The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals and 5 August with the final.Start list

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

Results

Heats The heats were held at 09:49.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Katie Ledecky 1:55.82 Q 2 5 5 Katinka Hosszú 1:56.32 Q 3 6 3 Missy Franklin 1:56.42 Q4 5 3 Shen Duo 1:56.75 Q5 7 3 Veronika Popova 1:57.18 Q6 6 4 Federica Pellegrini 1:57.34 Q7 7 5 Emma McKeon 1:57.78 Q8 7 6 Charlotte Bonnet 1:57.99 Q9 7 4 Femke Heemskerk 1:58.10 Q10 6 6 Michelle Coleman 1:58.11 Q11 6 5 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor 1:58.27 Q11 6 7 Guo Junjun 1:58.27 Q13 5 2 Viktoriya Andreyeva 1:58.31 Q13 5 7 Chihiro Igarashi 1:58.31 Q15 5 1 Nina Rangelova 1:58.41 Q16 5 8 Manuella Lyrio 1:58.68 Q17 7 2 Melanie Wright 1:58.94 18 5 6 Melania Costa 1:59.00 19 5 0 Louise Hansson 1:59.34 20 7 8 Sachi Mochida 1:59.35 21 6 8 Emily Overholt 1:59.61 22 6 2 Alice Mizzau 1:59.68 23 7 7 Coralie Balmy 1:59.70 24 6 1 Lisa Zaiser 1:59.97 25 3 8 Anna Kolářová 2:00.24 26 7 0 Katerine Savard 2:00.30 27 7 1 Larissa Oliveira 2:00.35 28 4 4 Cecilie Johannessen 2:00.67 29 4 5 Katarína Listopadová 2:00.69 30 6 0 Evelyn Verrasztó 2:00.72 31 5 9 Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên 2:00.80 32 6 9 Camille Cheng 2:00.96 33 4 3 Theodora Giareni 2:01.00 34 4 0 Danielle Villars 2:01.0335 3 3 Anastasia Bogdanovski 2:01.28 NR36 4 2 Jessica Camposano 2:01.81 36 4 1 Jasmine Al-Khaldi 2:01.81 38 4 9 Quah Ting Wen 2:02.13 39 3 2 Gaja Natlačen 2:02.32 40 4 8 Kimberly Buys 2:02.54 41 3 6 Gizem Bozkurt 2:02.63 42 4 6 Natthanan Junkrajang 2:02.8343 3 7 Julia Hassler 2:03.08 44 4 7 Katarina Simonović 2:03.21 45 3 1 Monique Olivier 2:03.23 46 3 5 Elisbet Gámez 2:03.56 47 3 4 Sycerika McMahon 2:03.89 48 3 0 Andrea Cedrón 2:04.07 49 2 3 Sara Pastrana 2:06.15 50 2 4 Rebeca Quinteros 2:06.7551 2 1 Arianna Sanna 2:07.24 NR52 2 5 Lani Cabrera 2:07.75 53 2 7 Elena Giovannini 2:07.84 54 3 9 Chrysoula Karamanou 2:09.01 55 2 2 Matelita Buadromo 2:09.07 56 2 6 Lydia Musleh 2:09.74 57 2 0 Nadia Tudo 2:12.21 58 2 9 Nikol Merizaj 2:14.58 59 2 8 Ani Poghosyan 2:16.22 60 1 4 Sofia Shah 2:18.93 61 1 3 Kaya Forson 2:23.72 62 1 6 Aminath Shajan 2:28.75 63 1 5 Nada Arkaji 2:30.40 7 9 Johanna Friedrich

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 4 August at 18:44.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Federica Pellegrini 1:56.23 Q 2 5 Shen Duo 1:56.44 Q 3 4 Katinka Hosszú 1:56.51 Q 4 6 Charlotte Bonnet 1:57.01 5 1 Chihiro Igarashi 1:57.75 6 7 Guo Junjun 1:57.79 7 2 Michelle Coleman 1:58.12 8 8 Manuella Lyrio 1:59.28

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Missy Franklin 1:56.37 Q 2 3 Veronika Popova 1:56.56Q 3 4 Katie Ledecky 1:56.76 Q 4 2 Femke Heemskerk 1:56.91 Q 5 6 Emma McKeon 1:56.95 Q 6 7 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor 1:57.30 7 1 Viktoriya Andreyeva 1:58.14 8 8 Nina Rangelova 1:59.54

Final The final was held at 18:01.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 Katie Ledecky 1:55.16 4 Federica Pellegrini 1:55.32 5 Missy Franklin 1:55.49 4 2 Veronika Popova 1:56.16 5 6 Katinka Hosszú 1:56.19 NR 6 3 Shen Duo 1:56.27 7 8 Emma McKeon 1:56.41 8 1 Femke Heemskerk 1:56.79

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