Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	28 July (heats and semifinals); 29 July (final)
Competitors	33 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:05.68
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.06	London, Great Britain	3 August 2012
Competition record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.76	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013

The heats were held on 28 July at 10:31.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:06.82	Q
2	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.30	Q
3	2	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:07.94	Q
4	3	6	Regan Smith	United States	2:08.13	Q
5	2	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.30	Q
6	3	5	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:08.32	Q
7	4	3	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:09.16	Q
8	4	2	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.42	Q
9	4	7	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:09.43	Q
10	3	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:09.70	Q
11	4	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.86	Q
12	4	5	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:09.99	Q
13	2	3	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:10.10	Q
14	3	3	Liu Yaxin	China	2:10.59	Q
15	2	7	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:11.17	Q
16	3	2	Claudia Lau	Hong Kong	2:11.67	Q
17	4	1	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:11.80
18	2	6	Chen Jie	China	2:11.88
19	2	1	Klaudia Naziębło	Poland	2:12.25
20	3	1	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:13.26
21	2	2	Rosie Rudin	Great Britain	2:13.27
22	2	8	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:14.07
23	4	0	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:14.34
24	3	8	Bobbi Gichard	New Zealand	2:15.97
25	3	0	Karolina Hájková	Slovakia	2:16.42
26	2	9	Fernanda González	Mexico	2:17.03
27	3	9	Samantha Randle	South Africa	2:17.14
28	4	9	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:18.69
29	2	0	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:19.11
30	1	4	Celina Marquez	El Salvador	2:22.73
31	1	5	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	2:29.27
32	1	3	Osisang Chilton	Palau	2:46.60
	4	8	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	DNS

The semifinals were held on 28 July at 17:49.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:07.08	Q
2	5	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.19	Q, WJ
3	6	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:07.40	Q
4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.51	Q
5	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:07.64	Q
6	1	Liu Yaxin	China	2:09.02
7	2	África Zamorano	Spain	2:09.73
8	8	Claudia Lau	Hong Kong	2:14.82

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:05.81	Q, OC
2	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:05.97	Q, NR
3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:06.66	Q
4	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.30
5	7	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:08.65
6	1	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:09.00
7	2	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:10.95
8	8	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:11.27

The final was held on 29 July at 17:47.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:05.68	OC
	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:05.85	NR
	3	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:06.48
4	7	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:06.76	WJ
5	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:07.04
6	8	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:07.15
7	6	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:07.35
8	2	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.42