2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 December 2016.[1]

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	8 December (heats and final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:00.79
Medalists
Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Daryna Zevina    Ukraine   Emily Seebohm    Australia

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.23	Doha	5 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:08.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:02.87	Q
2	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:03.39	Q
3	3	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:03.74	Q
4	3	8	Hellen Moffitt	United States	2:03.83	Q
5	5	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:03.91	Q
6	4	5	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:04.63	Q
7	5	6	Miki Takahashi	Japan	2:04.76	Q
8	4	6	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	2:05.12	Q
9	4	1	Kennedy Goss	Canada	2:05.41
10	3	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:05.73
11	4	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:05.74
12	5	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:06.25
13	3	7	Chen Jie	China	2:06.38
14	5	7	Clara Smiddy	United States	2:06.60
15	5	2	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	2:07.06
16	3	2	Liu Yaxin	China	2:07.19
17	3	5	Eygló Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:07.36
18	3	0	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	2:07.67
19	5	1	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:07.70	NR
20	5	0	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:07.79	NR
21	3	6	Sarah Bro	Denmark	2:09.11
22	5	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:09.21
23	4	2	Mariella Venter	South Africa	2:09.55
24	4	7	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:09.67
25	5	9	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:09.77
26	3	1	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	2:11.55
27	4	0	Wong Toto Kwan To	Hong Kong	2:11.93
28	4	8	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:13.11
29	3	9	Kimiko Raheem	Sri Lanka	2:14.91	NR
30	2	5	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	2:16.59	NR
31	4	9	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	2:17.71	NR
32	2	3	Celina Marquez	El Salvador	2:18.89	NR
33	1	3	Rosalee Mira Santa Ana	Philippines	2:21.33
34	2	2	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:22.76
35	2	6	Maria Arrua	Paraguay	2:23.71	NR
36	2	7	Britheny Joassaint	Haiti	2:26.10
37	2	4	Maana Patel	India	2:26.11	NR
38	2	0	Rahaf Baqleh	Jordan	2:30.44
39	2	8	Tiareth Cijntje	Curaçao	2:31.46	NR
40	2	1	Gabby Gittens	Antigua and Barbuda	2:33.89	NR
41	2	9	Osisang Chilton	Palau	2:39.50	NR
42	1	5	Ruthie Long	Marshall Islands	2:42.62	NR
	1	4	Kaya Forson	Ghana		DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:53.[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:00.79
	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:02.24
	2	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:02.65
4	3	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	2:03.98
5	8	Kathleen Dawson	United Kingdom	2:04.09
6	6	Hellen Moffitt	United States	2:04.56
7	7	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:05.02
8	1	Miki Takahashi	Japan	2:06.29

References

1. "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
2. "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
3. Final results