2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	16 December
Competitors	30
Winning time	2:18.32
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:14.57	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.08	Istanbul	16 December 2012

The heats were started on 16 December at 9:52.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	7	Annie Lazor	United States	2:18.99	Q
2	2	5	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:20.31	Q
3	2	4	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:20.38	Q
4	2	2	Bethany Galat	United States	2:20.58	Q
5	4	3	Yu Jingyao	China	2:20.66	Q
6	4	4	Ye Shiwen	China	2:20.73	Q
7	3	4	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:21.12	Q
8	2	3	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:21.22	Q
9	4	5	Miho Takahashi	Japan	2:21.37
10	3	3	Runa Imai	Japan	2:21.85
11	3	6	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:22.12
12	3	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:22.38
13	4	2	Jessica Hansen	Australia	2:23.36
14	2	6	Julia Sebastián	Argentina	2:24.08
15	3	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:24.12
16	4	1	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:24.30
17	4	8	Fantine Lesaffre	France	2:25.07
18	4	7	Raquel Gomes Pereira	Portugal	2:25.28
19	3	0	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:25.83
20	2	0	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:26.17
21	3	9	Niamh Coyne	Ireland	2:26.64
22	4	0	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:26.82
23	3	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:26.84
24	3	8	Ciara Smith	New Zealand	2:28.12
25	1	3	Rebecca Kamau	Kenya	2:29.49
26	3	2	Emily Visagie	South Africa	2:31.30
27	2	1	Lin Pei-wun	Chinese Taipei	2:31.32
28	1	4	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	2:32.83
29	4	9	Lam Hoi Kiu	Hong Kong	2:33.08
30	1	5	Elisa Funes	El Salvador	2:38.43
	2	8	Cornelia Pammer	Austria	DNS
	4	6	Jessica Steiger	Germany	DNS

The final was held on 16 December at 18:41.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Annie Lazor	United States	2:18.32
	6	Bethany Galat	United States	2:18.62
	5	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:18.85
4	2	Yu Jingyao	China	2:19.20
5	1	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:19.37
6	7	Ye Shiwen	China	2:19.52
7	3	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:19.58
8	8	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:20.33

^ "Competition Schedule". Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ Heats results
^ Final results