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

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.

## 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 held at 10:14.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 2 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:06.92 | Q, WJR |
| 2 | 4 | 3 | Katie McLaughlin | United States | 2:07.32 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.46 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Cammile Adams | United States | 2:07.96 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 2:07.97 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:08.07 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:08.31 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 7 | Lara Grangeon | France | 2:08.54 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 4 | Madeline Groves | Australia | 2:08.65 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:08.76 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 6 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 2:08.79 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 3 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 2:09.16 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 7 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 2:09.44 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 6 | Park Jin-young | South Korea | 2:09.62 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 8 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:09.70 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:09.77 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 2 | Martina van Berkel | Switzerland | 2:09.88 | |
| 18 | 2 | 5 | Judit Ignacio Sorribes | Spain | 2:09.93 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Aimee Willmott | Great Britain | 2:10.07 | |
| 20 | 2 | 1 | Park Soo-jin | South Korea | 2:11.07 | |
| 21 | 4 | 1 | Andreina Pinto | Venezuela | 2:11.14 | |
| 22 | 2 | 2 | Alessia Polieri | Italy | 2:11.30 | |
| 23 | 1 | 5 | Valerie Gruest | Guatemala | 2:12.82 | |
| 24 | 4 | 8 | Ana Monteiro | Portugal | 2:12.87 | |
| 25 | 3 | 0 | Barbora Závadová | Czech Republic | 2:12.89 | |
| 26 | 3 | 9 | Anna Ntountounaki | Greece | 2:13.69 | |
| 27 | 2 | 0 | Virginia Bardach | Argentina | 2:13.76 | |
| 28 | 2 | 9 | Ida Marko-Varga | Sweden | 2:14.89 | |
| 29 | 1 | 4 | Quah Ting Wen | Singapore | 2:14.93 | |
| 30 | 4 | 9 | Claudia Hufnagl | Austria | 2:15.16 | |
| 31 | 1 | 2 | Monalisa Lorenza | Indonesia | 2:15.76 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Jessica Camposano | Colombia | 2:16.40 | |
| 33 | 1 | 1 | Estefania Urzúa | Chile | 2:19.12 | |
| 34 | 1 | 6 | Sutasinee Pankaew | Thailand | 2:19.54 | |
| 35 | 4 | 0 | Sharo Rodríguez | Mexico | 2:19.60 | |
| 36 | 1 | 7 | María Far Núñez | Panama | 2:19.65 | |
| 37 | 2 | 8 | Laura Arroyo | Mexico | 2:20.04 | |
| 38 | 1 | 8 | Noel Borshi | Albania | 2:20.28 | |
| 39 | 1 | 0 | Alsu Bayramova | Azerbaijan | 2:26.27 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:25.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Katie McLaughlin | United States | 2:07.52 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Cammile Adams | United States | 2:07.57 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 2:07.57 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:07.69 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Lara Grangeon | France | 2:08.67 | |
| 6 | 3 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:08.91 | |
| 7 | 1 | Park Jin-young | South Korea | 2:09.21 | |
| 8 | 8 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:09.69 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 2:06.36 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:06.64 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.05 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:07.08 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Madeline Groves | Australia | 2:08.00 | |
| 6 | 8 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:08.52 | |
| 7 | 7 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 2:08.86 | |
| 8 | 1 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 2:09.21 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18.20.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 2:05.56 | |
| | 7 | Cammile Adams | United States | 2:06.40 | |
| | 6 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:06.51 | WJR |
| 4 | 1 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 2:06.78 | |
| 4 | 5 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:06.78 | |
| 6 | 2 | Katie McLaughlin | United States | 2:06.95 | |
| 7 | 3 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.76 | |
| 8 | 8 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:10.20 | |