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

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	18 June (heats and semifinals); 19 June (final)
Competitors	38 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:07.13
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 June 2022.^[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 started on 18 June at 09:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Alexandra Walsh	United States	2:09.41	Q
2	2	3	Leah Hayes	United States	2:09.81	Q
3	3	3	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.23	Q
4	4	2	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	2:10.38	Q
5	2	7	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	2:10.60	Q
6	4	5	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:10.89	Q
7	3	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:11.17	Q
8	4	3	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:11.28	Q
9	3	6	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:11.29	Q
10	3	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:11.60	Q
11	2	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.77	Q
12	2	4	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:12.22	Q
13	4	6	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:12.27	Q
14	4	8	Ge Chutong	China	2:12.98	Q
15	3	2	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:13.13	Q
16	2	2	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:13.20	Q
17	3	1	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:13.26
18	2	6	Cyrielle Duhamel	France	2:13.39
19	2	0	Stephanie Balduccini	Brazil	2:14.61
20	3	7	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:15.04
21	3	8	Lena Kreundl	Austria	2:15.31
22	4	7	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	2:15.95
23	4	0	Letitia Sim	Singapore	2:16.30
24	2	8	Chloe Cheng	Hong Kong	2:16.32
25	1	5	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:16.94	NR
26	3	9	Nikoleta Trniková	Slovakia	2:17.36
27	3	0	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:17.71
28	2	9	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:17.78
29	2	1	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:18.89
30	4	1	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	2:19.40
31	1	4	Melissa Rodríguez	Mexico	2:19.55
32	4	9	Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus	Thailand	2:20.38
33	1	3	Alondra Ortiz	Costa Rica	2:23.22
34	1	8	Simone Kabbara	Lebanon	2:25.39
35	1	6	Elizabeth Jiménez	Dominican Republic	2:26.64
36	1	2	Zaylie Thompson	Bahamas	2:30.15
37	1	1	Hayley Wong	Brunei	2:37.55
38	1	7	Zaira Forson	Ghana	2:41.45

The semifinals were started on 18 June at 19:04.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Alexandra Walsh	United States	2:08.74	Q
2	1	4	Leah Hayes	United States	2:09.82	Q
3	2	6	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:10.17	Q
4	1	5	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	2:10.22	Q
5	2	2	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:10.47	Q
6	2	5	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.54	Q
7	1	6	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:10.65	Q
8	2	7	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.72	Q
9	2	1	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:11.06
10	2	3	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	2:11.20
11	1	2	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:11.28
12	1	3	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:11.31
13	1	7	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:12.05
14	2	8	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:13.09
15	1	8	Ella Ramsay	Australia	2:13.10
16	1	1	Ge Chutong	China	2:14.06

The final was held on 19 June at 19:27.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Alexandra Walsh	United States	2:07.13
	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.57
	5	Leah Hayes	United States	2:08.91
4	1	Rika Omoto	Japan	2:10.01
5	7	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.02
6	2	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:11.30
7	8	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.37
8	6	Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada	2:12.77