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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 June (heats and semifinals); 24 June (final)
Competitors	25 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:05.08
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 and 24 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Regan Smith (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019
Competition record	Regan Smith (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019

The heats were started on 23 June at 09:19.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:07.89	Q
2	2	3	Peng Xuwei	China	2:08.53	Q
3	2	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.64	Q
4	1	4	Rhyan White	United States	2:09.12	Q
5	3	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.26	Q
6	3	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.37	Q
7	3	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.88	Q
8	3	7	Emma Terebo	France	2:11.17	Q
9	1	5	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:11.47	Q
10	2	6	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:11.48	Q
11	2	2	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:11.62	Q
12	1	7	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:12.69	Q
13	1	6	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:13.30	Q
14	3	2	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.45	Q
15	2	7	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:14.02	Q
16	2	1	Jimena Leguizamón	Colombia	2:16.38	Q
17	1	1	Alexia Sotomayor	Peru	2:16.65
18	3	8	Xenia Ignatova	Kazakhstan	2:17.04
19	1	8	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	2:20.93
20	3	0	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:21.34
21	3	9	Samantha van Vuure	Curaçao	2:29.87
22	2	0	Ridima Veerendrakumar	India	2:35.78
23	2	9	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	2:53.55	NR
	2	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	Disqualified
	3	1	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	Disqualified
	1	0	Yarinda Sunthornrangsri	Thailand	Did not start
	1	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel
	1	3	Liu Yaxin	China
	3	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada

The semifinals were started on 23 June at 18:21.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.93	Q
2	2	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:06.41	Q
3	1	5	Rhyan White	United States	2:07.04	Q
4	2	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.28	Q
5	1	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:09.19	Q
6	1	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.23	Q
7	2	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:09.94	Q
8	2	2	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:10.07	Q
9	2	7	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:10.42	NR
10	2	1	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:10.48
11	1	2	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:10.87
12	1	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:11.77
13	1	7	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:13.15
14	1	1	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:14.10
15	2	8	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:14.14
16	1	8	Jimena Leguizamón	Colombia	2:15.11

The final was held on 24 June at 18:53.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:05.08
	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.12
	3	Rhyan White	United States	2:06.96
4	6	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:07.27
5	7	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.00
6	2	Peng Xuwei	China	2:09.13
7	1	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.08
8	8	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:10.37