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

The Women's 200 Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 26 and 27 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 26 July, preliminary heats and semifinals occurred, and on 27 July a final heat was swum in the evening. 64 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 62 swam in one of 8 heats. The top-16 swimmers from the preliminary heats advanced on to semifinals; the top-8 swimmers in the two semifinals heats advanced onto the next night's final.
The existing records at the start of the event were:
* World record (WR): 1:56.64, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), 3 August 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
* Championship record (CR): 1:56.78, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), 6 September 1994 in Rome, Italy.

## Results
### Final

| Place | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Solenne Figues | France | 1:58.60 |
| 2 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:58.73 |
| 3 | Yang Yu | China | 1:59.08 |
| 3 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 1:59.08 |
| 5 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:59.23 |
| 6 | Paulina Barzycka | Poland | 1:59.34 |
| 7 | Melanie Marshall | Great Britain | 1:59.36 |
| 8 | Linda Mackenzie | Australia | 2:00.02 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | Solenne Figues | France | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 2 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:58.79 | Q |
| 3 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:58.82 | Q |
| 4 | Melanie Marshall | Great Britain | 1:58.86 | Q |
| 5 | Linda Mackenzie | Australia | 1:59.00 | Q |
| 6 | Paulina Barzycka | Poland | 1:59.18 | Q |
| 7 | Yang Yu | China | 1:59.31 | Q |
| 8 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 1:59.35 | Q |
| 9 | Katie Hoff | USA | 1:59.36 | |
| 10 | Whitney Myers | USA | 1:59.38 | |
| 11 | Camelia Potec | Romania | 1:59.41 | |
| 12 | Claudia Poll | Costa Rica | 2:00.17 | |
| 13 | Sophie Simard | Canada | 2:00.26 | |
| 14 | Petra Dallmann | Germany | 2:00.32 | |
| 15 | Norie Urabe | Japan | 2:00.49 | |
| 16 | Jiaying Pang | China | 2:00.57 | |

### Prelims

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:59.12 | Q |
| 2 | Katie Hoff | USA | 1:59.28 | Q |
| 3 | Linda Mackenzie | Australia | 1:59.32 | Q |
| 4 | Yang Yu | China | 1:59.72 | Q |
| 5 | Solenne Figues | France | 1:59.75 | Q |
| 6 | Whitney Myers | USA | 1:59.83 | Q |
| 7 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:59.88 | Q |
| 8 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 1:59.90 | Q |
| 9 | Norie Urabe | Japan | 2:00.06 | Q |
| 10 | Camelia Potec | Romania | 2:00.11 | Q |
| 11 | Melanie Marshall | Great Britain | 2:00.17 | Q |
| 12 | Claudia Poll | Costa Rica | 2:00.19 | Q |
| 13 | Sophie Simard | Canada | 2:00.24 | Q |
| 14 | Paulina Barzycka | Poland | 2:00.34 | Q |
| 15 | Jiaying Pang | China | 2:00.41 | Q |
| 16 | Petra Dallmann | Germany | 2:00.63 | Q |
| 17 | Shayne Reese | Australia | 2:00.80 | |
| 18 | Daria Beliakina | Russia | 2:01.08 | |
| 19 | Meike Freitag | Germany | 2:01.19 | |
| 20 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:01.20 | |
| 21 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:01.35 | |
| 22 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 2:01.65 | |
| 23 | Alison Fitch | New Zealand | 2:02.15 | |
| 24 | Ji Eun Lee | South Korea | 2:02.25 | |
| 25 | Cecilia Biagioli | Argentina | 2:02.69 | |
| 26 | Monique Ferreira | Brazil | 2:03.39 | |
| 27 | Simona Ricciardi | Italy | 2:03.43 | |
| 28 | Chin-Kuei Yang | Chinese Taipei | 2:03.56 | |
| 29 | Mariana Brochado | Brazil | 2:03.59 | |
| 30 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 2:03.63 | |
| 31 | Tatiana Rouba | Spain | 2:03.75 | |
| 32 | Na-Ri Park | South Korea | 2:03.78 | |
| 33 | Katarzyna Kowalczyk | Poland | 2:03.96 | |
| 34 | Julie Hjorth-Hansen | Denmark | 2:03.97 | |
| 35 | Ionela Cozma | Romania | 2:04.13 | |
| 36 | Hang Yu Sze | Hong Kong | 2:06.10 | |
| 37 | Christine Mailliet | Luxembourg | 2:06.28 | |
| 38 | Jasna Ovsenik | Slovenia | 2:06.31 | |
| 39 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 2:06.37 | |
| 40 | Man-Hsu Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:06.59 | |
| 41 | Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada | El Salvador | 2:07.81 | |
| 42 | Jiratida Phinyosophon | Thailand | 2:07.97 | |
| 43 | Maryia Hanchar | Belarus | 2:08.07 | |
| 44 | Gisela Morales | Guatemala | 2:08.16 | |
| 45 | Alia Atkinson | Jamaica | 2:08.62 | |
| 46 | Sarah Chahed | Tunisia | 2:08.63 | |
| 47 | Carolina Cerqueda | Andorra | 2:08.80 | |
| 48 | Mylene Ong | Singapore | 2:08.84 | |
| 49 | Paola Duguet | Colombia | 2:09.50 | |
| 50 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 2:10.22 | |
| 51 | Wing Yan Fung | Hong Kong | 2:10.29 | |
| 52 | Shrone Austin | Seychelles | 2:11.15 | |
| 53 | Man Wai Fong | Macao | 2:11.90 | |
| 54 | Olga Beresneva | Israel | 2:12.32 | |
| 55 | Jakie Wellman | Zambia | 2:12.43 | |
| 56 | Davina Mangion | Malta | 2:12.79 | |
| 57 | Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn | Thailand | 2:13.04 | |
| 58 | Imane Boulaamane | Morocco | 2:13.63 | |
| 59 | Simona Muccioli | San Marino | 2:15.02 | |
| 60 | Laura Rodriguez | Dominican Republic | 2:17.98 | |
| -- | Anifath F.M. Okanla | Benin | DNS | |
| -- | Brittany Reimer | Canada | DNS | |