Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

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The heats for the women's 200 m breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July and the final took place in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record		2:20.22		align=right	15 August 2008
Championship record		2:21.72		align=right	29 July 2005

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Time	Record
30 July	Heat 6	2:21.68	CR
30 July	Semifinal 1	2:20.93	CR
30 July	Semifinal 2	2:20.12	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	2:21.68	6	4	CR
2	2:22.09	7	4
3	2:22.10	7	5	ER
4	2:23.19	4	7
5	2:23.22	7	3
6	2:23.50	5	4
6	2:23.50	5	5
8	2:23.60	7	6
9	2:24.20	5	3
10	2:24.46	5	9	NR
11	2:25.00	6	7
12	2:25.15	7	2	NR
13	2:25.57	7	1
14	2:26.07	7	7
15	2:26.18	6	3
16	2:26.45	6	2
17	2:26.69	5	2
18	2:26.74	7	8
19	2:26.82	3	4
20	2:27.08	5	6
21	2:27.32	5	7
22	2:27.55	6	5
23	2:27.64	4	4
24	2:27.89	7	0
25	2:28.13	2	3	NR
26	2:28.37	4	9
27	2:28.62	6	0
28	2:29.05	5	8
29	2:29.40	3	6
30	2:29.80	4	1
31	2:30.17	3	1	NR
32	2:30.27	6	8
33	2:30.59	4	3
34	2:31.08	6	9
35	2:31.12	4	2
36	2:31.20	6	1
37	2:31.39	3	2	NR
38	2:31.52	3	8
39	2:32.01	4	0
40	2:32.09	7	9
41	2:32.93	3	5
42	2:33.10	4	5
43	2:33.95	4	8
44	2:34.11	4	6
45	2:34.34	6	1
46	2:37.43	3	7
47	2:37.65	3	0
48	2:37.77	2	1	NR
49	2:39.71	2	2	NR
50	2:43.44	2	5
51	2:43.72	2	0
52	2:44.09	2	6
53	2:44.33	3	9
54	2:45.00	2	7
55	2:45.30	2	4
56	2:45.57	2	9	NR
57	2:51.88	2	8
58	2:54.35	1	5
59	3:00.51	1	3
60	3:02.16	1	6
61	3:16.33	1	7
62	3:31.32	1	1
–	DNS	1	2
–	DNS	3	3
–	DNS	5	1
–	DSQ	1	4
–	DSQ	5	0

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	2:20.12	2	4	WR
2	2:20.93	1	4
3	2:22.13	2	5
4	2:22.24	1	7	NR
5	2:22.28	1	5
6	2:22.75	2	6
7	2:22.83	2	3
8	2:22.92	1	3
9	2:23.20	1	6
10	2:23.32	2	2	NR
11	2:23.34	1	2	NR
12	2:25.00	2	7
13	2:25.36	2	1
14	2:26.39	2	8
15	2:27.03	1	1
16	2:28.75	1	8

Final

Rank	Time	Lane	Notes
	2:21.62	2	ER
	2:21.84	4
	2:21.97	3	NR
4	2:22.15	5
5	2:23.03	8
6	2:23.12	1
7	2:23.36	7
8	2:23.62	6