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

The Women's 200 metre backstroke 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 | Regan Smith (USA) | 1:58.83 | Singapore, Singapore | 2 November 2024 |
| Competition record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 1:59.23 | Doha, Qatar | 5 December 2014 |
The following record was established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 15 December | Final | Regan Smith | United States | 1:58.04 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats was held on 15 December at 09:46.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 2 | Summer McIntosh | Canada | 2:01.52 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Neutral Athletes A | 2:01.78 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 1 | Carmen Weiler | Spain | 2:02.16 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 3 | 6 | Phoebe Bacon | United States | 2:02.36 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Regan Smith | United States | 2:02.42 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Pauline Mahieu | France | 2:03.26 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Iona Anderson | Australia | 2:03.57 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Milana Stepanova | Neutral Athletes B | 2:04.62 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Gabriela Georgieva | Bulgaria | 2:04.63 | R |
| 10 | 5 | 8 | Dóra Molnár | Hungary | 2:04.88 | R |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Aimi Nagaoka | Japan | 2:04.91 | |
| 12 | 3 | 0 | Adela Piskorska | Poland | 2:05.19 | |
| 13 | 3 | 9 | Lottie Cullen | Ireland | 2:05.57 | |
| 14 | 4 | 5 | Bella Grant | Australia | 2:05.65 | |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | Aissia Prisecariu | Romania | 2:05.81 | |
| 16 | 4 | 8 | Regan Rathwell | Canada | 2:05.92 | |
| 17 | 5 | 2 | Giulia D'Innocenzo | Italy | 2:06.13 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Zhang Jingyan | China | 2:06.37 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy | Hungary | 2:06.69 | |
| 20 | 4 | 2 | Emma Godwin | New Zealand | 2:06.96 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Xeniya Ignatova | Kazakhstan | 2:07.00 | |
| 22 | 5 | 7 | Iris Julia Berger | Austria | 2:07.05 | |
| 23 | 3 | 8 | Kristen Romano | Puerto Rico | 2:07.60 | NR |
| 24 | 4 | 7 | Hannah Pearse | South Africa | 2:08.41 | |
| 25 | 4 | 9 | Justine Murdock | Lithuania | 2:08.86 | |
| 26 | 5 | 0 | Xiandi Chua | Philippines | 2:09.43 | |
| 27 | 3 | 7 | Cindy Cheung | Hong Kong | 2:09.49 | |
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Zuri Ferguson | Trinidad and Tobago | 2:10.62 | NR |
| 29 | 4 | 0 | Alexia Sotomayor | Peru | 2:12.40 | |
| 30 | 2 | 7 | Laurent Estrada | Cuba | 2:12.78 | |
| 31 | 2 | 8 | Danielle Titus | Barbados | 2:12.86 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 6 | Anishta Teeluck | Mauritius | 2:14.13 | |
| 33 | 2 | 2 | Elisabeth Erlendsdóttir | Faroe Islands | 2:14.24 | |
| 34 | 5 | 9 | Nika Sharafutdinova | Ukraine | 2:14.86 | |
| 35 | 2 | 9 | Melissa Diego | Guatemala | 2:15.02 | NR |
| 36 | 2 | 1 | Taline Mourad | Lebanon | 2:16.30 | NR |
| 37 | 2 | 4 | Natalia Zaiteva | Moldova | 2:16.73 | |
| 38 | 2 | 3 | Ariuntamir Enkh-Amgalan | Mongolia | 2:20.37 | |
| 39 | 2 | 0 | Wong Un Iao | Macau | 2:23.68 | |
| 40 | 1 | 5 | Marseleima Moss | Fiji | 2:24.22 | NR |
| 41 | 1 | 4 | Idealy Tendrinavalona | Madagascar | 2:26.25 | |
| 42 | 1 | 3 | Piper Raho | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:34.78 | |
| | 3 | 3 | Qian Xinan | China | Did not start | Did not start |

### Final

The final was held on 15 December at 18:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Regan Smith | United States | 1:58.04 | WR |
| | 4 | Summer McIntosh | Canada | 1:59.96 | WJ |
| | 5 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Neutral Athletes A | 2:00.56 | |
| 4 | 6 | Phoebe Bacon | United States | 2:00.76 | |
| 5 | 3 | Carmen Weiler | Spain | 2:02.26 | |
| 6 | 7 | Pauline Mahieu | France | 2:03.21 | |
| 7 | 1 | Iona Anderson | Australia | 2:04.60 | |
| 8 | 8 | Milana Stepanova | Neutral Athletes B | 2:05.06 | |