Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 June 2022.^[1][2]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	21 June (heats and semifinals) 22 June (final)
Competitors	25 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:05.20
Medalists
Summer McIntosh    Canada   Hali Flickinger    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 started on 21 June at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:07.26	Q
2	1	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:07.31	Q
3	3	5	Kina Hayashi	Japan	2:08.63	Q
4	2	3	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:08.98	Q
5	2	4	Regan Smith	United States	2:09.02	Q
6	3	4	Zhang Yufei	China	2:09.21	Q
7	2	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:09.24	Q
7	3	2	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:09.24	Q
9	1	2	María Mata	Mexico	2:09.32	Q, NR
10	1	5	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:10.07	Q
11	1	6	Abbey Connor	Australia	2:10.10	Q
12	3	7	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:10.20	Q
13	3	3	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:11.20	Q
14	3	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.22	Q
15	3	1	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:11.40	Q
16	2	6	Chiho Mizuguchi	Japan	2:11.65	Q
17	2	2	Quah Jing Wen	Singapore	2:11.79
18	2	7	Giovanna Diamante	Brazil	2:12.39
19	2	1	Georgia Damasioti	Greece	2:13.12
20	3	8	Karen Durango	Colombia	2:14.20
21	2	8	Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus	Thailand	2:15.89
22	1	8	Julimar Ávila	Honduras	2:17.40
23	1	1	Thị Mỹ Thảo Lê	Vietnam	2:18.65
24	3	0	Alondra Ortíz	Costa Rica	2:19.01
25	2	0	Hayley Wong	Brunei	2:35.48
	1	7	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 21 June at 19:18.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:05.79	Q, WJR, NR
2	1	4	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:05.90	Q
3	2	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:07.13	Q
4	1	7	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.58	Q, NR
5	1	3	Zhang Yufei	China	2:07.76	Q
6	1	5	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:07.77	Q
7	1	6	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:07.82	Q
8	2	6	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.89	Q
9	2	5	Kina Hayashi	Japan	2:08.32
10	1	2	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:08.47
11	2	2	María Mata	Mexico	2:09.78
12	2	7	Abbey Connor	Australia	2:09.88
13	1	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.64
14	2	1	Zhu Jiaming	China	2:11.19
15	2	8	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:11.31
16	1	8	Chiho Mizuguchi	Japan	2:12.54

Final

The final was held on 22 June at 18:02.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Summer McIntosh	Canada	2:05.20	WJR, NR
	5	Hali Flickinger	United States	2:06.08
	2	Zhang Yufei	China	2:06.32
4	3	Regan Smith	United States	2:06.79
5	7	Elizabeth Dekkers	Australia	2:07.01
6	6	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.85
7	8	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:08.12
7	1	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:08.12

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). fina.org. 15 June 2022.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 June 2022.
3. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 June 2022.
4. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 June 2022.
5. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 22 June 2022.