2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	13 December
Competitors	33 from 30 nations
Winning time	2:00.71
Medalists
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The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.23	Doha	5 December 2014

The heats were started on 13 December at 10:44.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	7	Lisa Bratton	United States	2:01.00	Q
2	4	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:02.68	Q
3	3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:03.44	Q
4	2	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:03.85	Q
5	4	3	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:03.87	Q
6	3	3	Emi Moronuki	Japan	2:03.93	Q
7	2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:03.96	Q
7	3	5	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:03.96	Q
9	4	5	Minna Atherton	Australia	2:03.98
10	3	6	Peng Xuwei	China	2:04.14
11	2	3	Liu Yaxin	China	2:05.25
12	2	6	África Zamorano	Spain	2:06.03
13	2	7	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:06.44
14	4	2	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	2:08.02
15	2	2	Emma Godwin	New Zealand	2:08.31
16	2	8	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:09.18
17	3	1	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:09.40
18	3	8	Aela Janvier	Canada	2:09.97
19	4	8	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:10.42
20	4	0	Krystal Lara	Dominican Republic	2:10.92	NR
21	3	7	Wong Toto Kwan To	Hong Kong	2:11.72
22	3	0	Karolína Hájková	Slovakia	2:12.35
23	4	1	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:12.40
24	2	1	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.87
25	3	9	Hiba Fahsi	Morocco	2:15.95	NR
26	2	0	Trinidad Ardiles	Chile	2:17.44	NR
27	1	6	Camille Koenig	Mauritius	2:17.76	NR
28	4	9	Elizaveta Rogozhnikova	Kyrgyzstan	2:18.82	NR
29	2	9	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:19.79
30	1	4	Danielle Treasure	Barbados	2:23.99
31	1	5	Eleonora Singsombath	Laos	2:37.27
32	1	3	Roylin Akiwo	Palau	2:43.44
33	1	2	Hamna Ahmed	Maldives	3:07.55
	3	2	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	DNS
	4	6	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	DNS

The final was held on 13 December at 19:24.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Lisa Bratton	United States	2:00.71
	3	Kathleen Baker	United States	2:00.79
	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	2:01.37
4	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:01.99
5	6	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:02.50
6	8	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:02.96
7	2	Sayaka Akase	Japan	2:03.92
8	7	Emi Moronuki	Japan	2:05.80

↑ "Competition schedule". Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
↑ Heats results
↑ Final results