Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	August 1, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 2, 2013 (final)
Competitors	37 from 31 nations
Winning time	2:19.41
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Rebecca Soni (USA)	2:19.59	London, Great Britain	2 August 2012	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Annamay Pierse (CAN)	2:20.12	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009	^[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
1 August	Semifinal 1	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	WR, CR

The heats were held at 10:37.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:21.74	Q
2	4	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:22.20	Q
3	2	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:23.13	Q
4	4	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.91	Q
5	2	6	Marina García	Spain	2:24.21	Q
6	3	6	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:24.65	Q, NR
7	3	2	Shi Jinglin	China	2:25.73	Q
8	3	5	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:25.91	Q
9	3	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.62	Q
10	4	3	Breeja Larson	United States	2:26.90	Q
11	3	4	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:27.31	Q
12	3	3	Sally Foster	Australia	2:27.41	Q
13	2	7	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	2:27.47	Q
14	2	3	Yang Ji-Won	South Korea	2:27.78	Q
15	3	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:28.04	Q, NR
16	4	7	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:28.12	Q
17	4	8	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:28.15
18	4	1	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:28.35	NR
19	4	6	Joline Hostman	Sweden	2:28.41
20	2	8	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:30.49	NR
21	4	2	Tera van Beilen	Canada	2:31.34
22	2	1	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:31.49
23	1	5	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:31.99
24	1	4	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	2:32.55
25	2	9	Esther González	Mexico	2:32.82
26	4	9	Julia Sebastián	Argentina	2:32.88
27	3	9	Alona Ribakova	Latvia	2:33.07
28	1	6	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:33.48	NR
29	2	0	Raminta Dvariškytė	Lithuania	2:33.84
30	2	2	Hanna Dzerkal	Ukraine	2:34.06
31	1	3	Tara-Lynn Nicholas	South Africa	2:34.41
32	4	0	Ioana Alexandra Popa	Romania	2:34.66
33	1	2	Daniela Lindemeier	Namibia	2:37.47	NR
34	1	7	Irene Chrysostomou	Cyprus	2:39.65
35	1	8	Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	2:47.99
36	1	0	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	2:55.65	NR
	3	0	Lisa Zaiser	Austria		DSQ
	1	1	Ngô Thị Ngọc Quỳnh	Vietnam		DNS
	3	1	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:20.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Q, WR
2	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.28	Q
3	7	Sally Foster	Australia	2:24.14	Q
4	3	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:24.19	Q, NR
5	6	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:24.68	Q
6	2	Breeja Larson	United States	2:26.22
7	1	Yang Ji-Won	South Korea	2:27.67
8	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:29.30

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:19.85	Q
2	3	Marina García	Spain	2:22.88	Q, NR
3	4	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:23.23	Q
4	6	Shi Jinglin	China	2:25.52
5	1	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	2:25.61
6	7	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:25.77
7	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:27.00
8	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:29.86

The final was held at 18:55.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:19.41	NR
	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:20.08
	6	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:22.37
4	2	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:22.96
5	1	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:23.01	NR
6	3	Marina García	Spain	2:23.55
7	7	Sally Foster	Australia	2:24.01
8	8	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:25.21