Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	21 June (heats and semifinals); 22 June (final)
Competitors	25 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:05.20
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 June 2022.^[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 started on 21 June at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:07.26	Q
2	1	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:07.31	Q
3	3	5	Kina Hayashi	Japan	2:08.63	Q
4	2	3	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:08.98	Q
5	2	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:09.02	Q
6	3	4	Zhang Yufei	China	2:09.21	Q
7	2	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:09.24	Q
7	3	2	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:09.24	Q
9	1	2	María Mata	Mexico	2:09.32	Q, NR
10	1	5	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:10.07	Q
11	1	6	Abbey Connor	Australia	2:10.10	Q
12	3	7	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:10.20	Q
13	3	3	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:11.20	Q
14	3	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.22	Q
15	3	1	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:11.40	Q
16	2	6	Chiho Mizuguchi	Japan	2:11.65	Q
17	2	2	Quah Jing Wen	Singapore	2:11.79
18	2	7	Giovanna Diamante	Brazil	2:12.39
19	2	1	Georgia Damasioti	Greece	2:13.12
20	3	8	Karen Durango	Colombia	2:14.20
21	2	8	Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus	Thailand	2:15.89
22	1	8	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:17.40
23	1	1	Thị Mỹ Thảo Lê	Vietnam	2:18.65
24	3	0	Alondra Ortíz	Costa Rica	2:19.01
25	2	0	Hayley Wong	Brunei	2:35.48
	1	7	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 21 June at 19:18.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:05.79	Q, WJR, NR
2	1	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:05.90	Q
3	2	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.13	Q
4	1	7	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.58	Q, NR
5	1	3	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.76	Q
6	1	5	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:07.77	Q
7	1	6	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:07.82	Q
8	2	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.89	Q
9	2	5	Kina Hayashi	Japan	2:08.32
10	1	2	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:08.47
11	2	2	María Mata	Mexico	2:09.78
12	2	7	Abbey Connor	Australia	2:09.88
13	1	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.64
14	2	1	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:11.19
15	2	8	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:11.31
16	1	8	Chiho Mizuguchi	Japan	2:12.54

The final was held on 22 June at 18:02.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:05.20	WJR, NR
	5	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:06.08
	2	Zhang Yufei	China	2:06.32
4	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:06.79
5	7	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:07.01
6	6	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.85
7	8	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:08.12
7	1	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:08.12