# Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 31 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 59 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 56 swam.
Existing records at the start of the event were:
* World Record (WR): 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece.
* Championship Record (CR): 2:07.40, HE Cihong (China), Rome 1994 (11 September 1994)

## Results
### Finals

| Place | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1st | Margaret Hoelzer | USA | 2:07.16 | CR, NR |
| 2nd | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:07.54 | |
| 3rd | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:08.54 | |
| 4th | Esther Baron | France | 2:09.59 | |
| 5th | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:10.57 | |
| 6th | Nikolett Szepesi | Hungary | 2:10.66 | |
| 7th | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:11.09 | |
| 8th | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:11.41 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Note |
| 1 | Margaret Hoelzer | USA | 2:07.70 | Q, NR |
| 2 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:07.76 | Q |
| 3 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:08.82 | Q |
| 4 | Esther Baron | France | 2:10.55 | Q |
| 5 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:10.69 | Q |
| 6 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:11.16 | Q |
| 6 | Nikolett Szepesi | Hungary | 2:11.16 | Q |
| 8 | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:11.20 | Q |
| 9 | Iryna Amshennikova | Ukraine | 2:11.49 | |
| 10 | Escarlata Bernard Gonzalez | Spain | 2:11.72 | |
| 11 | Frances Adcock | Australia | 2:12.04 | |
| 12 | Elizabeth Beisel | USA | 2:12.09 | |
| 13 | Hannah McLean | New Zealand | 2:13.12 | |
| 14 | Joanna Fargus | Australia | 2:13.22 | |
| 15 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:13.52 | |
| 16 | Melissa Ingram | New Zealand | 2:14.07 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Note |
| 1 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:07.99 | Q |
| 2 | Esther Baron | France | 2:09.77 | Q |
| 3 | Margaret Hoelzer | USA | 2:10.25 | Q |
| 4 | Nikolett Szepesi | Hungary | 2:10.85 | Q |
| 5 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:11.12 | Q |
| 6 | Joanna Fargus | Australia | 2:11.50 | Q |
| 7 | Frances Adcock | Australia | 2:11.60 | Q |
| 8 | Elizabeth Beisel | USA | 2:11.91 | Q |
| 9 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:11.92 | Q |
| 10 | Escarlata Bernard Gonzalez | Spain | 2:12.43 | Q |
| 11 | Hannah McLean | New Zealand | 2:12.58 | Q |
| 12 | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:12.68 | Q |
| 13 | Melissa Ingram | New Zealand | 2:12.97 | Q |
| 14 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:13.03 | Q |
| 15 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:13.04 | Q |
| 16 | Iryna Amshennikova | Ukraine | 2:13.05 | Q |
| 17 | Zhao Jing | China | 2:13.12 | |
| 18 | Carin Möller | Sweden | 2:13.32 | NR |
| 19 | Anastasia Zuyeva | Russia | 2:13.54 | |
| 20 | Melanie Marshall | Great Britain | 2:13.60 | |
| 21 | Kelly Stefanyshyn | Canada | 2:13.65 | |
| 22 | Aliaksandra Kavaleva | Belarus | 2:14.09 | |
| 23 | Erin Volcán | Venezuela | 2:14.89 | |
| 24 | Anna Gostomelsky | Israel | 2:14.92 | |
| 25 | Nicole Hetzer | Germany | 2:15.02 | |
| 26 | Julia Wilkinson | Canada | 2:15.39 | |
| 27 | BAI Anqi | China | 2:15.51 | |
| 28 | Iwona Lefanowicz | Poland | 2:15.58 | |
| 29 | Therese Svendsen | Sweden | 2:16.18 | |
| 30 | Sanja Jovanović | Croatia | 2:16.38 | |
| 31 | Kateryna Zubkova | Ukraine | 2:16.52 | |
| 32 | Melanie Nocher | Ireland | 2:17.29 | |
| 33 | Valentina Georgiana Brat | Romania | 2:18.78 | |
| 34 | Yoo Jin Jung | South Korea | 2:18.80 | |
| 35 | Lourdes Villaseñor | Mexico | 2:20.47 | |
| 36 | Man Hsu Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:21.55 | |
| 37 | Nam Eun Lee | South Korea | 2:22.25 | |
| 38 | Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthron | Thailand | 2:22.66 | |
| 39 | Hsu Jung He | Chinese Taipei | 2:24.22 | |
| 40 | Nazil Ege Calisal | Turkey | 2:25.03 | |
| 41 | Ming Xiu Ong | Malaysia | 2:25.15 | |
| 42 | Kiera Aitken | Bermuda | 2:26.32 | |
| 43 | Sook Fun Chai | Malaysia | 2:26.38 | |
| 44 | Maftunabonu Tuhtasinova | Uzbekistan | 2:26.55 | |
| 45 | Wenika Kaewchaiwong | Thailand | 2:27.22 | |
| 46 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 2:27.55 | |
| 47 | Layla Alghul | Jordan | 2:27.77 | |
| 48 | Slavica Pavic | Peru | 2:28.02 | |
| 49 | Yulduz Kuchkarova | Uzbekistan | 2:29.05 | |
| 50 | Thi Cuc Hoang | Vietnam | 2:29.20 | |
| 51 | Weng Kuan | Macao | 2:30.61 | |
| 52 | Massie Milagros Carrillo | Peru | 2:32.06 | |
| 53 | Lacy Palmer-Martin | Saint Lucia | 2:39.24 | |
| 54 | Siona Huxley | Saint Lucia | 2:40.96 | |
| 55 | Anouchka Diane Etiennette | Mauritius | 2:44.35 | |
| 56 | Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora | Nicaragua | 2:45.98 | |
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