Swimming at the 2025 Summer World University Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 20 to 21 July 2025. Yumeno Kusuda from Japan won the gold medal, Yuyumi Obatake from Japan took the silver medal and Aina González from Spain earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round20 July 10:38 Heats 20:32 Semifinals 21 July 20:52 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Evgeniia Chikunova 2:17.55 21 April 2023 Kazan, Russia 2023 Russian Championships Universiade record Rie Kaneto 2:22.32 9 July 2009 Belgrade, Serbia 2009 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 4 2:28.37 2 5 6 2:29.22 3 3 5 2:29.32 4 4 4 2:29.55 5 4 3 2:29.57 6 5 3 2:29.88 7 5 5 2:29.96 8 5 7 2:30.10 9 3 3 2:30.33 10 3 2 2:30.65 11 4 2 2:30.69 12 4 5 2:30.84 13 4 6 2:30.94 14 3 4 2:31.41 15 5 8 2:31.76 16 5 2 2:31.95 17 3 6 2:32.26 18 3 1 2:32.65 19 4 1 2:34.50 20 2 4 2:34.70 21 3 7 2:35.11 22 4 8 2:35.46 23 2 5 2:35.55 24 5 1 Yun Eun-sol 2:36.02 25 3 8 2:36.24 26 4 7 Lam Hoi Kiu 2:36.87 27 2 3 2:39.75 28 2 6 2:41.80 29 2 7 2:47.68 30 2 2 2:47.75 31 1 7 2:48.65 32 1 4 2:49.77 33 2 1 2:50.87 34 2 8 2:55.01 35 1 3 2:55.38 36 1 2 2:58.08 37 1 6 3:04.86 38 1 5 3:05.69

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 2:27.35 2 2 2 2:27.74 3 1 7 2:27.93 4 2 3 2:28.16 5 1 3 2:28.78 6 2 5 2:28.90 7 2 1 2:28.97 8 1 5 2:29.04 9 1 4 2:29.28 10 1 6 2:29.42 11 2 6 2:29.43 12 1 1 2:29.90 13 2 7 2:30.73 14 2 8 2:31.45 15 1 2 2:31.46 16 1 8 2:35.29

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 2:26.15 7 2:28.17 3 2:28.48 4 5 2:28.82 5 8 2:29.55 6 6 2:29.56 7 1 2:30.49 8 2 2:34.27

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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