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

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:06.15	Rome	July 27, 2009

Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.01	Q
2	3	5	Mireia Belmonte Garcia	Spain	2:11.38	Q
3	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.53	Q
4	5	4	Ye Shiwen	China	2:11.63	Q
5	4	4	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:11.64	Q
6	4	5	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:11.84	Q
7	3	3	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:11.95	Q
8	5	3	Stephanie Rice	Australia	2:12.68	Q
9	3	2	Choi Hye-Ra	South Korea	2:13.00	Q
10	3	6	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:13.16	Q
11	5	2	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:13.32	Q
12	5	5	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:13.33	Q
13	5	6	Erica Morningstar	Canada	2:13.71	Q
14	4	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:14.08	Q
15	4	7	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:14.30	Q
16	3	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:14.97	Q
17	4	2	Zhu Xiaoya	China	2:14.98
18	5	8	Katheryn Anne Meaklim	South Africa	2:15.15
19	5	1	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:15.45
20	5	7	Yuliya Efimova	Russia	2:15.56
21	2	4	Ganna Dzerkal	Ukraine	2:16.17
22	2	2	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	2:16.75
23	4	1	Ida Sandin	Sweden	2:16.87
24	3	8	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	2:17.09
25	2	3	Tanja Smid	Slovenia	2:17.45
26	2	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:18.20	NR
27	3	7	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:18.69
28	2	1	Nadia Vieira	Portugal	2:19.74
29	2	6	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	2:19.94
30	2	5	Cheng Wan-jung	Chinese Taipei	2:20.20
31	1	4	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:20.38
32	2	7	Erla Haraldsdóttir	Iceland	2:21.86
33	1	5	Samantha Arevalo	Ecuador	2:22.39	NR
34	1	6	Ma Cheok Mei	Macau	2:27.59
35	1	3	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	2:27.93
36	1	7	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	2:30.02
37	1	2	Loreen Whitfield	American Samoa	2:31.97
	4	6	Rita Medrano	Mexico	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:24.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Stephanie Rice	Australia	2:09.65	Q
2	3	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:09.83	Q
3	5	Ye Shiwen	China	2:10.08	Q
4	2	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:11.76	Q
5	4	Mireia Belmonte Garcia	Spain	2:12.37
6	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:12.51
7	8	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:13.68	NR
8	1	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:14.03

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:10.65	Q
2	6	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:10.95	Q
3	5	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:11.15	Q
4	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.71	Q
5	7	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:12.21
6	1	Erica Morningstar	Canada	2:12.67
7	8	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:13.26
8	2	Choi Hye-Ra	South Korea	2:15.90

Final

The final was held 19:17.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Ye Shiwen	China	2:08.90
	6	Alicia Coutts	Australia	2:09.00
	5	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:09.12
4	4	Stephanie Rice	Australia	2:09.65
5	7	Caitlin Leverenz	United States	2:10.40
6	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.24
7	2	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:11.36
8	8	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:16.18

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