Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	28 July (heats and semifinals) 29 July (final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:03.85
Medalists
Kaylee McKeown    Australia   Regan Smith    United States   Peng Xuwei    China
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2023. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[4]

World record	Kaylee McKeown  (AUS)	2:03.14	Sydney, Australia	10 March 2023
Competition record	Regan Smith (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 28 July at 10:52. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.24	Q
2	5	5	Peng Xuwei	China	2:08.68	Q
3	5	2	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:09.08	Q, NR
4	4	3	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:09.18	Q
5	5	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:09.30	Q
6	4	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:09.31	Q
7	3	4	Rhyan White	United States	2:09.68	Q
8	4	2	Africa Zamorano	Spain	2:09.99	Q
9	3	3	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:10.38	Q
10	4	7	Jenna Forrester	Australia	2:10.46	Q
11	3	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:10.90	Q
12	3	8	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:11.22	Q
13	3	2	Rio Shirai	Japan	2:11.24	Q
14	5	8	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:11.78	Q
15	3	1	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:11.80	Q
16	5	6	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:11.94	Q
17	4	1	Hanane Hironaka	Japan	2:12.57
18	4	8	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:12.65
19	5	7	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	2:12.67
20	5	1	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:12.79
21	5	3	Liu Yaxin	China	2:13.42
22	3	6	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:13.74
23	4	0	Chua Xiandi	Suspended Member Federation	2:13.80
24	4	6	Emma Terebo	France	2:13.95
25	2	4	Ingeborg Løyning	Norway	2:13.97
26	5	0	Athena Meneses	Mexico	2:15.14
27	4	9	Xeniya Ignatova	Kazakhstan	2:16.06
28	3	9	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:17.20
29	2	6	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	2:18.50	NR
30	2	2	Anishta Teeluck	Mauritius	2:18.63	NR
31	2	1	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:18.65
32	3	0	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:19.47
33	2	8	Elizabeth Jimenez	Dominican Republic	2:19.84
34	5	9	Alexia Sotomayor	Peru	2:20.78
35	2	7	Danielle Titus	Barbados	2:21.36
36	2	3	Elisabeth Erlendsdóttir	Faroe Islands	2:22.28
37	2	0	Ganga Senavirathne	Sri Lanka	2:23.36
38	1	3	Vivian Xhemollari	Albania	2:24.30
39	2	9	Samantha van Vuure	Curaçao	2:31.60
40	1	4	Aynura Primova	Turkmenistan	2:32.68
41	1	5	Jennifer Harding-Marlin	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2:37.83
	2	5	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	DNS
	3	7	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 28 July at 20:20. ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:07.40	Q
2	2	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.52	Q
3	2	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:07.89	Q
4	1	5	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:08.32	Q
5	1	3	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:08.51	Q
6	2	5	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:08.96	Q, NR
7	2	6	Rhyan White	United States	2:09.13	Q
8	1	2	Jenna Forrester	Australia	2:09.74	Q
9	2	2	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.90
10	2	7	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:10.65
11	1	6	Africa Zamorano	Spain	2:10.76
12	1	8	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:11.47
13	1	7	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:11.99
14	2	1	Rio Shirai	Japan	2:12.45
15	2	8	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:12.47
16	1	1	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	2:13.65

Final

The final was started on 29 July at 20:57. ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.85
	5	Regan Smith	United States	2:04.94
	4	Peng Xuwei	China	2:06.74
4	6	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:07.45
5	2	Kylie Masse	Canada	2:07.52
6	1	Rhyan White	United States	2:08.43
7	7	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:10.68
8	8	Jenna Forrester	Australia	2:11.44

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
2. Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
3. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
4. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
5. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023.
6. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023.
7. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 December 2023.