2025 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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The women's 200 m individual medley events at the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships will be held at the Singapore Aquatic Centre between 21 and 27 September 2025. ^[1]

Schedule

Women's 200 m individual medley events will be held across the following schedule:

women's 200 m ind. medley

Day	Date	Classifications
Day 1	21 Sept [2] [3]	SM7
Day 2	22 Sept [4] [5]	SM9; SM10
Day 3	23 Sept [6] [7]	SM6
Day 4	24 Sept	SM5; SM11
Day 5	25 Sept	SM14
Day 6	26 Sept	SM8
Day 7	27 Sept	SM13

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
SM5	He Shenggao   China	Monica Boggioni   Italy	Giulia Ghiretti   Italy
SM6	Zhu Ji   China	Liu Daomin   China	Grace Harvey   Great Britain
SM7	Mallory Weggemann   United States	Veronika Korzhova   Ukraine	Iona Winnifrith   Great Britain
SM8	Brock Whiston   Great Britain	Viktoriia Ishchiulova   Individual Neutral Athletes	Zhu Hui   China
SM9	Mary Jibb   Canada	Anastasiya Dmytriv Dmytriv   Spain	Zsofia Konkoly   Hungary
SM10	Defne Kurt   Turkey	Faye Rogers   Great Britain	Lisa Kruger   Netherlands
SM11	Daria Lukianenko   Individual Neutral Athletes	Zhang Xiaotong   China	Liesette Bruinsma   Netherlands
SM13	Olivia Chambers   United States	Carlotta Gilli   Italy	Róisín Ní Ríain   Ireland
SM14	Valeriia Shabalina   Individual Neutral Athletes	Olivia Newman-Baronius   Great Britain	Bethany Firth   Great Britain

Race summaries

SM5

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 5 event was held on 24 September. Nine swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Natalia Ziani  (UKR)	3:13.43	London	United Kingdom
Championship	Arianna Talamona  (ITA)	3:19.62	London	United Kingdom
African	Ayaallah Tewfick  (EGY)	03:52.6	Berlin	Germany
Americas	Esthefany Rodrigues  (BRA)	03:43.9	São Paulo	Brazil
Asian	He Shenggao  (CHN)	03:15.9	Hangzhou	China
European	Natalia Ziani  (UKR)	03:13.4	London	United Kingdom
Oceania	Jennifer Newstead  (NZL)	03:39.1	Atlanta	United States

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	4	He Shenggao  (CHN)	SM5	3:31.04	Q
2	1	5	Monica Boggioni  (ITA)	SM5	3:41.40	Q
3	1	7	Alessandra Oliveira dos Santos  (BRA)	SM5	3:49.16	Q
4	1	3	Giulia Ghiretti  (ITA)	SM5	3:50.90	Q
5	1	2	Sevilay Ozturk  (TUR)	SM5	3:56.23	Q
6	1	6	Maori Yui  (JPN)	SM5	3:59.14	Q
7	1	1	Berta García Grau  (ESP)	SM5	4:07.01	Q
8	1	0	Natalie Ornkvist  (FIN)	SM5	4:07.90	Q
	1	8	Maria Fanouria Tziveleki  (GRE)	SM5		DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	He Shenggao  (CHN)	SM5	3:19.66
	5	Monica Boggioni  (ITA)	SM5	3:35.99
	6	Giulia Ghiretti  (ITA)	SM5	3:45.33
4	3	Alessandra Oliveira dos Santos  (BRA)	SM5	3:46.74
5	2	Sevilay Ozturk  (TUR)	SM5	3:56.92
6	7	Maori Yui  (JPN)	SM5	3:57.85
7	8	Natalie Ornkvist  (FIN)	SM5	4:00.42
8	1	Berta García Grau  (ESP)	SM5	4:11.31

SM6

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 6 event will be held on 23 September. Six swimmers will take part in a direct final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Maisie Summers-Newton  (GBR)	2:55.07	Berlin	Germany
Championship	Maisie Summers-Newton  (GBR)	2:57.24	London	United Kingdom
African	Caitlin Botha  (NAM)	08:15.0	Limoges	France
Americas	Ellie Marks  (USA)	02:57.4	Tokyo	Japan
Asian	Song Lingling  (CHN)	03:03.0	London	United Kingdom
European	Maisie Summers-Newton  (GBR)	02:55.1	Berlin	Germany
Oceania	Tiffany Thomas Kane  (AUS)	03:09.8	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
	6	Zhu Ji  (CHN)	3:00.05	ASR
	4	Daomin Liu  (CHN)	3:04.54
	5	Grace Harvey  (GBR)	3:12.55
4	3	Verena Schott  (GER)	3:13.58
5	2	Dearbhaile Brady  (IRL)	3:18.13

SM7

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 7 event will be held on 21 September. Eleven swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Mallory Weggemann  (USA)	2:48.43	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Championship	Mallory Weggemann  (USA)	2:48.43	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Americas	Mallory Weggemann  (USA)	02:48.4	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Asian	Huang Min  (CHN)	03:00.7	Beijing	China
European	Iona Winnifrith  (GBR)	02:59.9	Sheffield	United Kingdom
Oceania	Jacqueline Freney  (AUS)	02:54.4	London	United Kingdom

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
1	2		Mallory Weggemann  (USA)	2:57.05	Q
2	2		Veronika Korzhova  (UKR)	2:59.10	Q
3	1		Julia Gaffney  (USA)	3:04.92	Q
4	1		Iona Winnifrith  (GBR)	3:04.98	Q
5	1		Ahalya Lettenberger  (USA)	3:11.04	Q
6	2		Danielle Dorris  (CAN)	3:11.28	Q
7	2		Naomi Somellera Mandujano  (MEX)	3:13.90	Q
8	1		Cheuk Yan Ng  (HKG)	3:16.71	Q
9	2		Naomi Ortiz Mendez  (MEX)	3:18.63	R
10	2		Siomha Nic Bradaigh  (IRL)	3:25.82
11	1		Alejandra Aybar  (DOM)	3:32.01

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
		Mallory Weggemann  (USA)	2:54.75
		Veronika Korzhova  (UKR)	2:56.50
		Iona Winnifrith  (GBR)	3:01.29
4		Julia Gaffney  (USA)	3:03.83
5		Danielle Dorris  (CAN)	3:10.39
6		Ahalya Lettenberger  (USA)	3:10.96
7		Cheuk Yan Ng  (HKG)	3:13.47
8		Naomi Somellera Mandujano  (MEX)	3:14.32

SM8

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 8 event was held on 26 September. Thirteen swimmers took part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Brock Whiston  (GBR)	2:35.30	London	United Kingdom
Championship	Brock Whiston  (GBR)	2:35.30	London	United Kingdom
African	Husnah Kukundakwe  (UGA)	03:06.2	Manchester	United Kingdom
Americas	Jessica Long  (USA)	02:36.0	Bismarck	United States
Asian	Zhu Hui  (CHN)	02:46.4	Hangzhou	China
European	Brock Whiston  (GBR)	02:35.3	London	United Kingdom
Oceania	Lakeisha Patterson  (AUS)	02:45.2	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	4	Viktoriia Ishchiulova  (AIN)	SM8	2:49.00	Q
2	1	5	Jessica Long  (USA)	SM8	2:49.22	Q
3	1	3	Zhu Hui  (CHN)	SM8	2:51.65	Q
4	1	7	Zheng Tingting  (CHN)	SM8	2:51.93	Q
5	2	4	Brock Whiston  (GBR)	SM8	2:52.72	Q
6	2	2	Paula Novina  (CRO)	SM8	2:53.65	Q
7	2	6	Nahia Zudaire Borrezo  (ESP)	SM8	2:56.90	Q
8	2	3	Xenia Francesca Palazzo  (ITA)	SM8	2:58.51
9	2	1	Husnah Kukundakwe  (UGA)	SM8	3:03.72	Q, AF
10	2	7	Mira Jeanne Maack  (GER)	SM8	3:05.26
11	1	6	Mariia Pavlova  (AIN)	SM8	3:06.11
12	1	2	Vendula Duskova  (CZE)	SM8	3:11.76

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	2	Brock Whiston  (GBR)	SM8	2:40.25
	4	Viktoriia Ishchiulova  (AIN)	SM8	2:43.81
	3	Zhu Hui  (CHN)	SM8	2:48.36
4	5	Jessica Long  (USA)	SM8	2:51.44
5	7	Paula Novina  (CRO)	SM8	2:51.67
6	6	Zheng Tingting  (CHN)	SM8	2:51.81
7	1	Nahia Zudaire Borrezo  (ESP)	SM8	2:54.34
8	8	Husnah Kukundakwe  (UGA)	SM8	3:03.51

SM9

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 9 event will be held on 21 September. Eleven swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Sophie Pascoe  (NZL)	2:25.22	Singapore	Singapore
Championship	Natalie Du Toit  (RSA)	2:29.92	Durban	South Africa
African	Natalie Du Toit  (RSA)	02:27.8	Beijing	China
Americas	Stephanie Dixon  (CAN)	02:37.5	Beijing	China
Asian	Lin Ping  (CHN)	02:35.6	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
European	Tully Kearney  (GBR)	02:31.1	Glasgow	United Kingdom
Oceania	Sophie Pascoe  (NZL)	02:25.2	Singapore	Singapore

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	6	Mary Jibb  (CAN)	SM9	2:35.51	Q, AM
2	1	4	Zsofia Konkoly  (HUN)	SM9	2:39.13	Q
3	1	2	Xu Jialing  (CHN)	SM9	2:38.90	Q
4	1	5	Nuria Marques Soto  (ESP)	SM9	2:39.31	Q
5	1	3	Anastasiya Dmytriv Dmytriv  (ESP)	SM9	2:41.98	Q
6	1	8	Liu Ying  (CHN)	SM9	2:43.47	Q
7	1	0	Ema Maeda  (JPN)	SM9	2:44.31	Q
8	1	9	Beatriz Lerida Maldonado  (ESP)	SM9	2:50.10	Q
9	1	1	Zuzanna Boruszewska  (POL)	SM9	2:54.40
	1	7	Emma Mecic  (CRO)	SM9	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Mary Jibb  (CAN)	SM9	2:32.90	AM
	2	Anastasiya Dmytriv Dmytriv  (ESP)	SM9	2:35.36
	3	Zsofia Konkoly  (HUN)	SM9	2:36.09
4	6	Zsofia Konkoly  (HUN)	SM9	2:36.31
5	5	Nuria Marques Soto  (ESP)	SM9	2:36.78
6	7	Xu Jialing  (CHN)	SM9	2:41.66
7	1	Liu Ying  (CHN)	SM9	2:45.82
8	8	Beatriz Lerida Maldonado  (ESP)		2:47.54

SM10

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 10 event will be held on 21 September. Eight swimmers will take part in a direct final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Chantalle Zijderveld  (NED)	2:24.85	Tokyo	Japan
Championship	Sophie Pascoe  (NZL)	2:26.51	Glasgow	United Kingdom
African	Joanica Kriegler  (RSA)	02:59.0	Cairo	Egypt
Americas	Aurelie Rivard  (CAN)	02:28.7	Tokyo	Japan
Asian	Zhang Meng  (CHN)	02:26.8	Paris	France
European	Chantalle Zijderveld  (NED)	02:24.9	Tokyo	Japan
Oceania	Sophie Pascoe  (NZL)	02:24.9	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	1	Defne Kurt  (TUR)	SM10	2:28.30
	2	Faye Rogers  (GBR)	SM10	2:28.52
	4	Lisa Kruger  (NED)	SM10	2:32.07
4	3	Katie Cosgriffe  (CAN)	SM10	2:32.36
5	6	Oliwia Jablonska  (POL)	SM10	2:36.12
6	2	Csenge Hotz  (HUN)	SM10	2:36.50
7	7	Poppy Wilson  (AUS)	SM10	2:38.72
8	1	Gabriella Smith  (NZL)	SM10	2:40.00

SM11

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 11 event was held on 24 September. Six swimmers will take part in a direct final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Daria Lukianenko  (IPC)	2:37.77	Paris	France
Championship	Ma Jia  (CHN)	2:40.10	Manchester	United Kingdom
African	Renette Bloem  (RSA)	03:32.6	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Americas	Anastasia Pagonis  (USA)	02:45.6	Tokyo	Japan
Asian	Ma Jia  (CHN)	02:38.7	Paris	France
European	Daria Lukianenko  (IPC)	02:37.8	Paris	France
Oceania	Mary Fisher  (NZL)	02:46.9	London	United Kingdom

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Daria Lukianenko  (AIN)	SM11	2:40.82
	6	Zhang Xiaotong  (CHN)	SM11	2:48.14
	3	Liesette Bruinsma  (NED)	SM11	2:48.15
4	5	Ma Jia  (CHN)	SM11	2:57.94
5	2	Matilde Estefania Alcazar Figueroa  (MEX)	SM11	3:06.18
6	7	Martina Rabbolini  (ITA)	SM11	3:10.36

SM13

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 13 event will be held on 24 September. ^[1] SM12 swimmer are eligible for this event.

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
SM12
World	Rebecca Meyers  (USA)	2:24.56	London	United Kingdom
Championship	Rebecca Meyers  (USA)	2:24.56	London	United Kingdom
African	Alani Ferreira  (RSA)	02:46.9	Manchester	United Kingdom
Americas	Rebecca Meyers  (USA)	02:24.6	London	United Kingdom
Asian	Zhu Hongyan  (CHN)	02:30.1	Athens	Greece
European	Daria Pikalova  (RUS)	02:24.9	Glasgow	United Kingdom
Oceania	Jenna Jones  (AUS)	02:38.6	Melbourne	Australia
SM13
World	Carlotta Gilli  (ITA)	2:21.44	Tokyo	Japan
Championship	Carlotta Gilli  (ITA)	2:24.46	London	United Kingdom
African	Alani Ferreira  (RSA)	02:45.9	Funchal	Portugal
Americas	Rebecca Meyers  (USA)	02:24.6	Glasgow	United Kingdom
Asian	Fotimakhon Amilova  (UZB)	02:21.8	Jakarta	Indonesia
European	Carlotta Gilli  (ITA)	02:21.4	Tokyo	Japan
Oceania	Prue Watt  (AUS)	02:32.9	Beijing	China

Heats

Thirteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Olivia Chambers  (USA)	SM13	2:29.05	Q
2	1	4	Carlotta Gilli  (ITA)	SM13	2:31.46	Q
3	2	5	Roisin Ni Riain  (IRL)	SM13	2:34.90	Q
4	2	3	Grace Nuhfer  (USA)	SM13	2:34.91	Q
5	1	5	Marian Polo Lopez  (ESP)	SM13	2:36.74	Q
6	1	6	Ariadna Edo Beltran  (ESP)	SM13	2:38.00	Q
7	1	3	Aleksandra Ziablitseva  (AIN)	SM13	2:40.02	Q
8	2	6	Emma Feliu Martin  (ESP)	SM13	2:42.31	Q
9	2	2	Anastasiya Zudzilava  (AIN)	SM13	2:45.54
10	2	7	Alani Ferreira  (RSA)	SM13	2:49.50
11	2	1	Jietong Zheng  (CHN)	SM12	2:50.09
12	1	7	Ela Letton-Jones  (GBR)	SM12	2:50.41
13	1	2	Danika Vyncke  (RSA)	SM13	2:51.86

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
	4	Olivia Chambers  (USA)	2:25.83
	5	Carlotta Gilli  (ITA)	2:28.69
	3	Roisin Ni Riain  (IRL)	2:29.75
4	6	Grace Nuhfer  (USA)	2:33.23
5	2	Marian Polo Lopez  (ESP)	2:34.56
6	1	Aleksandra Ziablitseva  (AIN)	2:36.18
7	7	Ariadna Edo Beltran  (ESP)	2:38.49
8	8	Emma Feliu Martin  (ESP)	2:41.67

SM14

The women's 200 metre individual medley SM 14 event was held on 25 September. Ten swimmers took part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[8]

Event	Class	Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
Women's 200 m Individual Medley	SM14	World	Valeriia Shabalina  (RUS)	2:18.37	Funchal	Portugal
Women's 200 m Individual Medley	SM14	Championship	Valeriia Shabalina  (RUS)	2:18.78	London	United Kingdom
Women's 200 m Individual Medley	SM14	Asian	Aira Kinoshita  (JPN)	02:24.3	Manchester	United Kingdom
Women's 200 m Individual Medley	SM14	European	Valeriia Shabalina  (RUS)	02:18.4	Funchal	Portugal

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	3	Olivia Newman-Baronius  (GBR)	SM14	2:26.89	Q
2	1	4	Valeriia Shabalina  (AIN)	SM14	2:30.51	Q
3	1	5	Poppy Maskill  (GBR)	SM14	2:32.09	Q
4	1	6	Bethany Firth  (GBR)	SM14	2:32.63	Q
5	1	0	Citli Siloe Salinas Rojas  (MEX)	SM14	2:35.99	Q
6	1	2	Pernilla Lindberg  (SWE)	SM14	2:36.54	Q
7	1	7	Ho Ying Cheung  (HKG)	SM14	2:37.34	Q
8	1	1	Nattharinee Khajhonmatha  (THA)	SM14	2:37.94	Q
9	1	8	Janina Falk  (AUT)	SM14	2:44.70

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	5	Valeriia Shabalina  (AIN)	SM14	2:22.50
	4	Olivia Newman-Baronius  (GBR)	SM14	2:23.49
	6	Bethany Firth  (GBR)	SM14	2:25.24
4	3	Poppy Maskill  (GBR)	SM14	2:28.40
5	2	Citli Siloe Salinas Rojas  (MEX)	SM14	2:34.48
6	1	Ho Ying Cheung  (HKG)	SM14	2:35.39
7	7	Pernilla Lindberg  (SWE)	SM14	2:35.73
8	8	Nattharinee Khajhonmatha  (THA)	SM14	2:36.18

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