Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 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 10:11.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Kanako Watanabe 2:23.29 Q 2 4 3 Micah Lawrence 2:23.32 Q 3 4 7 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 2:23.54 Q, NR 4 3 1 Fanny Lecluyse 2:23.77 Q, NR 5 5 3 2:23.81 Q 6 5 4 Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:23.90 Q 7 5 2 Jessica Vall 2:23.97 Q 8 4 6 Vitalina Simonova 2:23.99 Q 9 4 5 Taylor McKeown 2:24.02 Q 10 5 5 Shi Jinglin 2:24.09 Q 11 3 3 Kierra Smith 2:24.12 Q 12 5 6 Tessa Wallace 2:24.88 Q 13 5 7 Marina García Urzainqui 2:25.32 Q 14 5 8 Vanessa Grimberg 2:25.74 Q 15 3 4 Rie Kaneto 2:25.75 Q 16 5 1 Jenna Laukkanen 2:25.91 Q, NR 17 3 5 Yuliya Yefimova 2:26.11 18 3 6 Molly Renshaw 2:26.32 19 4 2 Breeja Larson 2:26.38 20 3 7 Ilaria Scarcella 2:26.40 21 3 2 Martha McCabe 2:26.51 22 5 0 Martina Moravčíková 2:28.41 23 4 1 Zhang Xinyu 2:28.57 24 3 9 Tanja Šmid 2:28.64 25 3 8 Yang Ji-won 2:29.24 26 4 9 Julia Sebastian 2:29.28 26 5 9 Anna Sztankovics 2:29.28 28 2 7 Ana Radić 2:29.71 29 3 0 Fiona Doyle 2:29.77 NR 30 1 6 Daniela Carrillo 2:30.65 31 2 8 Maria Romanjuk 2:31.37 NR 32 2 5 Raminta Dvariškytė 2:31.74 33 4 0 Jung Seul-ki 2:31.85 34 2 0 Mercedes Toledo 2:32.69 NR 35 2 3 Victoria Kaminskaya 2:33.73 36 1 3 Samantha Yeo 2:33.85 37 2 2 Aļona Ribakova 2:34.69 38 2 6 Phiangkhwan Pawapotako 2:34.77 39 1 5 Daniela Lindemeier 2:35.17 40 2 1 Jovana Bogdanović 2:35.88 41 4 8 Anastasiya Malyavina 2:36.49 42 2 4 Dariya Talanova 2:37.04 43 1 4 Lin Pei-wun 2:39.19 44 1 2 Mihaela Bat 2:40.57 45 2 9 Sin Jin-hui 2:41.41 46 1 0 Tilka Paljk 2:55.98 47 1 1 Pilar Shimizu 2:56.47 48 1 8 Anum Bandey 2:58.10 49 1 7 Nooran Ba Matraf 3:07.78 50 1 9 Sajina Aishath 3:16.50

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 17:51.Semifinal results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:21.99 Q 2 4 Micah Lawrence 2:22.04 Q 3 6 Vitalina Simonova 2:22.72 Q 4 2 Shi Jinglin 2:23.06 5 5 Fanny Lecluyse 2:23.83 6 7 Tessa Wallace 2:24.68 7 1 Vanessa Grimberg 2:25.36 8 8 Jenna Laukkanen 2:25.45 NR

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Kanako Watanabe 2:22.15 Q 2 7 Kierra Smith 2:22.82 Q 3 8 Rie Kaneto 2:22.88 Q 4 6 Jessica Vall 2:22.90 Q 5 5 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 2:23.06 , NR 6 3 Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes 2:24.01 7 2 Taylor McKeown 2:24.41 8 1 Marina García Urzainqui 2:25.52

Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 19:43.Swim-off results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Shi Jinglin 2:23.75 Q 2 5 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 2:25.11

Final The final was held at 18:25.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Kanako Watanabe 2:21.15 5 Micah Lawrence 2:22.44 1 Jessica Vall 2:22.76 4 Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:22.76 8 Shi Jinglin 2:22.76 6 7 Rie Kaneto 2:23.19 7 6 Vitalina Simonova 2:23.59 8 2 Kierra Smith 2:23.61

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