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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Championship:	2019 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	24 July (heats and semifinals) 25 July (final)
Venue:	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location:	Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors:	33
Nations:	28
Win Value:	2:06.78
Gold:	Boglárka Kapás
Gold Nation:	HUN
Silver:	Hali Flickinger
Silver Nation:	USA
Bronze:	Katie Drabot
Bronze Nation:	USA
Prev:	2017
Next:	2022

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2019.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The heats were held on 24 July at 11:12.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	2:05.96	Q
2	3	5	2:07.60	Q
3	3	6	2:08.16	Q
4	2	3	2:08.26	Q
5	2	4	2:08.33	Q
6	2	5	2:08.69	Q
6	4	4	2:08.69	Q
8	2	6	2:09.03	Q
9	4	2	2:09.43	Q
10	3	3	2:09.88	Q
11	4	6	2:09.91	Q,
12	3	7	2:10.03	Q
12	4	3	2:10.03	Q
14	4	0	2:10.39	Q, NR
15	3	2	2:10.54	Q
16	4	5	2:10.63	Q
17	2	7	2:10.73	Q
18	4	1	2:11.09
19	4	8	2:11.38	NR
20	3	1	2:11.92
21	2	8	2:12.48
22	2	1	2:13.11
23	3	9	2:13.70
24	2	0	2:13.78
25	4	9	2:13.83
26	2	2	2:14.20
27	2	9	2:15.28
28	3	8	2:15.63
29	3	0	2:20.07
30	1	4	2:22.15
31	1	5	2:28.58
32	1	6	2:34.95
33	1	3	2:39.20	NR
	4	7

The semifinals were held on 24 July at 21:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:07.33	Q
2	3	2:08.14	Q
3	5	2:08.30	Q
4	6	2:09.06	Q
5	7	2:09.22
6	2	2:09.60
7	8	2:09.97
8	1	2:10.52

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:06.25	Q
2	3	2:06.59	Q
3	5	2:07.83	Q
4	6	2:08.26	Q
5	7	2:09.18
6	2	2:09.72
7	1	2:10.78
8	8	2:12.72

The final was held on 25 July at 20:02.^[5]