Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 Breaststroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	28 July (prelims, semifinals) 29 July (final)
Competitors	42 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:21.72 WR
Medalists
Leisel Jones   Australia   Anne Poleska   Germany   Mirna Jukić   Austria

Main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships

The women's 200 breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 28–29 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 28 July, with the Prelims during the morning session and the Semifinals during the evening session. The Final swam in the evening session on 29 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:22.44, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 12 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA
• CR: 2:22.99, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:27.31	q
2	H6 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:27.63	q
3	H5 L3	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:28.06	q
4	H6 L2	Katarzyna Dulian	Poland	2:28.45	q
5	H5 L4	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:28.47	q
6	H6 L5	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	2:28.75	q
7	H4 L2	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:29.02	q
8	H4 L3	Ekaterina Kormatcheva	Russia	2:29.07	q
9	H5 L7	Tamaryn Laubscher	South Africa	2:29.80	q
10	H5 L5	Kristen Caverly	United States	2:30.03	q
11	H5 L6	Nanaka Tamura	Japan	2:30.52	q
12	H6 L7	Diana Gomes	Portugal	2:30.59	q
13	H6 L8	Christin Petelski	Canada	2:30.75	q
14	H5 L1	Seul-Ki Jung	South Korea	2:30.82	q
15	H6 L6	Sara Pérez	Spain	2:30.93	q
16	H4 L4	Tara Kirk	United States	2:31.48	q
17	H4 L1	Kathleen Stoody	Canada	2:32.18
18	H4 L8	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	2:32.47
19	H5 L8	Josefin Wede	Sweden	2:32.48
20	H6 L3	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	2:32.93
21	H4 L6	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	2:33.41
22	H3 L4	Ina Kapishina	Belarus	2:33.80
23	H6 L1	Kelly Bentley	New Zealand	2:33.93
24	H4 L7	Marina Kuč	Serbia and Montenegro	2:34.04
25	H3 L6	Su Yeon Back	South Korea	2:34.89
26	H3 L7	Binan Wu	China	2:34.94
27	H3 L2	Eeva Saarinen	Finland	2:35.60
28	H3 L8	Tamara Sambrailo	Slovenia	2:35.75
29	H2 L4	Petra Chocova	Czech Republic	2:35.98
30	H5 L2	Angeliki Exarchou	Greece	2:36.18
31	H2 L1	Annabelle Carey	New Zealand	2:36.72
32	H2 L5	Chenfei Ma	China	2:38.54
33	H3 L1	Man-Hsu Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:41.11
34	H2 L7	Nicolette Teo	Singapore	2:42.71
35	H2 L3	Yu-Chia Tong	Chinese Taipei	2:43.61
36	H2 L6	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:44.17
37	H2 L2	Qiyu Sandy Mo	Singapore	2:44.22
38	H1 L4	Dannielle Van Zijl	Namibia	2:44.80
39	H1 L5	Sin Ian Lei	Macau	2:52.20
40	H1 L3	Mayumi Raheem	Sri Lanka	2:56.09
--	--	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	DNS
--	--	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:25.30	q
2	S2 L4	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:26.22	q
3	S2 L3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:26.85	q
4	S1 L8	Tara Kirk	USA	2:27.31	q
5	S2 L5	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:27.70	q
6	S1 L5	Katarzyna Dulian	Poland	2:27.96	q
7	S2 L6	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:28.09	q
8	S1 L2	Kristen Caverly	USA	2:28.82	q
9	S1 L3	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	2:28.87
10	S2 L2	Tamaryn Laubscher	South Africa	2:28.90
11	S2 L8	Sara Pérez	Spain	2:29.56
12	S2 L7	Nanaka Tamura	Japan	2:29.68
13	S1 L6	Ekaterina Kormatcheva	Russia	2:30.23
14	S1 L7	Diana Gomes	Portugal	2:30.29
15	S1 L1	Seul-Ki Jung	South Korea	2:30.33
16	S2 L1	Christin Petelski	Canada	2:31.18

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:21.72	WR
2	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:25.84
3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:27.11
4	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:27.65
5	Katarzyna Dulian	Poland	2:27.85
6	Tara Kirk	USA	2:28.60
6	Kristen Caverly	USA	2:28.60
8	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:29.44