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

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 June (heats and semifinals) 24 June (final)
Competitors	25 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:05.08
Medalists
Kaylee McKeown    Australia   Phoebe Bacon    United States   Rhyan White    United States
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 and 24 June 2022. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

World record	Regan Smith  (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019
Competition record	Regan Smith (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 23 June at 09:19. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:07.89	Q
2	2	3	Peng Xuwei	China	2:08.53	Q
3	2	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.64	Q
4	1	4	Rhyan White	United States	2:09.12	Q
5	3	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.26	Q
6	3	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.37	Q
7	3	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.88	Q
8	3	7	Emma Terebo	France	2:11.17	Q
9	1	5	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:11.47	Q
10	2	6	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:11.48	Q
11	2	2	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:11.62	Q
12	1	7	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:12.69	Q
13	1	6	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:13.30	Q
14	3	2	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.45	Q
15	2	7	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:14.02	Q
16	2	1	Jimena Leguizamón	Colombia	2:16.38	Q
17	1	1	Alexia Sotomayor	Peru	2:16.65
18	3	8	Xenia Ignatova	Kazakhstan	2:17.04
19	1	8	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	2:20.93
20	3	0	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:21.34
21	3	9	Samantha van Vuure	Curaçao	2:29.87
22	2	0	Ridima Veerendrakumar	India	2:35.78
23	2	9	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	2:53.55	NR
	2	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	Disqualified
	3	1	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico
	1	0	Yarinda Sunthornrangsri	Thailand	Did not start
	1	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel
	1	3	Liu Yaxin	China
	3	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 23 June at 18:21. ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.93	Q
2	2	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:06.41	Q
3	1	5	Rhyan White	United States	2:07.04	Q
4	2	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.28	Q
5	1	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:09.19	Q
6	1	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.23	Q
7	2	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:09.94	Q
8	2	2	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:10.07	Q
9	2	7	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:10.42	NR
10	2	1	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:10.48
11	1	2	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:10.87
12	1	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:11.77
13	1	7	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:13.15
14	1	1	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:14.10
15	2	8	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:14.14
16	1	8	Jimena Leguizamón	Colombia	2:15.11

Final

The final was held on 24 June at 18:53. ^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:05.08
	4	Phoebe Bacon	United States	2:05.12
	3	Rhyan White	United States	2:06.96
4	6	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:07.27
5	7	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.00
6	2	Peng Xuwei	China	2:09.13
7	1	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.08
8	8	Katalin Burian	Hungary	2:10.37

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). fina.org. 15 June 2022.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 June 2022.
3. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 June 2022.
4. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 June 2022.
5. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 June 2022.