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

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.

## Records

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 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:11.
| 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 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 17:51.

#### Semifinal 1

| 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 |

#### Semifinal 2

| 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 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 19:43.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Shi Jinglin | China | 2:23.75 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir | Iceland | 2:25.11 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:25.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 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 |