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

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	21 July (heats and semifinals); 22 July (final)
Competitors	36 from 30 nations
Winning time	2:07.53
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 21 and 22 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records[edit]

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

World record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	3 August 2015
Competition record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	3 August 2015

The heats were held on 21 July at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.02	Q
2	3	5	Ye Shiwen	China	2:09.45	Q
3	2	5	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:09.69	Q
4	4	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:10.34	Q
5	2	3	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:10.50	Q
6	3	6	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:10.54	Q
7	4	3	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:10.99	Q
8	3	3	Ella Eastin	United States	2:11.06	Q
9	4	4	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:11.09	Q
10	2	4	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:11.45	Q
11	4	7	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.92	Q, NR
12	4	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:12.16	Q
13	3	2	Fantine Lesaffre	France	2:12.34	Q
14	2	6	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:12.35	Q
15	4	1	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:12.42	Q
16	2	2	Yu Yiting	China	2:12.98	Q
17	3	1	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:13.29
18	3	7	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	2:13.90
19	3	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:13.97
20	2	7	Viktoriya Belyakova	Russia	2:14.65
21	4	2	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:17.93
22	4	8	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	2:15.96
23	4	9	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:16.28
24	2	8	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	2:16.53
25	3	0	McKenna DeBever	Peru	2:16.97
26	4	0	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	2:17.79
27	2	1	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:18.34
28	3	9	Claudia Gadea	Romania	2:19.03
29	2	9	Aleksandra Knop	Poland	2:20.18
30	1	4	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	2:20.66
31	1	3	Julimar Avila	Honduras	2:20.93
32	1	5	Mya Azzopardi	Malta	2:25.24
33	1	6	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:26.49
34	2	0	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:26.55
35	1	2	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	2:30.68
36	1	7	Kaya Forson	Ghana	2:34.59	NR

The semifinals were held on 21 July at 21:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:08.83	Q
2	4	Ye Shiwen	China	2:09.58	Q
3	2	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:10.21	Q
4	1	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:10.72	NR
5	6	Ella Eastin	United States	2:10.72
6	8	Yu Yiting	China	2:11.60
7	7	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:12.12
8	3	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:12.96

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.17	Q
2	5	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:09.14	Q
3	3	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:09.68	Q
4	2	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:10.04	Q
5	6	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:10.49	Q
6	1	Fantine Lesaffre	France	2:12.18
7	8	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:12.40
8	7	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:13.90

The final was held on 22 July at 21:25.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.53
	6	Ye Shiwen	China	2:08.60
	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:08.70
4	3	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:08.91
5	2	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:09.32
6	1	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:10.12
7	8	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:10.43
	7	Yui Ohashi	Japan	DSQ