2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	8 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	42
Nations:	35
Win Value:	2:00.79
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Daryna Zevina
Silvernoc:	UKR
Bronze:	Emily Seebohm
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

The heats were held at 11:08.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	2:02.87	Q
2	4	4	2:03.39	Q
3	3	3	2:03.74	Q
4	3	8	2:03.83	Q
5	5	5	2:03.91	Q
6	4	5	2:04.63	Q
7	5	6	2:04.76	Q
8	4	6	2:05.12	Q
9	4	1	2:05.41
10	3	4	2:05.73
11	4	3	2:05.74
12	5	3	2:06.25
13	3	7	2:06.38
14	5	7	2:06.60
15	5	2	2:07.06
16	3	2	2:07.19
17	3	5	2:07.36
18	3	0	2:07.67
19	5	1	2:07.70	NR
20	5	0	2:07.79	NR
21	3	6	2:09.11
22	5	8	2:09.21
23	4	2	2:09.55
24	4	7	2:09.67
25	5	9	2:09.77
26	3	1	2:11.55
27	4	0	2:11.93
28	4	8	2:13.11
29	3	9	2:14.91	NR
30	2	5	2:16.59	NR
31	4	9	2:17.71	NR
32	2	3	2:18.89	NR
33	1	3	2:21.33
34	2	2	2:22.76
35	2	6	2:23.71	NR
36	2	7	2:26.10
37	2	4	2:26.11	NR
38	2	0	2:30.44
39	2	8	2:31.46	NR
40	2	1	2:33.89	NR
41	2	9	2:39.50	NR
42	1	5	2:42.62	NR
	1	4

The final was held at 18:53.^[3]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
Web site: Heats results . 2017-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170404160308/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011C00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-04-04 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-15 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329112910/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011C02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .