The women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 17 to 18 July 2025. Leah Shackley from the United States won the gold medal, Kennedy Noble from the United States took the silver medal and Lee Eun-ji from South Korea earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round17 July 10:06 Heats 19:26 Semifinals 18 July 20:21 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Kaylee McKeown 2:03.14 10 March 2023 Sydney, Australia 2023 NSW Open Championships Universiade record Lisa Bratton 2:07.91 5 July 2019 Naples, Italy 2019 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 4 4 2:09.64 2 4 5 Lee Eun-ji 2:10.51 3 3 4 2:11.09 4 2 4 2:11.42 5 3 6 2:11.49 6 3 7 Lee Yun-jung 2:11.72 7 3 2 2:11.80 8 4 6 2:11.92 9 2 5 2:11.94 10 3 1 Han An-chi 2:11.96 11 4 3 2:12.65 12 2 6 2:12.69 13 3 5 2:12.71 14 3 3 2:12.72 15 4 2 2:14.80 16 2 3 2:14.84 17 2 7 2:15.76 18 4 7 2:16.03 19 2 2 2:17.12 20 4 1 2:17.28 21 2 1 2:17.41 22 4 8 2:17.49 23 2 8 2:21.10 24 1 4 2:24.05 25 1 5 2:24.55 26 3 8 2:25.61 27 1 3 2:31.24 28 1 6 2:38.84

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.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 4 2:06.93 2 2 5 2:06.97 3 1 5 2:09.50 4 2 2 2:10.10 5 1 4 Lee Eun-ji 2:10.29 6 2 6 2:10.45 7 1 6 2:10.85 8 1 7 2:11.08 9 2 3 2:11.32 10 1 1 2:11.37 11 2 7 2:11.87 12 2 1 2:11.94 13 1 3 Lee Yun-jung 2:12.22 14 1 2 Han An-chi 2:12.47 15 1 8 2:14.72 16 2 8 2:14.99

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 2:05.99 5 2:07.82 2 Lee Eun-ji 2:08.29 4 3 2:08.96 5 1 2:10.19 6 7 2:10.39 7 6 2:12.45 8 8 2:12.66

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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