Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Date:	August 1, 2013 (heats &<br/>semifinals) August 2, 2013 (final)
Competitors:	37
Nations:	31
Win Value:	2:19.41
Gold:	Yuliya Yefimova
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Rikke Møller Pedersen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Micah Lawrence
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2011
Next:	2015

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

The heats were held at 10:37.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	2:21.74	Q
2	4	4	2:22.20	Q
3	2	4	2:23.13	Q
4	4	5	2:23.91	Q
5	2	6	2:24.21	Q
6	3	6	2:24.65	Q, NR
7	3	2	2:25.73	Q
8	3	5	2:25.91	Q
9	3	7	2:26.62	Q
10	4	3	2:26.90	Q
11	3	4	2:27.31	Q
12	3	3	2:27.41	Q
13	2	7	2:27.47	Q
14	2	3	2:27.78	Q
15	3	8	2:28.04	Q, NR
16	4	7	2:28.12	Q
17	4	8	2:28.15
18	4	1	2:28.35	NR
19	4	6	2:28.41
20	2	8	2:30.49	NR
21	4	2	2:31.34
22	2	1	2:31.49
23	1	5	2:31.99
24	1	4	2:32.55
25	2	9	2:32.82
26	4	9	2:32.88
27	3	9	2:33.07
28	1	6	2:33.48	NR
29	2	0	2:33.84
30	2	2	2:34.06
31	1	3	2:34.41
32	4	0	2:34.66
33	1	2	2:37.47	NR
34	1	7	2:39.65
35	1	8	2:47.99
36	1	0	2:55.65	NR
	3	0
	1	1
	3	1

The semifinals were held at 18:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:19.11	Q,
2	5	2:23.28	Q
3	7	2:24.14	Q
4	3	2:24.19	Q, NR
5	6	2:24.68	Q
6	2	2:26.22
7	1	2:27.67
8	8	2:29.30

The final was held at 18:55.^[5]