Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Aspire Dome
Location	Doha, Qatar
Dates	16 February (heats and semifinals) 17 February (final)
Competitors	32 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:05.77
Medalists
Claire Curzan    United States   Jaclyn Barclay    Australia   Anastasiya Shkurdai
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[3]

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 held on 16 February at 09:52. ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:10.50	Q
2	2	4	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:10.82	Q
3	2	2	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:10.86	Q
4	4	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:10.95	Q
5	4	3	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Neutral Independent Athletes	2:11.34	Q
6	3	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:11.35	Q
7	3	5	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:11.51	Q
8	2	5	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:11.65	Q
9	3	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:11.78	Q
10	4	7	Sun Mingxia	China	2:11.79	Q
11	3	4	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:12.08	Q
12	4	6	África Zamorano	Spain	2:12.55	Q
13	2	3	Lilla Bognar	United States	2:12.56	Q
14	2	6	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	2:12.67	Q
15	4	2	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:13.11	Q
16	3	7	Hannah Pearse	South Africa	2:13.26	Q
17	2	7	Maria Godden	Ireland	2:13.30
18	3	3	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:13.33
19	3	1	Xeniya Ignatova	Kazakhstan	2:14.22
20	4	1	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:14.46
21	4	8	Chua Xiandi	Philippines	2:15.01
22	2	1	Kim Seung-won	South Korea	2:17.16
23	2	8	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:17.31
24	2	0	Celina Márquez	El Salvador	2:18.69
25	3	8	Alexia Sotomayor	Peru	2:20.05
26	4	0	Natalia Zaiteva	Moldova	2:20.07
27	3	0	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	2:20.33
28	4	9	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:21.54
29	1	4	Ariana Dirkzwager	Laos	2:24.69
30	1	5	Jessica Humphrey	Namibia	2:26.07
31	3	9	Ganga Senavirathne	Sri Lanka	2:29.23
32	1	3	Aynura Primova	Turkmenistan	2:33.02

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:20. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:07.01	Q
2	1	4	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:08.85	Q
3	1	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.42	Q
4	2	3	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Neutral Independent Athletes	2:09.76	Q
5	2	5	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:09.95	Q, NR
6	2	6	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:10.00	Q
7	1	3	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.31	Q
8	2	7	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:10.67	Q
9	2	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:10.94
10	2	1	Lilla Bognar	United States	2:11.26
11	1	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:11.44
12	1	6	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:11.57
13	1	1	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	2:11.88
14	1	2	Sun Mingxia	China	2:12.07
15	1	8	Hannah Pearse	South Africa	2:13.29
16	2	8	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:13.85

Final

The final was held on 17 February at 19:16. ^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:05.77
	5	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:07.03
	6	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Neutral Independent Athletes	2:09.08
4	3	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.76
5	7	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:09.92
6	2	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:10.11
7	1	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:11.01
8	8	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:11.22

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
3. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
4. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
5. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
6. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 17 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.