Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre freestyle
Championship:	2017 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	25 July (heats and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Venue:	Danube Arena
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Competitors:	52
Nations:	43
Win Value:	1:54.73
Gold:	Federica Pellegrini
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Katie Ledecky
Silver Nation:	USA
Silver2:	Emma McKeon
Silver2 Nation:	AUS
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2017.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The heats were held on 25 July at 09:49.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	4		1:56.07	Q
2	6	4		1:56.27	Q
3	5	6		1:56.43	Q
4	4	4		1:56.61	Q
5	4	6		1:56.62	Q, NR
6	4	3		1:57.04	Q
7	4	5		1:57.06	Q
8	6	3		1:57.06	Q
9	6	5		1:57.15	Q
10	5	5		1:57.34	Q
11	6	2		1:57.67	Q
12	6	6		1:57.79	Q
13	5	3		1:58.04	Q
14	5	2		1:58.16	Q
15	4	7		1:58.38	Q
16	6	1		1:58.66	Q
17	5	1		1:58.79
18	4	8		1:59.13
19	4	0		1:59.75
20	4	1		1:59.92
21	4	2		1:59.24
22	5	8		1:59.38
23	6	8		1:59.44
24	5	7		2:00.10
25	6	7		2:00.24
26	3	5		2:01.48	NR
27	6	0		2:02.23
28	5	9		2:02.92
29	6	9		2:02.99
30	3	7		2:03.16
31	3	0		2:03.26
32	3	3		2:03.58
33	3	4		2:04.13
34	4	9		2:04.22
35	3	8		2:05.25
36	3	6		2:05.55
37	3	2		2:06.94
38	2	6		2:08.13
39	3	9		2:08.42
40	2	4		2:08.91
41	1	6		2:08.45
42	2	2	Dara Al-Bakry	2:10.62
43	1	4		2:11.01
44	2	5		2:11.61
45	2	3		2:11.77
46	2	1		2:13.38
47	2	8		2:15.80
48	1	5		2:22.86
49	2	0		2:24.67
50	2	7		2:25.83
51	2	9		2:29.20
52	1	3		2:36.47
	3	1
	5	0

The semifinal were held on 25 July at 18:44.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:54.69	Q
2	5	1:54.99	Q
3	6	1:55.08	Q, NR
4	2	1:56.28	Q
5	3	1:56.34	Q
6	7	1:57.11
7	1	1:58.46
8	8	1:58.80

The final was held on 26 July at 17:32.^[5]