| Event: | Women's 200 Butterfly |
| Competition: | 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships |
| Dates: | 27 July (prelims and semifinals) 28 July (final) |
| Competitors: | 39 |
| Nations: | 28 |
| Win Value: | 2:05.61 |
| Gold: | Otylia Jędrzejczak |
| Goldnoc: | POL |
| Silver: | Jessicah Schipper |
| Silvernoc: | AUS |
| Bronze: | Yuko Nakanishi |
| Bronzenoc: | JPN |
| Prev: | 2003 |
| Next: | 2007 |
See main article: article and Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.
The Women's 200 Butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 27 - 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary[1] and Semifinal[2] heats were on 27 July; the Final[3] was held 28 July.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:05.61 | WR | ||
| 2 | 2:05.65 | OC | ||
| 3 | 2:09.40 | |||
| 4 | 2:10.03 | |||
| 5 | 2:10.35 | |||
| 6 | 2:10.44 | |||
| 7 | 2:10.61 | |||
| 8 | 2:10.89 | |||
| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S2 L4 | 2:08.30 | q | ||
| 2 | S1 L4 | 2:08.38 | q | ||
| 3 | S2 L5 | 2:08.63 | q | ||
| 4 | S1 L2 | 2:08.90 | q | ||
| 5 | S1 L6 | 2:09.40 | q | ||
| 6 | S1 L5 | 2:09.73 | q | ||
| 7 | S2 L3 | 2:10.08 | q | ||
| 8 | S2 L2 | 2:10.28 | q | ||
| 9 | S1 L3 | 2:10.63 | |||
| 10 | S1 L7 | 2:11.06 | |||
| 11 | S2 L8 | 2:11.13 | |||
| 12 | S2 L6 | 2:11.82 | |||
| 13 | S1 L1 | 2:12.30 | |||
| 14 | S2 L7 | 2:12.59 | |||
| 15 | S1 L8 | 2:13.60 | |||
| 16 | S2 L1 | 2:13.70 | |||
| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | H5 L4 | 2:09.21 | q | ||
| 2 | H3 L4 | 2:09.40 | q | ||
| 3 | H5 L6 | 2:10.19 | q | ||
| 4 | H3 L5 | 2:10.59 | q | ||
| 5 | H5 L3 | 2:10.89 | q | ||
| 6 | H3 L6 | 2:10.98 | q | ||
| 7 | H3 L3 | 2:11.14 | q | ||
| 8 | H5 L5 | 2:11.17 | q | ||
| 9 | H4 L3 | 2:11.23 | q | ||
| 10 | H4 L4 | 2:11.24 | q | ||
| 11 | H5 L2 | 2:11.34 | q | ||
| 12 | H4 L7 | 2:11.75 | q | ||
| 13 | H5 L7 | 2:11.85 | q | ||
| 14 | H4 L5 | 2:12.62 | q | ||
| 15 | H4 L6 | 2:12.64 | q | ||
| 16 | H4 L8 | 2:12.79 | q | ||
| 17 | H3 L7 | 2:13.24 | |||
| 18 | H3 L2 | 2:13.51 | |||
| 19 | H4 L1 | 2:14.15 | |||
| 20 | H3 L1 | 2:14.25 | |||
| 21 | H3 L8 | 2:15.19 | |||
| 22 | H5 L8 | 2:15.76 | |||
| 23 | H2 L3 | 2:17.10 | |||
| 24 | H2 L5 | 2:17.39 | |||
| 25 | H4 L2 | 2:17.69 | |||
| 26 | H2 L4 | 2:17.77 | |||
| 27 | H5 L1 | 2:19.04 | |||
| 28 | H2 L2 | 2:21.50 | |||
| 29 | H2 L8 | 2:21.55 | |||
| 30 | H2 L1 | 2:21.87 | |||
| 31 | H2 L6 | 2:22.35 | |||
| 32 | H1 L5 | 2:23.95 | |||
| 33 | H2 L7 | 2:24.06 | |||
| 34 | H1 L6 | 2:27.06 | |||
| 35 | H1 L3 | 2:28.13 | |||
| 36 | H1 L7 | 2:29.27 | |||
| 37 | H1 L2 | 2:42.24 | |||
| 38 | H1 L1 | 2:45.79 | |||
| -- | -- | DNS | |||