| Event: | Women's 200m Butterfly |
| Competition: | 2012 Short Course Worlds |
| Dates: | 12 December (heats and final) |
| Win Value: | 2:02.20 |
| Gold: | Katinka Hosszú |
| Goldnoc: | HUN |
| Silver: | Jiao Liuyang |
| Silvernoc: | CHN |
| Bronze: | Jemma Lowe |
| Bronzenoc: | GBR |
| Prev: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2014 |
See main article: article and 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).
The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 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 | Liu Zige | align=left | 2:00.78 | 15 November 2009 | |||
| Championship record | align=left | 2:03.59 | 15 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
34 swimmers participated in 4 heats.[1]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 2:04.19 | Q, NR | ||
| 2 | 1 | 6 | 2:04.88 | Q | ||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 2:05.42 | Q | ||
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 2:05.45 | Q | ||
| 5 | 4 | 5 | 2:05.54 | Q | ||
| 6 | 4 | 6 | 2:05.96 | Q | ||
| 7 | 3 | 4 | 2:06.14 | Q | ||
| 8 | 2 | 7 | 2:06.91 | Q | ||
| 9 | 2 | 6 | 2:07.28 | |||
| 10 | 3 | 6 | 2:08.02 | |||
| 11 | 4 | 2 | 2:08.33 | |||
| 12 | 3 | 5 | 2:09.08 | |||
| 13 | 3 | 2 | 2:09.08 | |||
| 14 | 4 | 3 | 2:09.56 | |||
| 15 | 3 | 7 | 2:09.59 | |||
| 16 | 3 | 3 | 2:09.97 | |||
| 17 | 2 | 5 | 2:10.00 | |||
| 18 | 2 | 8 | 2:10.04 | |||
| 19 | 4 | 7 | 2:10.96 | |||
| 20 | 3 | 8 | 2:11.95 | |||
| 21 | 3 | 1 | 2:12.60 | |||
| 22 | 3 | 0 | 2:13.07 | |||
| 23 | 4 | 1 | 2:13.42 | |||
| 24 | 2 | 0 | 2:15.28 | |||
| 25 | 4 | 0 | 2:16.38 | |||
| 26 | 1 | 4 | 2:16.84 | |||
| 27 | 4 | 8 | 2:17.22 | |||
| 28 | 4 | 9 | 2:20.73 | |||
| 29 | 2 | 9 | 2:21.24 | |||
| 30 | 1 | 3 | 2:22.33 | NR | ||
| 31 | 3 | 9 | 2:23.51 | |||
| 32 | 1 | 7 | 2:24.72 | |||
| 33 | 1 | 5 | 2:31.81 | |||
| 2 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 3 |
The final was held at 19:32.[2]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |  | 2:02.20 | CR, ER | |||
| 5 |  | 2:02.28 | ||||
| 1 |  | 2:03.19 | ||||
| 4 | 7 | | 2:03.99 | |||
| 5 | 6 |  | 2:05.90 | |||
| 6 | 2 |  | 2:06.56 | |||
| 7 | 3 |  | 2:06.57 | |||
| 8 | 8 | | 2:08.95 |