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

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	24 July (heats and semifinals); 25 July (final)
Competitors	33 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:06.78
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Liu Zige (CHN)	2:01.81	Jinan, China	21 October 2009
Competition record	Jessicah Schipper (AUS)	2:03.41	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009

The heats were held on 24 July at 11:12.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:05.96	Q
2	3	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.60	Q
3	3	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:08.16	Q
4	2	3	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:08.26	Q
5	2	4	Katie Drabot	United States	2:08.33	Q
6	2	5	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.69	Q
6	4	4	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:08.69	Q
8	2	6	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.03	Q
9	4	2	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	2:09.43	Q
10	3	3	Hiroko Makino	Japan	2:09.88	Q
11	4	6	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:09.91	Q, WD
12	3	7	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:10.03	Q
12	4	3	Suzuka Hasegawa	Japan	2:10.03	Q
14	4	0	Laura Lahtinen	Finland	2:10.39	Q, NR
15	3	2	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:10.54	Q
16	4	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:10.63	Q
17	2	7	Park Su-jin	South Korea	2:10.73	Q
18	4	1	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	2:11.09
19	4	8	Remedy Rule	Philippines	2:11.38	NR
20	3	1	Duné Coetzee	South Africa	2:11.92
21	2	8	Quah Jing Wen	Singapore	2:12.48
22	2	1	Lê Thị Mỹ Thảo	Vietnam	2:13.11
23	3	9	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:13.70
24	2	0	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	2:13.78
25	4	9	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:13.83
26	2	2	Zhang Yufei	China	2:14.20
27	2	9	María Fe Muñoz	Peru	2:15.28
28	3	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:15.63
29	3	0	Adinda Kirana	Indonesia	2:20.07
30	1	4	Lia Ana Lima	Angola	2:22.15
31	1	5	Katie Rock	Albania	2:28.58
32	1	6	Junayna Ahmed	Bangladesh	2:34.95
33	1	3	Zaira Forson	Ghana	2:39.20	NR
	4	7	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	DNS

The semifinals were held on 24 July at 21:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.33	Q
2	3	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.14	Q
3	5	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:08.30	Q
4	6	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.06	Q
5	7	Suzuka Hasegawa	Japan	2:09.22
6	2	Hiroko Makino	Japan	2:09.60
7	8	Park Su-jin	South Korea	2:09.97
8	1	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:10.52

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:06.25	Q
2	3	Katie Drabot	United States	2:06.59	Q
3	5	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.83	Q
4	6	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:08.26	Q
5	7	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:09.18
6	2	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	2:09.72
7	1	Laura Lahtinen	Finland	2:10.78
8	8	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:12.72

The final was held on 25 July at 20:02.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:06.78
	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:06.95
	5	Katie Drabot	United States	2:07.04
4	2	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:07.30
5	7	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:07.48
6	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.68
7	1	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:08.70
8	8	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.35