57.42	Q
6	5	5	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:57.43	Q
7	7	6	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:57.53	Q
8	6	1	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	1:57.72	Q
9	7	5	Camille Muffat	France	1.57.99	Q
10	4	4	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:58.01	Q
11	7	8	Melania Costa Schmid	Spain	1:58.04	Q
12	6	3	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:58.26	Q
12	6	8	Barbara Jardin	Canada	1:58.26	Q
14	7	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:58.27	Q
15	6	6	Tang Yi	China	1:58.30	Q
16	6	2	Haruka Ueda	Japan	1:58.74	swimoff
16	7	1	Hanae Ito	Japan	1:58.74	swimoff
18	5	1	Samantha Cheverton	Canada	1:58.83
19	5	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:58.89
20	7	2	Morgan Scroggy	United States	1:59.22
21	7	3	Zhu Qianwei	China	1:59.22
22	5	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:59.30
23	5	7	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	1:59.36
24	5	2	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	1:59.40
25	4	1	Karin Prinsloo	South Africa	1:59.52
26	4	2	Pernille Blume	Denmark	1:59.96
27	6	7	Gabriella Fagundez	Sweden	2:00.05
28	4	3	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	2:00.52
29	4	5	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.56
30	3	3	Joerdis Steinegger	Austria	2:01.06
31	3	5	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	2:01.33
32	4	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:01.50
33	4	7	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	2:01.62
34	3	4	Liliana Ibanez	Mexico	2:01.70
35	4	8	Katarina Filova	Slovakia	2:01.96
36	3	8	Katarina Listopadova	Slovakia	2:02.15
37	3	7	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	2:02.89
38	3	2	Kim Jungh-Hye	South Korea	2:03.13
39	3	1	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:03.68
40	2	4	Andrea Cedron	Peru	2:08.10
41	2	1	Bayan Jumah	Syria	2:09.08
42	2	2	Branka Vranjes	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:09.64
43	2	3	Heather Arseth	Mauritius	2:10.93
44	2	7	Olivia de Maroussem	Mauritius	2:12.28
45	2	6	Ma Cheok Mei	Macau	2:12.39
46	2	8	Britany van Lange	Guyana	2:16.40
47	1	3	Victoria Chentsova	Northern Mariana Islands	2:27.86
48	1	5	Aure Fanchette	Seychelles	2:31.88
49	1	6	Jennet Saryyeva	Turkmenistan	2:41.27
–	1	4	Gouri Kotecha	Tanzania		DNS
–	2	5	Victoria Ho	Jamaica		DNS
–	3	6	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela		DNS

Swimoff

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Haruka Ueda	Japan	1:58.19	Q
2	5	Hanae Ito	Japan	1:58.55

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:14.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:55.54	Q
2	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.42	Q
3	7	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:56.71	Q
4	5	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:57.53
5	6	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	1:58.09
6	8	Haruka Ueda	Japan	1:58.28
7	2	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:58.52
8	1	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:59.71

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Kylie Palmer	Australia	1:56.59	Q
2	2	Camille Muffat	France	1:56.62	Q
3	5	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:56.90	Q
4	6	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:57.02	Q
5	4	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:57.07	Q
6	7	Melania Costa Schmid	Spain	1:57.83	NR
7	8	Tang Yi	China	1:57.91
8	1	Barbara Jardin	Canada	1:58.18

Final

The final was held at 18:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.58
	3	Kylie Palmer	Australia	1:56.04
	6	Camille Muffat	France	1:56.10
4	2	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:56.41
5	7	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:56.60
6	8	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:56.98
7	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:57.63
8	1	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:58.26

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle start list^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.