# Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Federica Pellegrini (ITA) | 1:52.98 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |
| Competition record | Federica Pellegrini (ITA) | 1:52.98 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 25 July at 09:49.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:56.07 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Katie Ledecky | United States | 1:56.27 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 6 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 1:56.43 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Emma McKeon | Australia | 1:56.61 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 6 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 1:56.62 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Leah Smith | United States | 1:57.04 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:57.06 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 1:57.06 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 5 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 1:57.15 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Charlotte Bonnet | France | 1:57.34 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Chihiro Igarashi | Japan | 1:57.67 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 6 | Li Bingjie | China | 1:57.79 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Ai Yanhan | China | 1:58.04 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 1:58.16 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | Canada | 1:58.38 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 1 | Robin Neumann | Netherlands | 1:58.66 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 1 | Ariarne Titmus | Australia | 1:58.79 | |
| 18 | 4 | 8 | Maria Ugolkova | Switzerland | 1:59.13 | |
| 19 | 4 | 0 | Andrea Murez | Israel | 1:59.75 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:59.92 | |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Manuella Lyrio | Brazil | 1:59.24 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Lee Ea-sop | South Korea | 1:59.38 | |
| 23 | 6 | 8 | Tomomi Aoki | Japan | 1:59.44 | |
| 24 | 5 | 7 | Alice Mizzau | Italy | 2:00.10 | |
| 25 | 6 | 7 | Anastasia Guzhenkova | Russia | 2:00.24 | |
| 26 | 3 | 5 | Diana Durães | Portugal | 2:01.48 | NR |
| 27 | 6 | 0 | Signe Bro | Denmark | 2:02.23 | |
| 28 | 5 | 9 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | North Macedonia | 2:02.92 | |
| 29 | 6 | 9 | Anna Kolářová | Czech Republic | 2:02.99 | |
| 30 | 3 | 7 | McKenna DeBever | Peru | 2:03.16 | |
| 31 | 3 | 0 | Monique Olivier | Luxembourg | 2:03.26 | |
| 32 | 3 | 3 | Helena Moreno | Costa Rica | 2:03.58 | |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | Jessica Camposano | Colombia | 2:04.13 | |
| 34 | 4 | 9 | Gaja Natlačen | Slovenia | 2:04.22 | |
| 35 | 3 | 8 | Ressa Dewi | Indonesia | 2:05.25 | |
| 36 | 3 | 6 | Nicole Oliva | Philippines | 2:05.55 | |
| 37 | 3 | 2 | Gabriela Santis | Guatemala | 2:06.94 | |
| 38 | 2 | 6 | Devyn Leask | Zimbabwe | 2:08.13 | |
| 39 | 3 | 9 | Nicole Rautemberg | Paraguay | 2:08.42 | |
| 40 | 2 | 4 | Lauren Hew | Cayman Islands | 2:08.91 | |
| 41 | 1 | 6 | Arianna Sanna | Dominican Republic | 2:08.45 | |
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Dara Al-Bakry | Jordan | 2:10.62 | |
| 43 | 1 | 4 | Sonia Tumiotto | Tanzania | 2:11.01 | |
| 44 | 2 | 5 | Tan Chi Yan | Macau | 2:11.61 | |
| 45 | 2 | 3 | Lani Cabrera | Barbados | 2:11.77 | |
| 46 | 2 | 1 | Ishani Senanayake | Sri Lanka | 2:13.38 | |
| 47 | 2 | 8 | Yusra Mardini | FINA Independent Athletes | 2:15.80 | |
| 48 | 1 | 5 | Diana Basho | Albania | 2:22.86 | |
| 49 | 2 | 0 | Bianca Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 2:24.67 | |
| 50 | 2 | 7 | Osisang Chilton | Palau | 2:25.83 | |
| 51 | 2 | 9 | Tisa Shakya | Nepal | 2:29.20 | |
| 52 | 1 | 3 | Jin Ju Thompson | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:36.47 | |
| | 3 | 1 | Julia Hassler | Liechtenstein | DNS | DNS |
| | 5 | 0 | Andreina Pinto | Venezuela | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinal were held on 25 July at 18:44.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Katie Ledecky | United States | 1:54.69 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Emma McKeon | Australia | 1:54.99 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 1:55.08 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 2 | Charlotte Bonnet | France | 1:56.28 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Leah Smith | United States | 1:56.34 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Li Bingjie | China | 1:57.11 | |
| 7 | 1 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 1:58.46 | |
| 8 | 8 | Robin Neumann | Netherlands | 1:58.80 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:55.58 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 1:55.98 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 1:56.21 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:56.50 | |
| 5 | 1 | Ai Yanhan | China | 1:56.80 | |
| 6 | 2 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 1:57.48 | |
| 7 | 7 | Chihiro Igarashi | Japan | 1:57.96 | |
| 8 | 8 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | Canada | 1:58.15 | |

### Final

The final was held on 26 July at 17:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 6 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:54.73 | |
| | 4 | Katie Ledecky | United States | 1:55.18 | |
| | 5 | Emma McKeon | Australia | 1:55.18 | |
| 4 | 3 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 1:55.26 | |
| 5 | 7 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 1:55.96 | NR |
| 6 | 8 | Leah Smith | United States | 1:56.06 | |
| 7 | 2 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 1:56.35 | |
| 8 | 1 | Charlotte Bonnet | France | 1:56.62 | |