# 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Siobhán Haughey (HKG) | 1:50.31 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 16 December 2021 |
| Competition record | Siobhán Haughey (HKG) | 1:50.31 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 16 December 2021 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started at 09:02.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | Claire Weinstein | United States | 1:52.51 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | Canada | 1:52.81 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Lani Pallister | Australia | 1:53.01 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 5 | Leah Neale | Australia | 1:53.48 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 1:53.76 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 7 | Paige Madden | United States | 1:53.94 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Freya Anderson | Great Britain | 1:53.99 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Sofia Morini | Italy | 1:54.29 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | Giulia D'Innocenzo | Italy | 1:54.41 | R |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Lilla Minna Ábrahám | Hungary | 1:54.46 | R |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Daria Klepikova | Neutral Athletes B | 1:54.65 | |
| 12 | 4 | 5 | Nikolett Pádár | Hungary | 1:54.84 | |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Maria Fernanda Costa | Brazil | 1:55.00 | |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir | Iceland | 1:55.48 | |
| 15 | 5 | 8 | Nicole Maier | Germany | 1:55.75 | |
| 16 | 4 | 6 | Gong Zhenqi | China | 1:56.81 | |
| 17 | 3 | 8 | Sofia Åstedt | Sweden | 1:56.83 | |
| 18 | 2 | 6 | Gan Ching Hwee | Singapore | 1:56.85 | NR |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | María Daza | Spain | 1:57.19 | |
| 20 | 5 | 1 | Wiktoria Guść | Poland | 1:57.38 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Julia Mrozinski | Germany | 1:57.60 | |
| 22 | 4 | 2 | Daria Trofimova | Neutral Athletes B | 1:57.94 | |
| 23 | 3 | 0 | Francisca Martins | Portugal | 1:58.01 | |
| 24 | 3 | 2 | Kong Yaqi | China | 1:58.28 | |
| 25 | 2 | 4 | Smiltė Plytnykaitė | Lithuania | 1:59.43 | |
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Tiffany Murillo | Colombia | 1:59.96 | |
| 27 | 2 | 2 | Iman Avdić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:00.10 | |
| 28 | 2 | 3 | Andrea Becali | Cuba | 2:00.26 | |
| 29 | 2 | 5 | Jesse Welsh | New Zealand | 2:01.61 | |
| 30 | 5 | 9 | Zehra Bilgin | Turkey | 2:01.86 | |
| 31 | 2 | 7 | Logan Watson-Brown | Bermuda | 2:04.48 | |
| 32 | 2 | 8 | Paige van der Westhuizen | Zimbabwe | 2:04.89 | |
| 33 | 2 | 0 | Sara Jankovikj | North Macedonia | 2:05.10 | |
| 34 | 1 | 5 | Jehanara Nabi | Pakistan | 2:06.27 | NR |
| 35 | 2 | 1 | Keisy Castro | Costa Rica | 2:07.10 | |
| 36 | 2 | 9 | Maria Lopes Freitas | Angola | 2:09.58 | |
| 37 | 1 | 6 | Aiymkyz Aidaralieva | Kyrgyzstan | 2:09.89 | |
| 38 | 1 | 3 | Duana Lama | Nepal | 2:11.08 | |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Riga Shala | Kosovo | 2:12.27 | |
| 40 | 1 | 2 | Valentina Howell | Panama | 2:12.54 | |
| | 3 | 7 | Abbie Wood | Great Britain | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 9 | Laura Lahtinen | Finland | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 0 | Iris Julia Berger | Austria | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 7 | Janja Šegel | Slovenia | Did not start | Did not start |

### Final

The final was held at 18:26.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 1:50.62 | |
| | 5 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | Canada | 1:51.49 | AM |
| | 4 | Claire Weinstein | United States | 1:51.62 | WJ |
| 4 | 3 | Lani Pallister | Australia | 1:51.75 | |
| 5 | 1 | Freya Anderson | Great Britain | 1:52.14 | |
| 6 | 7 | Paige Madden | United States | 1:52.93 | |
| 7 | 6 | Leah Neale | Australia | 1:53.21 | |
| 8 | 8 | Sofia Morini | Italy | 1:54.17 | |