The women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 22 to 23 July 2025. Tess Howley from the United States won the gold medal, Lindsay Looney from the United States took the silver medal and Paola Borrelli from Italy earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round22 July 09:56 Heats 20:53 Semifinals 23 July 19:28 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Liu Zige 2:01.81 21 October 2009 Jinan, China 2009 National Games of China Universiade record Audrey Lacroix 2:05.83 14 August 2007 Bangkok, Thailand 2007 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 2:06.75 2 3 4 2:09.36 3 3 3 2:10.44 4 4 5 2:11.19 5 2 4 Yu Liyan 2:11.59 6 4 6 2:12.43 7 4 3 2:12.46 8 2 3 2:12.48 9 3 6 2:13.07 10 3 5 2:13.10 11 3 7 2:13.82 12 4 2 2:13.95 13 3 2 Hong Jung-hwa 2:14.29 14 2 5 2:14.39 15 2 2 2:14.58 16 2 6 2:16.04 17 2 7 2:16.22 18 3 1 2:17.48 19 2 1 2:19.54 20 4 1 2:24.56 21 4 8 2:26.56 22 3 8 2:29.49 23 2 8 2:38.98 24 1 4 2:45.11 — 4 7 — 1 5 — 1 3

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 2:05.20 , 2 1 4 2:07.98 3 2 5 2:09.48 4 2 3 Yu Liyan 2:09.56 5 1 5 2:09.82 6 2 2 2:11.11 7 1 6 2:11.39 8 1 2 2:11.74 9 1 3 2:11.91 10 2 6 2:12.48 11 1 7 2:12.95 12 1 1 2:13.08 13 2 8 2:15.24 14 2 1 Hong Jung-hwa 2:15.56 14 2 7 2:15.56 16 1 8 2:16.16

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 2:05.69 5 2:07.79 2 2:08.00 4 6 Yu Liyan 2:08.73 5 3 2:09.35 6 8 2:09.89 7 1 2:11.48 8 7 2:11.79

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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