Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	4 August (heats and semifinals) 5 August (final)
Competitors	63 from 52 nations
Winning time	1:55.16
Medalists
Katie Ledecky    United States   Federica Pellegrini    Italy   Missy Franklin    United States
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The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals and 5 August with the final.^[1]

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

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

The heats were held at 09:49.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:55.82	Q
2	5	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.32	Q
3	6	3	Missy Franklin	United States	1:56.42	Q
4	5	3	Shen Duo	China	1:56.75	Q
5	7	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:57.18	Q
6	6	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:57.34	Q
7	7	5	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:57.78	Q
8	7	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:57.99	Q
9	7	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:58.10	Q
10	6	6	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:58.11	Q
11	6	5	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:58.27	Q
11	6	7	Guo Junjun	China	1:58.27	Q
13	5	2	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	1:58.31	Q
13	5	7	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:58.31	Q
15	5	1	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:58.41	Q
16	5	8	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	1:58.68	Q
17	7	2	Melanie Wright	Australia	1:58.94
18	5	6	Melania Costa	Spain	1:59.00
19	5	0	Louise Hansson	Sweden	1:59.34
20	7	8	Sachi Mochida	Japan	1:59.35
21	6	8	Emily Overholt	Canada	1:59.61
22	6	2	Alice Mizzau	Italy	1:59.68
23	7	7	Coralie Balmy	France	1:59.70
24	6	1	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	1:59.97
25	3	8	Anna Kolářová	Czech Republic	2:00.24
26	7	0	Katerine Savard	Canada	2:00.30
27	7	1	Larissa Oliveira	Brazil	2:00.35
28	4	4	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.67
29	4	5	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	2:00.69
30	6	0	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.72
31	5	9	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	2:00.80
32	6	9	Camille Cheng	Hong Kong	2:00.96
33	4	3	Theodora Giareni	Greece	2:01.00
34	4	0	Danielle Villars	Switzerland	2:01.03
35	3	3	Anastasia Bogdanovski	North Macedonia	2:01.28	NR
36	4	2	Jessica Camposano	Colombia	2:01.81
36	4	1	Jasmine Al-Khaldi	Philippines	2:01.81
38	4	9	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:02.13
39	3	2	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	2:02.32
40	4	8	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	2:02.54
41	3	6	Gizem Bozkurt	Turkey	2:02.63
42	4	6	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:02.83
43	3	7	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	2:03.08
44	4	7	Katarina Simonović	Serbia	2:03.21
45	3	1	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	2:03.23
46	3	5	Elisbet Gámez	Cuba	2:03.56
47	3	4	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	2:03.89
48	3	0	Andrea Cedrón	Peru	2:04.07
49	2	3	Sara Pastrana	Honduras	2:06.15
50	2	4	Rebeca Quinteros	El Salvador	2:06.75
51	2	1	Arianna Sanna	Dominican Republic	2:07.24	NR
52	2	5	Lani Cabrera	Barbados	2:07.75
53	2	7	Elena Giovannini	San Marino	2:07.84
54	3	9	Chrysoula Karamanou	Cyprus	2:09.01
55	2	2	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	2:09.07
56	2	6	Lydia Musleh	Jordan	2:09.74
57	2	0	Nadia Tudo	Andorra	2:12.21
58	2	9	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	2:14.58
59	2	8	Ani Poghosyan	Armenia	2:16.22
60	1	4	Sofia Shah	Nepal	2:18.93
61	1	3	Kaya Forson	Ghana	2:23.72
62	1	6	Aminath Shajan	Maldives	2:28.75
63	1	5	Nada Arkaji	Qatar	2:30.40
	7	9	Johanna Friedrich	Germany		DNS

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 18:44.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.23	Q
2	5	Shen Duo	China	1:56.44	Q
3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.51	Q
4	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:57.01
5	1	Chihiro Igarashi	Japan	1:57.75
6	7	Guo Junjun	China	1:57.79
7	2	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:58.12
8	8	Manuella Lyrio	Brazil	1:59.28

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Missy Franklin	United States	1:56.37	Q
2	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:56.56	Q
3	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:56.76	Q
4	2	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.91	Q
5	6	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:56.95	Q
6	7	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:57.30
7	1	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	1:58.14
8	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:59.54

The final was held at 18:01.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Katie Ledecky	United States	1:55.16
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.32
	5	Missy Franklin	United States	1:55.49
4	2	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:56.16
5	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.19	NR
6	3	Shen Duo	China	1:56.27
7	8	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:56.41
8	1	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.79