Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	26 July 2019 (heats and semifinals); 27 July 2019 (final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:03.69
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.06	London, United Kingdom	3 August 2012
Competition record	Missy Franklin (USA)	2:04.76	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Semifinal	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	WR

The heats were held on 26 July at 10:23.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Regan Smith	United States	2:06.01	Q, WJ
2	4	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.34	Q
3	5	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.51	Q
4	5	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.17	Q
5	4	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.18	Q
6	5	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:09.32	Q
7	5	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.70	Q
8	5	1	Ali Galyer	New Zealand	2:09.98	Q
9	3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:10.08	Q
10	4	1	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:10.29	Q
11	4	2	Anastasia Avdeeva	Russia	2:10.34	Q
12	4	6	Natsumi Sakai	Japan	2:10.40	Q
13	5	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.50	Q
14	4	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:10.67	Q
15	3	6	Liu Yaxin	China	2:10.72	Q
16	3	7	Jessica Fullalove	Great Britain	2:11.08	Q
17	3	1	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:11.16
17	4	0	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:11.16
19	3	8	Simona Kubová	Czech Republic	2:11.29
20	3	2	Im Da-sol	South Korea	2:11.33
21	4	8	Zuzanna Herasimowicz	Poland	2:11.57
22	4	7	Peng Xuwei	China	2:12.41
23	3	3	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:12.64
24	5	9	Ingeborg Løyning	Norway	2:13.25	NR
25	2	5	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:13.26	NR
26	5	8	Nathania van Niekerk	South Africa	2:13.37
27	2	6	Kristina Steina	Latvia	2:14.00	NR
28	5	0	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:14.15
29	4	9	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:14.46
30	2	2	Felicity Passon	Seychelles	2:14.60
31	5	2	Rio Shirai	Japan	2:14.98
32	3	0	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:15.24
33	3	9	Ana Herceg	Croatia	2:16.29
34	2	3	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:17.30
35	2	4	Toto Wong	Hong Kong	2:17.57
36	2	7	Elizaveta Rogozhnikova	Kyrgyzstan	2:20.55
37	1	4	Mia Krstevska	North Macedonia	2:23.13
38	2	8	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:25.13
39	2	0	Eda Zeqiri	Kosovo	2:27.11
40	1	5	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	2:27.35
41	2	1	Camille Koenig	Mauritius	2:28.32
42	1	3	Idealy Tendrinavalona	Madagascar	2:29.80

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 20:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:07.38	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.48	Q
3	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.19	Q
4	1	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:08.42	Q
5	7	Natsumi Sakai	Japan	2:10.11
6	6	Ali Galyer	New Zealand	2:10.19
7	2	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:10.82
8	8	Jessica Fullalove	Great Britain	2:11.12

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	Q, WR, WJ
2	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:06.57	Q
3	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.62	Q
4	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.40	Q
5	2	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:09.68
6	7	Anastasia Avdeeva	Russia	2:09.78
7	1	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.54
8	8	Liu Yaxin	China	2:12.93

The final was started on 27 July at 20:58.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.69
	7	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:06.26
	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:06.62
4	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.67
5	1	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:07.50
6	6	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:08.26
7	8	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:08.65
8	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.08