The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordFederica Pellegrini 1:52.98 RomeJuly 29, 2009

Results

Heats 49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 5 Allison Schmitt 1:56.66 Q 2 7 4 Federica Pellegrini 1:56.87 Q 3 5 4 Bronte Barratt 1:57.37 Q 4 5 6 Ágnes Mutina 1:57.40 Q 5 6 4 Kylie Palmer 1:57.42 Q 6 5 5 Femke Heemskerk 1:57.43 Q 7 7 6 Silke Lippok 1:57.53 Q 8 6 1 Lauren Boyle 1:57.72 Q 9 7 5 Camille Muffat 1.57.99 Q 10 4 4 Sara Isakovič 1:58.01 Q 11 7 8 Melania Costa Schmid 1:58.04 Q 12 6 3 Sarah Sjöström 1:58.26 Q 12 6 8 Barbara Jardin 1:58.26 Q 14 7 7 Evelyn Verrasztó 1:58.27 Q 15 6 6 Tang Yi 1:58.30 Q 16 6 2 Haruka Ueda 1:58.74 swimoff 16 7 1 Hanae Ito 1:58.74 swimoff 18 5 1 Samantha Cheverton 1:58.83 19 5 3 Veronika Popova 1:58.89 20 7 2 Morgan Scroggy 1:59.22 21 7 3 Zhu Qianwei 1:59.22 22 5 8 Nina Rangelova 1:59.30 23 5 7 Joanne Jackson 1:59.36 24 5 2 Rebecca Adlington 1:59.40 25 4 1 Karin Prinsloo 1:59.52 26 4 2 Pernille Blume 1:59.96 27 6 7 Gabriella Fagundez 2:00.05 28 4 3 Sze Hang Yu 2:00.52 29 4 5 Cecilie Johannessen 2:00.56 30 3 3 Joerdis Steinegger 2:01.06 31 3 5 Melanie Nocher 2:01.33 32 4 6 Daryna Zevina 2:01.50 33 4 7 Anna Stylianou 2:01.62 34 3 4 Liliana Ibanez 2:01.70 35 4 8 Katarina Filova 2:01.96 36 3 8 Katarina Listopadova 2:02.15 37 3 7 Ranohon Amanova 2:02.89 38 3 2 Kim Jungh-Hye 2:03.13 39 3 1 Natthanan Junkrajang 2:03.68 40 2 4 Andrea Cedrón 2:08.10 41 2 1 Bayan Jumah 2:09.08 42 2 2 Branka Vranjes 2:09.64 43 2 3 Heather Arseth 2:10.93 44 2 7 Olivia de Maroussem 2:12.28 45 2 6 Ma Cheok Mei 2:12.39 46 2 8 Britany van Lange 2:16.40 47 1 3 Victoria Chentsova 2:27.86 48 1 5 Aure Fanchette 2:31.88 49 1 6 Jennet Saryyeva 2:41.27 – 1 4 Gouri Kotecha DNS – 2 5 Victoria Ho DNS – 3 6 Andreina Pinto DNS

Swimoff As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Haruka Ueda 1:58.19 Q 2 5 Hanae Ito 1:58.55

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 19:14.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Femke Heemskerk 1:55.54 Q 2 4 Federica Pellegrini 1:56.42 Q 3 7 Sarah Sjöström 1:56.71 Q 4 5 Ágnes Mutina 1:57.53 5 6 Lauren Boyle 1:58.09 6 8 Haruka Ueda 1:58.28 7 2 Sara Isakovič 1:58.52 8 1 Evelyn Verrasztó 1:59.71

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Kylie Palmer 1:56.59 Q 2 2 Camille Muffat 1:56.62 Q 3 5 Bronte Barratt 1:56.90 Q 4 6 Silke Lippok 1:57.02 Q 5 4 Allison Schmitt 1:57.07 Q 6 7 Melania Costa Schmid 1:57.83 NR 7 8 Tang Yi 1:57.91 8 1 Barbara Jardin 1:58.18

Final The final was held at 18:32.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Federica Pellegrini 1:55.58 3 Kylie Palmer 1:56.04 6 Camille Muffat 1:56.10 4 2 Sarah Sjöström 1:56.41 5 7 Bronte Barratt 1:56.60 6 8 Allison Schmitt 1:56.98 7 4 Femke Heemskerk 1:57.63 8 1 Silke Lippok 1:58.26

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.