Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	26 July 2019 (heats and semifinals) 27 July 2019 (final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:03.69
Medalists
Regan Smith    United States   Kaylee McKeown    Australia   Kylie Masse    Canada
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2019. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

World record	Missy Franklin  (USA)	2:04.06	London, United Kingdom	3 August 2012
Competition record	Missy Franklin  (USA)	2:04.76	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Semifinal	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	WR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 26 July at 10:23. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Regan Smith	United States	2:06.01	Q, WJ
2	4	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.34	Q
3	5	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.51	Q
4	5	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.17	Q
5	4	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.18	Q
6	5	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:09.32	Q
7	5	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.70	Q
8	5	1	Ali Galyer	New Zealand	2:09.98	Q
9	3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:10.08	Q
10	4	1	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:10.29	Q
11	4	2	Anastasia Avdeeva	Russia	2:10.34	Q
12	4	6	Natsumi Sakai	Japan	2:10.40	Q
13	5	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.50	Q
14	4	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:10.67	Q
15	3	6	Liu Yaxin	China	2:10.72	Q
16	3	7	Jessica Fullalove	Great Britain	2:11.08	Q
17	3	1	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:11.16
17	4	0	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:11.16
19	3	8	Simona Kubová	Czech Republic	2:11.29
20	3	2	Im Da-sol	South Korea	2:11.33
21	4	8	Zuzanna Herasimowicz	Poland	2:11.57
22	4	7	Peng Xuwei	China	2:12.41
23	3	3	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:12.64
24	5	9	Ingeborg Løyning	Norway	2:13.25	NR
25	2	5	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:13.26	NR
26	5	8	Nathania van Niekerk	South Africa	2:13.37
27	2	6	Kristina Steina	Latvia	2:14.00	NR
28	5	0	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:14.15
29	4	9	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:14.46
30	2	2	Felicity Passon	Seychelles	2:14.60
31	5	2	Rio Shirai	Japan	2:14.98
32	3	0	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:15.24
33	3	9	Ana Herceg	Croatia	2:16.29
34	2	3	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:17.30
35	2	4	Toto Wong	Hong Kong	2:17.57
36	2	7	Elizaveta Rogozhnikova	Kyrgyzstan	2:20.55
37	1	4	Mia Krstevska	North Macedonia	2:23.13
38	2	8	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:25.13
39	2	0	Eda Zeqiri	Kosovo	2:27.11
40	1	5	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	2:27.35
41	2	1	Camille Koenig	Mauritius	2:28.32
42	1	3	Idealy Tendrinavalona	Madagascar	2:29.80

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 20:20. ^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:07.38	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.48	Q
3	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:08.19	Q
4	1	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:08.42	Q
5	7	Natsumi Sakai	Japan	2:10.11
6	6	Ali Galyer	New Zealand	2:10.19
7	2	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:10.82
8	8	Jessica Fullalove	Great Britain	2:11.12

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	Q, WR , WJ
2	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:06.57	Q
3	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.62	Q
4	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.40	Q
5	2	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:09.68
6	7	Anastasia Avdeeva	Russia	2:09.78
7	1	África Zamorano	Spain	2:10.54
8	8	Liu Yaxin	China	2:12.93

Final

The final was started on 27 July at 20:58. ^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.69
	7	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:06.26
	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:06.62
4	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.67
5	1	Taylor Ruck	Canada	2:07.50
6	6	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:08.26
7	8	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:08.65
8	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.08

References

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