Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 July (heats and semifinals); 24 July (final)
Competitors	36 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:07.00
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 23 and 24 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	3 August 2015
Competition record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:06.12	Kazan, Russia	3 August 2015

The heats were held on 23 July at 10:18.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.49	Q
2	4	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:10.14	Q
3	2	5	Madisyn Cox	United States	2:10.16	Q
4	3	4	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:10.42	Q
5	2	6	Runa Imai	Japan	2:11.15	Q
6	4	7	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:11.32	Q
7	4	6	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:11.33	Q
8	4	3	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:11.44	Q
9	2	4	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:11.47	Q
10	3	3	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:11.67	Q
11	2	2	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:12.10	Q
12	3	6	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:12.24	Q
13	4	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:12.41	Q
14	3	2	Ye Shiwen	China	2:12.48	Q
15	3	1	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:12.60	Q
16	2	3	Kotuku Ngawati	Australia	2:13.03	Q
17	3	5	Viktoriya Andreeva	Russia	2:13.16
18	4	1	Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	2:13.36
19	4	0	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:13.56
20	3	7	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:13.82
21	2	1	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	2:13.91
22	2	7	Zhang Sishi	China	2:13.99
23	3	8	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:14.26
24	2	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:14.33
25	2	0	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:14.70
26	4	9	Marjolein Delno	Netherlands	2:15.05
27	3	0	Monika González	Mexico	2:16.11
28	2	9	McKenna DeBever	Peru	2:16.52	NR
29	1	4	Ressa Kania Dewi	Indonesia	2:17.93
30	3	9	Ilektra Lebl	Greece	2:19.05
31	4	8	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:19.29
32	1	5	Sara Nysted	Faroe Islands	2:26.48
33	1	6	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	2:27.34	NR
34	1	3	Toto Wong	Hong Kong	2:27.68
35	1	7	Sayani Ghosh	India	2:32.55
36	1	2	Nooran Ba Matraf	Yemen	2:37.21	NR

The semifinals were held on 23 July at 18:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:09.17	Q, NR
2	5	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:09.72	Q
3	6	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:10.45	Q
4	3	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:11.20
5	2	Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson	Canada	2:11.61
6	7	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:12.25
7	1	Ye Shiwen	China	2:13.01
8	8	Kotuku Ngawati	Australia	2:14.07

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.14	Q
2	2	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:08.70	Q
3	6	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:09.86	Q, NR
4	5	Madisyn Cox	United States	2:09.97	Q
5	3	Runa Imai	Japan	2:10.15	Q
6	8	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:11.24	SA
7	7	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:11.92
8	1	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:12.88

The final was held on 24 July at 18:54.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.00
	8	Yui Ohashi	Japan	2:07.91	NR
	7	Madisyn Cox	United States	2:09.71
4	5	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:09.82
5	1	Runa Imai	Japan	2:09.99
6	2	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:10.40
7	6	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	2:10.41
	3	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	DSQ