2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	31 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:15.77 CR
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2022.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Rebecca Soni (USA)	2:14.57	Manchester, United Kingdom	18 December 2009
Competition record	Rikke Moller Pedersen (DEN)	2:16.08	Istanbul, Turkey	16 December 2012

The following new records were set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
16 December	Final	Kate Douglass	United States	2:15.77	CR

The heats were started at 11:19.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	7	Kate Douglass	United States	2:16.52	Q
2	5	4	Lilly King	United States	2:18.59	Q
3	5	5	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:18.70	Q, NR
4	3	5	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:19.57	Q
4	4	5	Tang Qianting	China	2:19.57	Q
6	4	3	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:19.75	Q
7	3	3	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:19.88	Q
8	3	4	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:20.26	Q
9	4	8	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	2:20.45	NR
10	5	6	Kelsey Wog	Canada	2:20.57
11	5	1	Mikayla Smith	Australia	2:20.67
12	5	7	Yumeno Kusuda	Japan	2:20.82
13	5	3	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:21.22
14	2	7	Letitia Sim	Singapore	2:21.60	NR
15	3	2	Charlotte Bonnet	France	2:21.94
16	2	3	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	2:22.10
17	4	1	Emelie Fast	Sweden	2:22.22
18	2	2	Moon Su-a	South Korea	2:23.41
19	3	8	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	2:23.64
20	5	2	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:24.12
21	3	1	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia	2:24.62
22	3	6	Yang Chang	China	2:24.80
23	2	6	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:25.53
24	1	5	Nicole Frank	Uruguay	2:26.44	NR
25	2	1	Chang Yujuan	Hong Kong	2:26.76
26	2	8	Phiangkhwan Pawapotako	Thailand	2:28.50
27	2	5	Laura Lahtinen	Finland	2:28.80
28	1	4	Nàdia Tudó	Andorra	2:31.45
29	1	6	Asia Kent	Gibraltar	2:36.22
30	1	3	Krista Jurado	Guatemala	2:36.34
	5	8	Emily Visagie	South Africa	Disqualified
	1	2	Ramudi Samarakoon	Sri Lanka	Did not start
	2	4	Lena Kreundl	Austria
	3	7	Kotomi Kato	Japan
	4	2	Anna Elendt	Germany
	4	4	Sophie Hansson	Sweden
	4	6	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania

The final was held at 19:42.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kate Douglass	United States	2:15.77	CR
	5	Lilly King	United States	2:17.13
	3	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:18.19
4	7	Jenna Strauch	Australia	2:18.87
5	2	Tang Qianting	China	2:19.28
6	6	Sydney Pickrem	Canada	2:19.35
7	1	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:20.14
8	8	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:21.48