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

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

World record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:19.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2013
Competition record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:19.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2013

The heats were held at 10:11.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:23.29	Q
2	4	3	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:23.32	Q
3	4	7	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:23.54	Q, NR
4	3	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:23.77	Q, NR
5	5	3	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes	Turkey	2:23.81	Q
6	5	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:23.90	Q
7	5	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:23.97	Q
8	4	6	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:23.99	Q
9	4	5	Taylor McKeown	Australia	2:24.02	Q
10	5	5	Shi Jinglin	China	2:24.09	Q
11	3	3	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:24.12	Q
12	5	6	Tessa Wallace	Australia	2:24.88	Q
13	5	7	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:25.32	Q
14	5	8	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	2:25.74	Q
15	3	4	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:25.75	Q
16	5	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:25.91	Q, NR
17	3	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:26.11
18	3	6	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:26.32
19	4	2	Breeja Larson	United States	2:26.38
20	3	7	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	2:26.40
21	3	2	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:26.51
22	5	0	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:28.41
23	4	1	Zhang Xinyu	China	2:28.57
24	3	9	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	2:28.64
25	3	8	Yang Ji-won	South Korea	2:29.24
26	4	9	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	2:29.28
26	5	9	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	2:29.28
28	2	7	Ana Radić	Croatia	2:29.71
29	3	0	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:29.77	NR
30	1	6	Daniela Carrillo	Mexico	2:30.65
31	2	8	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:31.37	NR
32	2	5	Raminta Dvariškytė	Lithuania	2:31.74
33	4	0	Jung Seul-ki	South Korea	2:31.85
34	2	0	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	2:32.69	NR
35	2	3	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:33.73
36	1	3	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	2:33.85
37	2	2	Aļona Ribakova	Latvia	2:34.69
38	2	6	Phiangkhwan Pawapotako	Thailand	2:34.77
39	1	5	Daniela Lindemeier	Namibia	2:35.17
40	2	1	Jovana Bogdanović	Serbia	2:35.88
41	4	8	Anastasiya Malyavina	Ukraine	2:36.49
42	2	4	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	2:37.04
43	1	4	Lin Pei-wun	Chinese Taipei	2:39.19
44	1	2	Mihaela Bat	Moldova	2:40.57
45	2	9	Sin Jin-hui	North Korea	2:41.41
46	1	0	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	2:55.98
47	1	1	Pilar Shimizu	Guam	2:56.47
48	1	8	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	2:58.10
49	1	7	Nooran Ba Matraf	Yemen	3:07.78
50	1	9	Sajina Aishath	Maldives	3:16.50

The semifinals were held at 17:51.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:21.99	Q
2	4	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:22.04	Q
3	6	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:22.72	Q
4	2	Shi Jinglin	China	2:23.06	QSO
5	5	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:23.83
6	7	Tessa Wallace	Australia	2:24.68
7	1	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	2:25.36
8	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:25.45	NR

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:22.15	Q
2	7	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:22.82	Q
3	8	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:22.88	Q
4	6	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:22.90	Q
5	5	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:23.06	QSO, NR
6	3	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes	Turkey	2:24.01
7	2	Taylor McKeown	Australia	2:24.41
8	1	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:25.52

The swim-off was held at 19:43.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Shi Jinglin	China	2:23.75	Q
2	5	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:25.11

The final was held at 18:25.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:21.15
	5	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:22.44
	1	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:22.76
	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:22.76
	8	Shi Jinglin	China	2:22.76
6	7	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.19
7	6	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:23.59
8	2	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:23.61