The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the longest of the 3 backstroke events for women at the 2005 Worlds. Preliminary and Semifinals heats were swum 29 July, with the Final heat on 30 July. The top 16 finishers from Prelims advanced to swim again in Semifinals; the top 8 swimmers in Semifinals advanced to swim a third time in the Final.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were: WR: 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), swum 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece CR: 2:07.40, Cihong He (China), swum 11 September 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Preliminaries Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H4 L5 Louise Ørnstedt 2:11.52 q 1 H6 L4 Kirsty Coventry 2:11.52 q 3 H5 L5 Margaret Hoelzer 2:11.74 q 4 H5 L4 Stanislava Komarova 2:11.84 q 5 H6 L3 Hanae Ito 2:12.67 q 6 H4 L4 Reiko Nakamura 2:12.87 q 7 H5 L2 Tayliah Zimmer 2:13.38 q 8 H5 L3 Katy Sexton 2:13.39 q 9 H6 L2 Hannah McLean 2:13.59 q 10 H4 L6 Iryna Amshennikova 2:13.62 q 11 H6 L6 Alessia Filippi 2:13.71 q 12 H3 L4 Jeri Moss 2:13.76 q 13 H5 L6 Annika Liebs 2:13.78 q 14 H4 L3 Zhao Jing 2:13.85 q 15 H4 L7 Chen Yanyan 2:14.35 q 16 H5 L7 Duane Rocha 2:14.38 q 17 H6 L7 Melissa Corfe 2:14.71 18 H6 L8 Katarzyna Staszak 2:14.75 19 H4 L1 Kelly Stefanyshyn 2:15.23 20 H5 L8 Elizabeth Warden 2:15.46 21 H5 L1 Melissa Ingram 2:16.48 22 H2 L4 Gisela Morales 2:17.17 23 H6 L1 Giaan Rooney 2:17.32 24 H4 L2 Therese Svendsen 2:17.43 25 H3 L5 Kateryna Zubkova 2:17.48 25 H6 L5 Alexandra Putra 2:17.48 27 H3 L1 Sadan Derya Erke 2:17.49 28 H3 L2 Danit Kama 2:17.93 29 H3 L8 Anja Čarman 2:18.61 30 H4 L8 Yoo Jin Jung 2:19.57 31 H2 L6 Jane Kaljonen 2:19.67 32 H3 L3 Anna Gostomelsky 2:19.83 33 H3 L6 Man-Hsu Lin 2:20.37 34 H3 L7 Lenka Jarosova 2:21.11 35 H2 L5 Berit Aljand 2:22.27 36 H2 L2 Laura Rodriguez 2:27.78 37 H2 L1 Valeria Silva 2:28.24 38 H1 L6 Imane Boulaamane 2:28.55 39 H2 L7 Bernadette Lee 2:30.60 40 H1 L5 Saida Iskandarova 2:31.42 41 H1 L2 Jonay Briedenhann 2:32.64 42 H1 L3 Weng I Kuan 2:33.05 43 H2 L8 QUAH Ting Wen 2:33.16 44 H1 L1 Sussie Pineda 2:41.02 - H2 L3 Yu Yon Kim DQ - H1 L4 Kiera Aitken DNS - H1 L7 Mireille Hakimeh DNS

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S1 L4 Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe 2:09.88 2 S1 L3 Reiko Nakamura Japan 2:11.17 3 S2 L5 Margaret Hoelzer USA 2:11.32 4 S1 L5 Stanislava Komarova Russia 2:11.58 5 S2 L4 Louise Ørnstedt Denmark 2:11.59 6 S2 L3 Hanae Ito Japan 2:12.05 7 S2 L7 Alessia Filippi Italy 2:12.16 8 S1 L1 Zhao Jing China 2:12.55 9 S2 L2 Hannah McLean New Zealand 2:12.57 10 S1 L2 Iryna Amshennikova Ukraine 2:12.64 11 S2 L1 Annika Liebs Germany 2:13.35 12 S1 L6 Katy Sexton Great Britain 2:13.41 13 S1 L7 Jeri Moss USA 2:13.64 14 S2 L6 Tayliah Zimmer Australia 2:14.68 15 S2 L8 Chen Yanyan China 2:14.92 16 S1 L8 Duane Rocha Spain 2:16.50

Final Place Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe 2:08.52 3 Margaret Hoelzer USA 2:09.94 5 Reiko Nakamura Japan 2:10.41 4 7 Hanae Ito Japan 2:10.98 5 1 Alessia Filippi Italy 2:11.44 6 6 Stanislava Komarova Russia 2:12.03 7 2 Louise Ørnstedt Denmark 2:12.93 8 8 Zhao Jing China 2:13.10

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