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

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.^[1]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors	39 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:05.56
Medalists
Natsumi Hoshi    Japan   Cammile Adams    United States   Zhang Yufei    China
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Records

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

World record	Liu Zige (CHN)	2:01.81	Jinan, China	21 October 2009
Competition record	Jessicah Schipper (AUS)	2:03.41	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:14.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	2	Zhang Yufei	China	2:06.92	Q, WJR
2	4	3	Katie McLaughlin	United States	2:07.32	Q
3	2	4	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.46	Q
4	4	5	Cammile Adams	United States	2:07.96	Q
5	3	5	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:07.97	Q
6	3	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.07	Q
7	4	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.31	Q
8	3	7	Lara Grangeon	France	2:08.54	Q
9	3	4	Madeline Groves	Australia	2:08.65	Q
10	2	6	Zhou Yilin	China	2:08.76	Q
11	4	6	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:08.79	Q
12	2	3	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:09.16	Q
13	4	7	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:09.44	Q
14	3	6	Park Jin-young	South Korea	2:09.62	Q
15	3	8	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2:09.70	Q
16	2	7	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:09.77	Q
17	3	2	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:09.88
18	2	5	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:09.93
19	3	1	Aimee Willmott	Great Britain	2:10.07
20	2	1	Park Soo-jin	South Korea	2:11.07
21	4	1	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:11.14
22	2	2	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:11.30
23	1	5	Valerie Gruest	Guatemala	2:12.82
24	4	8	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	2:12.87
25	3	0	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:12.89
26	3	9	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:13.69
27	2	0	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	2:13.76
28	2	9	Ida Marko-Varga	Sweden	2:14.89
29	1	4	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:14.93
30	4	9	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	2:15.16
31	1	2	Monalisa Lorenza	Indonesia	2:15.76
32	1	3	Jessica Camposano	Colombia	2:16.40
33	1	1	Estefania Urzúa	Chile	2:19.12
34	1	6	Sutasinee Pankaew	Thailand	2:19.54
35	4	0	Sharo Rodríguez	Mexico	2:19.60
36	1	7	María Far Núñez	Panama	2:19.65
37	2	8	Laura Arroyo	Mexico	2:20.04
38	1	8	Noel Borshi	Albania	2:20.28
39	1	0	Alsu Bayramova	Azerbaijan	2:26.27

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:25.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katie McLaughlin	United States	2:07.52	Q
2	5	Cammile Adams	United States	2:07.57	Q
2	7	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:07.57	Q
4	2	Zhou Yilin	China	2:07.69	Q
5	6	Lara Grangeon	France	2:08.67
6	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.91
7	1	Park Jin-young	South Korea	2:09.21
8	8	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:09.69

Semifinal 2

 

Hoshi wins 2nd semi

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:06.36	Q
2	6	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:06.64	Q
3	5	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.05	Q
4	4	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.08	Q
5	2	Madeline Groves	Australia	2:08.00
6	8	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2:08.52
7	7	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:08.86
8	1	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:09.21

Final

 

Hoshi swims for gold

The final was held at 18.20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Natsumi Hoshi	Japan	2:05.56
	7	Cammile Adams	United States	2:06.40
	6	Zhang Yufei	China	2:06.51	WJR
4	1	Brianna Throssell	Australia	2:06.78
4	5	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:06.78
6	2	Katie McLaughlin	United States	2:06.95
7	3	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:07.76
8	8	Zhou Yilin	China	2:10.20

References

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