Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	20 June (heats and semifinals); 21 June (final)
Competitors	39 from 33 nations
Winning time	1:54.92
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

The heats were started on 20 June at 09:16.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Yang Junxuan	China	1:56.58	Q
2	3	5	Madison Wilson	Australia	1:56.85	Q
3	3	6	Leah Smith	United States	1:57.22	Q
3	5	5	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:57.22	Q
5	4	5	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:57.28	Q
6	5	3	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	1:57.53	Q
7	4	1	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	1:57.71	Q
8	4	2	Stephanie Balduccini	Brazil	1:57.81	Q
9	3	3	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	1:57.94	Q
10	4	3	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.14	Q
11	4	6	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:58.26	Q
12	4	4	Tang Muhan	China	1:58.28	Q
13	5	1	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	1:58.33	Q
14	5	2	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:58.41	Q
15	5	6	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:58.76	Q
16	3	2	Katja Fain	Slovenia	1:58.84	Q
17	3	7	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:58.86
18	4	7	Nikolett Pádár	Hungary	1:58.90
19	5	7	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	1:59.48
20	4	8	Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir	Iceland	2:00.61
21	3	1	Marlene Kahler	Austria	2:00.75
22	3	8	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:00.86
23	5	8	Daria Golovaty	Israel	2:01.01
24	2	5	Karen Durango	Colombia	2:01.61
25	4	9	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:02.43
26	3	0	Jung Hyun-young	South Korea	2:02.64
27	5	9	Sofia Åstedt	Sweden	2:03.22
28	5	0	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:03.46
29	3	9	Zhanet Angelova	Bulgaria	2:05.88
30	2	3	Lucero Mejía	Guatemala	2:06.78
31	2	4	Kamonchanok Kwanmuang	Thailand	2:07.20
32	2	6	Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan	2:11.13
33	2	2	Natalia Kuipers	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:12.20
34	2	7	Bianca Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	2:13.84
35	1	5	Tilly Collymore	Grenada	2:15.68
36	2	1	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	2:16.23
37	2	8	Zaira Forson	Ghana	2:20.83
38	1	4	Charissa Panuve	Tonga	2:22.93
39	1	3	Keana Santos	Guam	2:30.08
	4	0	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	Did not start
	5	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 20 June at 19:15.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	1:56.05	Q
2	1	4	Madison Wilson	Australia	1:56.31	Q
3	2	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:56.34	Q
4	1	2	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:56.54	Q
5	2	4	Yang Junxuan	China	1:56.75	Q
6	1	1	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:56.80	Q
7	2	2	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	1:56.82	Q
8	1	7	Tang Muhan	China	1:56.87	Q
9	2	5	Leah Smith	United States	1:56.90
10	2	8	Claire Weinstein	United States	1:56.94
11	2	7	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	1:57.43
12	1	6	Stephanie Balduccini	Brazil	1:57.54
13	1	8	Katja Fain	Slovenia	1:58.00
14	2	6	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	1:58.10
15	2	1	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	1:58.93
–	1	5	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	Disqualified

The final was held on 21 June at 18:17.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	2	Yang Junxuan	China	1:54.92
	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	1:55.22
	8	Tang Muhan	China	1:56.25
4	4	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	1:56.68
5	5	Madison Wilson	Australia	1:56.85
6	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:57.24
6	7	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:57.24
8	1	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	1:57.38