The women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 21 to 22 July 2025. Cavan Gormsen from the United States won the gold medal, Ai Yanhan from China took the silver medal and Isabel Ivey from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round21 July 09:20 Heats 20:19 Semifinals 22 July 19:07 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Ariarne Titmus 1:52.23 12 June 2024 Brisbane, Australia 2024 Australian Swimming Trials Universiade record Siobhán Haughey 1:56.71 25 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 5 5 1:59.23 2 7 3 1:59.83 3 5 4 2:00.17 4 7 5 2:00.33 5 7 2 2:00.59 6 5 3 2:00.67 7 5 6 2:00.82 8 6 4 Ai Yanhan 2:01.07 9 6 3 2:01.08 10 7 6 2:01.18 11 6 2 2:01.23 12 6 1 2:01.25 13 7 4 Ge Chutong 2:01.31 14 7 8 2:01.70 15 7 7 2:01.79 16 5 2 2:01.82 17 6 7 2:01.99 18 6 8 2:02.06 19 6 5 2:02.12 20 5 7 2:02.26 21 4 4 2:02.76 22 4 6 2:03.02 23 4 5 2:03.51 24 5 1 2:03.57 25 5 8 2:03.59 26 4 1 2:05.19 27 4 7 2:05.36 28 3 4 2:05.66 29 4 2 2:06.37 30 4 3 2:06.50 31 7 1 2:06.57 32 3 5 2:07.20 33 4 8 Chan Zi Yi 2:07.67 34 3 3 2:07.73 35 1 3 2:08.70 36 3 2 2:08.88 37 3 1 2:09.13 38 3 7 2:12.67 39 2 5 2:13.93 40 3 8 2:14.32 41 2 4 2:17.13 42 2 2 2:18.38 43 2 3 2:20.08 44 1 5 2:21.11 45 2 7 2:21.14 46 2 6 2:28.43 47 1 4 3:12.10
Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round. Ge Chutong withdrew from the semifinals and Julia Pujadas took her place.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1 4 1:58.22 2 1 3 1:58.49 3 2 2 1:58.59 3 1 6 Ai Yanhan 1:58.59 5 1 5 1:58.99 6 2 3 1:59.03 7 2 5 1:59.22 8 2 4 1:59.25 9 1 2 1:59.43 10 2 6 2:00.35 11 2 7 2:00.52 12 1 8 2:01.04 13 2 1 2:01.24 14 2 8 2:01.64 15 1 7 2:01.71 16 1 1 2:01.83
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 1:57.21 3 Ai Yanhan 1:57.55 8 1:57.58 4 5 1:57.85 5 6 1:58.39 6 1 1:58.76 7 2 1:58.87 8 7 1:58.90
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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