Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2019 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	25 July (heats and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Venue:	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location:	Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors:	34
Nations:	27
Win Value:	2:20.17
Gold:	Yuliya Yefimova
Gold Nation:	RUS
Silver:	Tatjana Schoenmaker
Silver Nation:	RSA
Bronze:	Sydney Pickrem
Bronze Nation:	CAN
Prev:	2017
Next:	2022

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:50.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	2:24.53	Q
2	3	5	2:24.66	Q
3	4	2	2:24.83	Q
4	2	7	2:24.93	Q, NR
5	4	3	2:25.01	Q
5	4	4	2:25.01	Q
7	2	2	2:25.05	Q
8	2	3	2:25.17	Q
8	4	5	2:25.17	Q
10	2	6	2:25.41	Q
11	2	4	2:25.93	Q
12	3	6	2:25.98	Q
13	3	3	2:26.04	Q
14	3	8	2:26.06	Q, NR
15	4	7	2:26.25	Q
16	4	1	2:26.56	Q
17	3	2	2:26.77
18	3	1	2:27.41
19	4	6	2:27.46
20	4	8	2:27.67
21	3	7	2:29.18
22	2	1	2:29.93
23	2	8	2:29.97
24	2	0	2:30.22
25	2	9	2:30.50	NR
26	4	0	2:30.67
27	1	4	2:31.68
28	4	9	2:35.58
29	1	5	2:37.49
30	1	3	2:44.30
31	1	6	2:46.10
32	1	2	2:52.56
33	1	7	3:04.53	NR
	3	4
	3	0
	3	9

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:21.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	2:21.20	Q
2	4	2:21.79	Q, AF
3	6	2:23.16	Q
4	2	2:23.49	Q
5	5	2:24.47	NR
6	7	2:24.55
7	1	2:25.67	NR
8	8	2:26.29

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:23.11	Q
2	6	2:23.76	Q, NR
3	3	2:24.17	Q
4	5	2:24.18	Q
5	2	2:25.41
6	8	2:26.65
7	7	2:27.95
8	1	2:28.11

The final was held on 26 July at 20:50.^[5]