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

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	26 July (heats and semifinals); 27 July (final)
Competitors	35 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:05.26
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Liu Zige (CHN)	2:01.81	Jinan, China	21 October 2009
Competition record	Jessicah Schipper (AUS)	2:03.41	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009

The heats were held on 26 July at 10:17.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.25	Q
2	4	3	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.50	Q
3	4	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:07.59	Q
4	4	5	Zhou Yilin	China	2:07.72	Q
5	3	3	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.73	Q
6	2	2	An Se-hyeon	South Korea	2:08.06	Q
6	3	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.06	Q
8	3	7	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:08.84	Q
8	2	5	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:08.84	Q
10	4	1	Dakota Luther	United States	2:08.86	Q
11	3	5	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:08.98	Q
12	2	4	Suzuka Hasegawa	Japan	2:09.10	Q
13	2	1	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	2:09.12	Q, WD
14	4	2	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:09.13	Q
15	3	6	Hiroko Makino	Japan	2:09.14	Q
16	4	7	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2:09.21	Q
17	3	2	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:09.34	Q
18	2	7	Park Su-jin	South Korea	2:09.44
19	3	1	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:09.77
20	2	6	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:09.86
21	2	3	Charlotte Atkinson	Great Britain	2:10.68
22	3	0	Klaudia Naziębło	Poland	2:11.34
23	4	9	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:12.09	NR
24	2	0	María José Mata	Mexico	2:12.82
25	2	9	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:12.90
26	4	8	Anastasia Guzhenkova	Russia	2:13.65
27	3	8	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	2:13.71
28	3	9	Maj Howardsen	Denmark	2:13.88
29	2	8	Isabella Paéz	Venezuela	2:14.98
30	1	4	Azra Avdic	Peru	2:15.09
31	4	0	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:15.15
32	1	5	Alicia Mancilla	Guatemala	2:20.58
33	1	3	Damini Gowda	India	2:28.95
34	1	2	Lara Aklouk	Jordan	2:32.35
35	1	6	Alania Suttie	Samoa	2:35.11

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 18:25.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Zhou Yilin	China	2:06.63	Q
2	7	Suzuka Hasegawa	Japan	2:07.01	Q
3	4	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.11	Q
4	3	An Se-hyeon	South Korea	2:07.82	Q
5	6	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:07.89
6	1	Hiroko Makino	Japan	2:07.95
7	8	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:08.71
8	2	Dakota Luther	United States	2:09.55

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:06.29	Q
2	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:06.71	Q
3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.37	Q
4	3	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.67	Q
5	2	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:08.62
6	1	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:08.72
7	8	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2:09.31
8	7	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:10.58

The final was held on 27 July at 18:34.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:05.26
	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:05.39
	7	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:06.02
4	8	An Se-hyeon	South Korea	2:06.67	NR
5	2	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.06
6	6	Suzuka Hasegawa	Japan	2:07.43
7	1	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.58
8	5	Zhou Yilin	China	2:07.67