| Event: | Women's 200m Breaststroke |
| Competition: | 2012 Short Course Worlds |
| Dates: | 16 December (heats and final) |
| Win Value: | 2:16.08 |
| Gold: | Rikke Møller Pedersen |
| Goldnoc: | DEN |
| Silver: | Laura Sogar |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Kanako Watanabe |
| Bronzenoc: | JPN |
| Prev: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2014 |
See main article: article and 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).
The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Rebecca Soni | align=left | 2:14.57 | 18 December 2009 | |||
| Championship record | Rebecca Soni | align=left | 2:16.39 | 19 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 7 | 2:17.85 | Q | ||
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 2:18.65 | Q | ||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 2:20.96 | Q | ||
| 4 | 5 | 1 | 2:21.23 | Q | ||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 2:21.69 | Q | ||
| 6 | 5 | 6 | 2:21.84 | Q | ||
| 7 | 5 | 3 | 2:21.91 | Q | ||
| 8 | 3 | 6 | 2:21.99 | Q | ||
| 9 | 3 | 5 | 2:22.79 | |||
| 10 | 4 | 4 | 2:23.01 | |||
| 11 | 5 | 5 | 2:23.22 | |||
| 12 | 3 | 4 | 2:23.79 | |||
| 13 | 4 | 6 | 2:23.81 | |||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | 2:24.26 | |||
| 15 | 5 | 2 | 2:24.35 | |||
| 16 | 4 | 7 | 2:24.46 | |||
| 17 | 4 | 3 | 2:24.58 | |||
| 18 | 1 | 7 | 2:24.59 | |||
| 19 | 4 | 8 | 2:24.66 | |||
| 20 | 4 | 1 | 2:25.81 | |||
| 21 | 4 | 5 | 2:25.92 | |||
| 22 | 1 | 2 | 2:26.03 | |||
| 23 | 4 | 2 | 2:27.19 | |||
| 24 | 3 | 8 | 2:28.08 | |||
| 25 | 3 | 2 | 2:28.36 | |||
| 26 | 5 | 7 | 2:28.71 | |||
| 27 | 5 | 0 | 2:28.74 | |||
| 28 | 1 | 5 | 2:28.77 | |||
| 29 | 5 | 8 | 2:28.92 | |||
| 30 | 4 | 0 | 2:29.40 | |||
| 31 | 3 | 0 | 2:35.11 | |||
| 32 | 2 | 3 | 2:35.12 | |||
| 33 | 3 | 9 | 2:35.20 | |||
| 34 | 2 | 5 | 2:37.25 | |||
| 35 | 2 | 4 | 2:39.85 | NR | ||
| 36 | 2 | 1 | 2:43.75 | |||
| 37 | 2 | 7 | 2:48.24 | |||
| 38 | 2 | 9 | 2:50.44 | |||
| 39 | 2 | 8 | 2:50.69 | |||
| 40 | 2 | 6 | 2:51.00 | |||
| 41 | 1 | 6 | 2:53.92 | |||
| 42 | 2 | 0 | 2:54.23 | |||
| 43 | 1 | 3 | 3:03.15 | |||
| 44 | 1 | 4 | 3:05.63 | |||
| 4 | 9 | |||||
| 5 | 9 | |||||
| 1 | 8 | |||||
| 2 | 2 |
The final was held at 19:24.[2]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Rikke Møller Pedersen | 2:16.08 | CR, ER | |||
| 4 | Laura Sogar | 2:16.93 | ||||
| 8 | Kanako Watanabe | 2:19.39 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | Maria Temnikova | 2:19.76 | |||
| 5 | 6 | Andrea Kropp | 2:20.08 | |||
| 6 | 1 | Martha McCabe | 2:20.70 | |||
| 7 | 7 | Tera van Beilen | 2:21.11 | |||
| 8 | 2 | Alia Atkinson | 2:21.64 |