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

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	38
Nations:	30
Win Value:	2:18.51
Gold:	Molly Renshaw
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Kelsey Wog
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Chloe Tutton
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rebecca Soni		2:14.57	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen		2:16.08	Istanbul	16 December 2012

The heats were held at 09:58.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1	2:18.89	Q
5	5	2	2:19.87	Q
3	5	3	2:20.26	Q
4	4	6	2:20.39	Q
5	5	4	2:20.80	Q
6	4	3	2:20.82	Q
7	4	4	2:20.96	Q
8	5	5	2:21.17	Q
9	3	5	2:21.18
10	4	5	2:22.09
11	3	7	2:22.38	NR
12	3	4	2:22.79
13	5	6	2:23.34
14	3	6	2:24.19
15	5	9	2:24.43
16	3	2	2:24.60
16	4	1	2:24.60
18	5	8	2:24.78
19	5	7	2:25.92
20	4	8	2:26.21
21	4	0	2:26.69
22	3	1	2:27.34
23	5	0	2:28.38
24	2	5	2:29.07
25	2	6	2:29.16	NR
26	2	4	2:29.22
27	3	0	2:30.66
28	4	9	2:31.88	NR
29	2	3	2:33.16	NR
30	3	9	2:36.31
31	2	7	2:38.12
32	2	2	2:38.85
33	1	4	2:40.79	NR
34	2	1	2:42.00
35	2	0	2:44.04
36	2	8	2:44.74	NR
37	1	3	3:07.74
	3	8
	1	5
	3	3
	4	2
	4	7

The final was held at 19:10.^[3]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01021F00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-17 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113029/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01021F02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .