# Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 21 and 22 July 2019.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 2:06.12 | Kazan, Russia | 3 August 2015 |
| Competition record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 2:06.12 | Kazan, Russia | 3 August 2015 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 21 July at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:07.02 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:09.45 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 2:09.69 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 2:10.34 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Rika Omoto | Japan | 2:10.50 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Kelsey Wog | Canada | 2:10.54 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | Great Britain | 2:10.99 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | Ella Eastin | United States | 2:11.06 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | Yui Ohashi | Japan | 2:11.09 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 4 | Kim Seo-yeong | South Korea | 2:11.45 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel | 2:11.92 | Q, NR |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Ilaria Cusinato | Italy | 2:12.16 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Fantine Lesaffre | France | 2:12.34 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Maria Ugolkova | Switzerland | 2:12.35 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 1 | Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş | Turkey | 2:12.42 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | Yu Yiting | China | 2:12.98 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 1 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:13.29 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Aimee Willmott | Great Britain | 2:13.90 | |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | Victoria Kaminskaya | Portugal | 2:13.97 | |
| 20 | 2 | 7 | Viktoriya Belyakova | Russia | 2:14.65 | |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Mireia Belmonte | Spain | 2:17.93 | |
| 22 | 4 | 8 | Rebecca Meder | South Africa | 2:15.96 | |
| 23 | 4 | 9 | Jenna Laukkanen | Finland | 2:16.28 | |
| 24 | 2 | 8 | Neža Klančar | Slovenia | 2:16.53 | |
| 25 | 3 | 0 | McKenna DeBever | Peru | 2:16.97 | |
| 26 | 4 | 0 | Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên | Vietnam | 2:17.79 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | Barbora Závadová | Czech Republic | 2:18.34 | |
| 28 | 3 | 9 | Claudia Gadea | Romania | 2:19.03 | |
| 29 | 2 | 9 | Aleksandra Knop | Poland | 2:20.18 | |
| 30 | 1 | 4 | Alexandra Schegoleva | Cyprus | 2:20.66 | |
| 31 | 1 | 3 | Julimar Avila | Honduras | 2:20.93 | |
| 32 | 1 | 5 | Mya Azzopardi | Malta | 2:25.24 | |
| 33 | 1 | 6 | Nicole Frank | Uruguay | 2:26.49 | |
| 34 | 2 | 0 | Kristen Romano | Puerto Rico | 2:26.55 | |
| 35 | 1 | 2 | Claudia Verdino | Monaco | 2:30.68 | |
| 36 | 1 | 7 | Kaya Forson | Ghana | 2:34.59 | NR |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 21 July at 21:02.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 2:08.83 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:09.58 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Kim Seo-yeong | South Korea | 2:10.21 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Maria Ugolkova | Switzerland | 2:10.72 | NR |
| 5 | 6 | Ella Eastin | United States | 2:10.72 | |
| 6 | 8 | Yu Yiting | China | 2:11.60 | |
| 7 | 7 | Ilaria Cusinato | Italy | 2:12.12 | |
| 8 | 3 | Kelsey Wog | Canada | 2:12.96 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:07.17 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 2:09.14 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Rika Omoto | Japan | 2:09.68 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Yui Ohashi | Japan | 2:10.04 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | Great Britain | 2:10.49 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Fantine Lesaffre | France | 2:12.18 | |
| 7 | 8 | Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş | Turkey | 2:12.40 | |
| 8 | 7 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel | 2:13.90 | |

### Final

The final was held on 22 July at 21:25.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:07.53 |
| | 6 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:08.60 |
| | 5 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 2:08.70 |
| 4 | 3 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 2:08.91 |
| 5 | 2 | Rika Omoto | Japan | 2:09.32 |
| 6 | 1 | Kim Seo-yeong | South Korea | 2:10.12 |
| 7 | 8 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | Great Britain | 2:10.43 |
| | 7 | Yui Ohashi | Japan | DSQ |