# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The Women's 200 Butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 27 – 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 27 July; the Final was held 28 July.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:05.78 swum by Otylia Jędrzejczak (Poland) on 4 August 2002 in Berlin, Germany
* CR: 2:06.73 swum by Petria Thomas (Australia) on 23 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:05.61 | WR |
| 2 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:05.65 | OC |
| 3 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:09.40 | |
| 4 | Caterina Giacchetti | Italy | 2:10.03 | |
| 5 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.35 | |
| 6 | Mary DeScenza | USA | 2:10.44 | |
| 7 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:10.61 | |
| 8 | Yuri Yano | Japan | 2:10.89 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L4 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:08.30 | q |
| 2 | S1 L4 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:08.38 | q |
| 3 | S2 L5 | Yurie Yano | Japan | 2:08.63 | q |
| 4 | S1 L2 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:08.90 | q |
| 5 | S1 L6 | Caterina Giacchetti | Italy | 2:09.40 | q |
| 6 | S1 L5 | Mary DeScenza | USA | 2:09.73 | q |
| 7 | S2 L3 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.08 | q |
| 8 | S2 L2 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:10.28 | q |
| 9 | S1 L3 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:10.63 | |
| 10 | S1 L7 | Mireia García | Spain | 2:11.06 | |
| 11 | S2 L8 | Emily Mason | USA | 2:11.13 | |
| 12 | S2 L6 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:11.82 | |
| 13 | S1 L1 | Beatrix Boulsevicz | Hungary | 2:12.30 | |
| 14 | S2 L7 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 2:12.59 | |
| 15 | S1 L8 | Petra Granlund | Sweden | 2:13.60 | |
| 16 | S2 L1 | Li Jie | China | 2:13.70 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H5 L4 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:09.21 | q |
| 2 | H3 L4 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:09.40 | q |
| 3 | H5 L6 | Yurie Yano | Japan | 2:10.19 | q |
| 4 | H3 L5 | Mary DeScenza | United States | 2:10.59 | q |
| 5 | H5 L3 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.89 | q |
| 6 | H3 L6 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:10.98 | q |
| 7 | H3 L3 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:11.14 | q |
| 8 | H5 L5 | Caterina Giacchetti | Italy | 2:11.17 | q |
| 9 | H4 L3 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:11.23 | q |
| 10 | H4 L4 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:11.24 | q |
| 11 | H5 L2 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 2:11.34 | q |
| 12 | H4 L7 | Mireia García | Spain | 2:11.75 | q |
| 13 | H5 L7 | Li Jie | China | 2:11.85 | q |
| 14 | H4 L5 | Beatrix Boulsevicz | Hungary | 2:12.62 | q |
| 15 | H4 L6 | Emily Mason | United States | 2:12.64 | q |
| 16 | H4 L8 | Petra Granlund | Sweden | 2:12.79 | q |
| 17 | H3 L7 | Natalia Sutiagina | Russia | 2:13.24 | |
| 18 | H3 L2 | Aurore Mongel | France | 2:13.51 | |
| 19 | H4 L1 | You-Ri Kwon | South Korea | 2:14.15 | |
| 20 | H3 L1 | Liu Zige | China | 2:14.25 | |
| 21 | H3 L8 | Mandy Loots | South Africa | 2:15.19 | |
| 22 | H5 L8 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:15.76 | |
| 23 | H2 L3 | Marcela Kubalčíková | Czech Republic | 2:17.10 | |
| 24 | H2 L5 | Bernadette Lee | Singapore | 2:17.39 | |
| 25 | H4 L2 | Hye Ra Choi | South Korea | 2:17.69 | |
| 26 | H2 L4 | Channelle Van Wyk | South Africa | 2:17.77 | |
| 27 | H5 L1 | Cheng Wan-tong | Chinese Taipei | 2:19.04 | |
| 28 | H2 L2 | Ting Wen Quah | Singapore | 2:21.50 | |
| 29 | H2 L8 | Phan Thi Hanh | Vietnam | 2:21.55 | |
| 30 | H2 L1 | Angela Galea | Malta | 2:21.87 | |
| 31 | H2 L6 | Yang Chin-kuei | Chinese Taipei | 2:22.35 | |
| 32 | H1 L5 | Lacken Malateste | Tahiti | 2:23.95 | |
| 33 | H2 L7 | Natnapa Prommuenwai | Thailand | 2:24.06 | |
| 34 | H1 L6 | Davina Mangion | Malta | 2:27.06 | |
| 35 | H1 L3 | Ana Hernandez Duarte | El Salvador | 2:28.13 | |
| 36 | H1 L7 | Sharon Fajardo | Honduras | 2:29.27 | |
| 37 | H1 L2 | Parita Parekh | India | 2:42.24 | |
| 38 | H1 L1 | Binta Zahra Diop | Senegal | 2:45.79 | |
| -- | -- | Simona Muccioli | San Marino | DNS | |