2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	20 December (heats and final)
Competitors	31 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:04.29
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 20 December 2021.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:01.86	Doha, Qatar	6 December 2014
Competition record	Katinka Hosszú (HUN)	2:01.86	Doha, Qatar	6 December 2014

The heats were started at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Kate Douglass	United States	2:04.24	Q
2	2	2	Yu Yiting	China	2:06.48	Q
3	4	4	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:06.66	Q
4	4	5	Bailey Andison	Canada	2:07.18	Q
5	4	3	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:07.70	Q
6	3	4	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:08.16	Q
7	3	5	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:08.30	Q
8	4	7	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:08.60	Q
9	4	8	Ellen Walshe	Ireland	2:08.69	NR
10	3	0	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	2:08.74
11	3	3	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:09.02
12	2	5	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:09.15
13	3	2	Irina Shvaeva	Russian Swimming Federation	2:09.35
14	4	9	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:09.72	NR
15	4	1	Lena Kreundl	Austria	2:09.76
16	4	6	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:10.16
17	3	7	Anastasiia Sorokina	Russian Swimming Federation	2:11.35
18	4	2	Catalina Corró	Spain	2:11.60
19	2	7	Nathalia Almeida	Brazil	2:11.74
20	1	6	Anja Crevar	Serbia	2:12.04
21	4	0	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	2:12.59	NR
22	3	1	Chloe Cheng	Hong Kong	2:12.70
23	2	9	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:13.56
24	3	9	Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus	Thailand	2:13.91
25	1	4	Alexandra Dobrin	Romania	2:14.34
25	1	7	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:14.34	NR
27	1	1	Alondra Ortíz	Costa Rica	2:15.00
28	2	8	Florencia Perotti	Argentina	2:16.84
29	1	5	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:17.07
30	3	8	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:17.08
31	1	2	Laura Melo	Colombia	2:18.68	NR
	1	3	McKenna DeBever	Peru	DNS
	1	8	Georgia Damasioti	Greece
	2	0	Quah Jing Wen	Singapore
	2	1	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia
	2	3	Costanza Cocconcelli	Italy
	2	4	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel
	3	6	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey

The final was held at 18:07.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:04.29
	5	Yu Yiting	China	2:04.48	NR, WJ
	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:04.68
4	7	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:06.02
5	6	Bailey Andison	Canada	2:06.13
6	2	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:06.92
7	1	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	2:07.26
8	8	Kim Seo-yeong	South Korea	2:09.94