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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	22 June (heats and semifinals); 23 June (final)
Competitors	28 from 24 nations
Winning time	2:22.41
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA)	2:18.95	Tokyo, Japan	30 July 2021
Competition record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:19.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2013

The heats were started on 22 June at 09:36.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:24.37	Q
2	3	4	Lilly King	United States	2:24.46	Q
3	3	3	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:24.79	Q
4	1	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:25.54	Q
4	2	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:25.54	Q
6	1	3	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:25.56	Q
7	2	3	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.70	Q
8	3	2	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:25.74	Q
9	3	5	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:25.95	Q
10	1	5	Yu Jingyao	China	2:26.07	Q
11	1	1	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:26.85	Q
12	2	5	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	2:27.28	Q
13	1	6	Abbey Harkin	Australia	2:27.44	Q
14	3	7	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:27.84	Q
15	3	8	Moon Su-a	South Korea	2:27.91	Q
16	2	1	Eszter Békési	Hungary	2:27.95	Q
17	3	6	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:28.08
18	1	7	Melissa Rodríguez	Mexico	2:28.19
19	3	1	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	2:28.51
20	2	7	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:28.58
21	2	2	Tang Qianting	China	2:29.35
22	2	8	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia	2:29.45
23	1	2	Anna Elendt	Germany	2:30.08
24	3	0	Sim En Yi Letitia	Singapore	2:31.31
25	1	0	Kamila Isaieva	Ukraine	2:32.53
26	2	9	Emily Santos	Panama	2:38.72
27	3	9	Micaela Sierra	Uruguay	2:39.05
	1	8	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	Disqualified
	2	0	Phiangkhwan Pawapotako	Thailand	Did not start

The Semifinals were started on 22 June at 19:22.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:22.22	Q
2	1	4	Lilly King	United States	2:22.58	Q
3	2	5	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:23.66	Q
4	1	5	Kate Douglass	United States	2:23.79	Q
5	2	4	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:23.82	Q
6	2	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.06	Q
7	2	2	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:24.46	Q
8	2	6	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.09	Q
9	1	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:25.12
10	1	7	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	2:25.56
11	1	2	Yu Jingyao	China	2:26.10
12	2	7	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:26.25
13	2	1	Abbey Harkin	Australia	2:26.28
14	2	8	Moon Su-a	South Korea	2:26.64
15	1	1	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:27.87
16	1	8	Eszter Békési	Hungary	2:28.17

The final was held on 23 June at 18:52.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Lilly King	United States	2:22.41
	4	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:23.04
	6	Kate Douglass	United States	2:23.20
4	2	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:23.86
5	3	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:23.90
6	7	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.92
7	8	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.08
8	1	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:26.19