Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Aspire Dome
Location	Doha, Qatar
Dates	16 February (heats and semifinals); 17 February (final)
Competitors	32 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:05.77
Medalists
	Anastasiya Shkurdai
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[3]

World record	Kaylee McKeown (AUS)	2:03.14	Sydney, Australia	10 March 2023
Competition record	Regan Smith (USA)	2:03.35	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019

The Heats were held on 16 February at 09:52.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:10.50	Q
2	2	4	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:10.82	Q
3	2	2	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:10.86	Q
4	4	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:10.95	Q
5	4	3	Anastasiya Shkurdai		2:11.34	Q
6	3	6	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:11.35	Q
7	3	5	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:11.51	Q
8	2	5	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:11.65	Q
9	3	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Kazakhstan	2:11.78	Q
10	4	7	Sun Mingxia	China	2:11.79	Q
11	3	4	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:12.08	Q
12	4	6	África Zamorano	Spain	2:12.55	Q
13	2	3	Lilla Bognar	United States	2:12.56	Q
14	2	6	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	2:12.67	Q
15	4	2	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:13.11	Q
16	3	7	Hannah Pearse	South Africa	2:13.26	Q
17	2	7	Maria Godden	Ireland	2:13.30
18	3	3	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:13.33
19	3	1	Xeniya Ignatova	Kazakhstan	2:14.22
20	4	1	Kristen Romano	Puerto Rico	2:14.46
21	4	8	Chua Xiandi	Philippines	2:15.01
22	2	1	Kim Seung-won	South Korea	2:17.16
23	2	8	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:17.31
24	2	0	Celina Márquez	El Salvador	2:18.69
25	3	8	Alexia Sotomayor	Peru	2:20.05
26	4	0	Natalia Zaiteva	Moldova	2:20.07
27	3	0	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	2:20.33
28	4	9	Andrea Becali	Cuba	2:21.54
29	1	4	Ariana Dirkzwager	Laos	2:24.69
30	1	5	Jessica Humphrey	Namibia	2:26.07
31	3	9	Ganga Senavirathne	Sri Lanka	2:29.23
32	1	3	Aynura Primova	Turkmenistan	2:33.02

The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:20.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:07.01	Q
2	1	4	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:08.85	Q
3	1	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.42	Q
4	2	3	Anastasiya Shkurdai		2:09.76	Q
5	2	5	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:09.95	Q, NR
6	2	6	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:10.00	Q
7	1	3	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:10.31	Q
8	2	7	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:10.67	Q
9	2	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Kazakhstan	2:10.94
10	2	1	Lilla Bognar	United States	2:11.26
11	1	7	África Zamorano	Spain	2:11.44
12	1	6	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:11.57
13	1	1	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	2:11.88
14	1	2	Sun Mingxia	China	2:12.07
15	1	8	Hannah Pearse	South Africa	2:13.29
16	2	8	Cindy Cheung	Hong Kong	2:13.85

The final was held on 17 February at 19:16.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Claire Curzan	United States	2:05.77
	5	Jaclyn Barclay	Australia	2:07.03
	6	Anastasiya Shkurdai		2:09.08
4	3	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.76
5	7	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:09.92
6	2	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:10.11
7	1	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:11.01
8	8	Freya Colbert	Great Britain	2:11.22