Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals and 5 August with the final.[1]

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	4 August (heats and semifinals) 5 August (final)
Competitors	63 from 52 nations
Winning time	1:55.16
Medalists
Katie Ledecky    United States   Federica Pellegrini    Italy   Missy Franklin    United States

Records

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

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:49.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:55.82	Q
2	5	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.32	Q
3	6	3	Missy Franklin	United States	1:56.42	Q
4	5	3	Shen Duo	China	1:56.75	Q
5	7	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:57.18	Q
6	6	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:57.34	Q
7	7	5	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:57.78	Q
8	7	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:57.99	Q
9	7	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:58.10	Q
10	6	6	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:58.11	Q
11	6	5	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:58.27	Q
11	6	7	Guo Junjun	China	1:58.27	Q
13	5	2	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	1:58.31	Q
13	5	7	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:58.31	Q
15	5	1	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:58.41	Q
16	5	8	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	1:58.68	Q
17	7	2	Melanie Wright	Australia	1:58.94
18	5	6	Melania Costa	Spain	1:59.00
19	5	0	Louise Hansson	Sweden	1:59.34
20	7	8	Sachi Mochida	Japan	1:59.35
21	6	8	Emily Overholt	Canada	1:59.61
22	6	2	Alice Mizzau	Italy	1:59.68
23	7	7	Coralie Balmy	France	1:59.70
24	6	1	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	1:59.97
25	3	8	Anna Kolářová	Czech Republic	2:00.24
26	7	0	Katerine Savard	Canada	2:00.30
27	7	1	Larissa Oliveira	Brazil	2:00.35
28	4	4	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.67
29	4	5	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	2:00.69
30	6	0	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.72
31	5	9	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	2:00.80
32	6	9	Camille Cheng	Hong Kong	2:00.96
33	4	3	Theodora Giareni	Greece	2:01.00
34	4	0	Danielle Villars	Switzerland	2:01.03
35	3	3	Anastasia Bogdanovski	North Macedonia	2:01.28
36	4	2	Jessica Camposano	Colombia	2:01.81
36	4	1	Jasmine Al-Khaldi	Philippines	2:01.81
38	4	9	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:02.13
39	3	2	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	2:02.32
40	4	8	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	2:02.54
41	3	6	Gizem Bozkurt	Turkey	2:02.63
42	4	6	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:02.83
43	3	7	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	2:03.08
44	4	7	Katarina Simonović	Serbia	2:03.21
45	3	1	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	2:03.23
46	3	5	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:03.56
47	3	4	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	2:03.89
48	3	0	Andrea Cedrón	Peru	2:04.07
49	2	3	Sara Pastrana	Honduras	2:06.15
50	2	4	Rebeca Quinteros	El Salvador	2:06.75
51	2	1	Arianna Sanna	Dominican Republic	2:07.24	NR
52	2	5	Lani Cabrera	Barbados	2:07.75
53	2	7	Elena Giovannini	San Marino	2:07.84
54	3	9	Chrysoula Karamanou	Cyprus	2:09.01
55	2	2	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	2:09.07
56	2	6	Lydia Musleh	Jordan	2:09.74
57	2	0	Nadia Tudo	Andorra	2:12.21
58	2	9	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	2:14.58
59	2	8	Ani Poghosyan	Armenia	2:16.22
60	1	4	Sofia Shah	Nepal	2:18.93
61	1	3	Kaya Forson	Ghana	2:23.72
62	1	6	Aminath Shajan	Maldives	2:28.75
63	1	5	Nada Arkaji	Qatar	2:30.40
	7	9	Johanna Friedrich	Germany		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 18:44.[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.23	Q
2	5	Shen Duo	China	1:56.44	Q
3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.51	Q
4	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:57.01
5	1	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:57.75
6	7	Guo Junjun	China	1:57.79
7	2	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:58.12
8	8	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	1:59.28

Semifinal 2

Popova and Heemskerk successfully qualified to final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Missy Franklin	United States	1:56.37	Q
2	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:56.56	Q
3	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:56.76	Q
4	2	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.91	Q
5	6	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:56.95	Q
6	7	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:57.30
7	1	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	1:58.14
8	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:59.54

Final

The final was held at 18:01.[4]

Federica Pellegrini wins silver

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:55.16
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.32
	5	Missy Franklin	United States	1:55.49
4	2	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:56.16
5	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.19	NR
6	3	Shen Duo	China	1:56.27
7	8	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:56.41
8	1	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.79

References

1. Start list
2. Heats results
3. Semifinals results
4. Final results