2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200m Breaststroke at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	16 December 2012 (heats and final)
Winning time	2:16.08
Medalists
Rikke Møller Pedersen   Denmark   Laura Sogar   United States   Kanako Watanabe   Japan

Main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:14.57	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:16.39	Dubai	19 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
16 December	Final	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.08	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	7	Laura Sogar (USA)	2:17.85	Q
2	5	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:18.65	Q
3	3	3	Maria Temnikova (RUS)	2:20.96	Q
4	5	1	Andrea Kropp (USA)	2:21.23	Q
5	3	1	Alia Atkinson (JAM)	2:21.69	Q
6	5	6	Tera van Beilen (CAN)	2:21.84	Q
7	5	3	Martha McCabe (CAN)	2:21.91	Q
8	3	6	Kanako Watanabe (JPN)	2:21.99	Q
9	3	5	Hanna Dzerkal (UKR)	2:22.79
10	4	4	Sally Foster (AUS)	2:23.01
11	5	5	Vitalina Simonova (RUS)	2:23.22
12	3	4	Marina García Urzainqui (ESP)	2:23.79
13	4	6	Jenna Laukkanen (FIN)	2:23.81
14	1	1	Sun Ye (CHN)	2:24.26
15	5	2	Dilara Buse Günaydın (TUR)	2:24.35
16	4	7	Martina Moravčíková (CZE)	2:24.46
17	4	3	Fumiko Kawanabe (JPN)	2:24.58
18	1	7	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir (ISL)	2:24.59
19	4	8	Caroline Ruhnau (GER)	2:24.66
20	4	1	Hannah Miley (GBR)	2:25.81
21	4	5	Joline Höstman (SWE)	2:25.92
22	1	2	Ji Liping (CHN)	2:26.03
23	4	2	Elin Mårtensson (SWE)	2:27.19
24	3	8	Samantha Marshall (AUS)	2:28.08
25	3	2	Back Su-Yeon (KOR)	2:28.36
26	5	7	Fanny Babou (FRA)	2:28.71
27	5	0	Alona Ribakova (LAT)	2:28.74
28	1	5	Sophie Allen (GBR)	2:28.77
29	5	8	Jessica Pengelly (RSA)	2:28.92
30	4	0	Julia Sebastian (ARG)	2:29.40
31	3	0	Beatriz Travalon (BRA)	2:35.11
32	2	3	Daniela Lindemeier (NAM)	2:35.12
33	3	9	Dariya Talanova (KGZ)	2:35.20
34	2	5	Isabel Riquelme (CHI)	2:37.25
35	2	4	Michaela Millo (MLT)	2:39.85	NR
36	2	1	Barbara Vali-Skelton (PNG)	2:43.75
37	2	7	Lianna Catherine Swan (PAK)	2:48.24
38	2	9	Tegan McCarthy (PNG)	2:50.44
39	2	8	Patricia Cani (ALB)	2:50.69
40	2	6	Jaywant Arcot Vijaykumar (IND)	2:51.00
41	1	6	Bonita Imisirovic (BOT)	2:53.92
42	2	0	Anum Bandey (PAK)	2:54.23
43	1	3	Domoinanavalona Amboaratiana (MAD)	3:03.15
44	1	4	Shne Joachim (VIN)	3:05.63
	4	9	Raminta Dvariškytė (LTU)	DSQ
	5	9	Samantha Yeo (SIN)	DSQ
	1	8	Mercedes Toledo Salazar (VEN)	DNS
	2	2	Elodie Poo Cheong (MRI)	DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:24.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.08	CR, ER
	4	Laura Sogar	United States	2:16.93
	8	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:19.39
4	3	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:19.76
5	6	Andrea Kropp	United States	2:20.08
6	1	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:20.70
7	7	Tera van Beilen	Canada	2:21.11
8	2	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:21.64