# Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place July 24 and the final was held July 25.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Ariana Kukors | United States | 2:06.15 | Rome | July 27, 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | Caitlin Leverenz | United States | 2:11.01 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Mireia Belmonte Garcia | Spain | 2:11.38 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:11.53 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:11.63 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 2:11.64 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Ariana Kukors | United States | 2:11.84 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 2:11.95 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Stephanie Rice | Australia | 2:12.68 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Choi Hye-Ra | South Korea | 2:13.00 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Julia Wilkinson | Canada | 2:13.16 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:13.32 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:13.33 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 6 | Erica Morningstar | Canada | 2:13.71 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 8 | Barbora Závadová | Czech Republic | 2:14.08 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | Great Britain | 2:14.30 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 1 | Fanny Lecluyse | Belgium | 2:14.97 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Zhu Xiaoya | China | 2:14.98 | |
| 18 | 5 | 8 | Katheryn Anne Meaklim | South Africa | 2:15.15 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Stina Gardell | Sweden | 2:15.45 | |
| 20 | 5 | 7 | Yuliya Efimova | Russia | 2:15.56 | |
| 21 | 2 | 4 | Ganna Dzerkal | Ukraine | 2:16.17 | |
| 22 | 2 | 2 | Ranohon Amanova | Uzbekistan | 2:16.75 | |
| 23 | 4 | 1 | Ida Sandin | Sweden | 2:16.87 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Jördis Steinegger | Austria | 2:17.09 | |
| 25 | 2 | 3 | Tanja Smid | Slovenia | 2:17.45 | |
| 26 | 2 | 8 | Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir | Iceland | 2:18.20 | NR |
| 27 | 3 | 7 | Alessia Polieri | Italy | 2:18.69 | |
| 28 | 2 | 1 | Nadia Vieira | Portugal | 2:19.74 | |
| 29 | 2 | 6 | Emilia Pikkarainen | Finland | 2:19.94 | |
| 30 | 2 | 5 | Cheng Wan-jung | Chinese Taipei | 2:20.20 | |
| 31 | 1 | 4 | Natthanan Junkrajang | Thailand | 2:20.38 | |
| 32 | 2 | 7 | Erla Haraldsdóttir | Iceland | 2:21.86 | |
| 33 | 1 | 5 | Samantha Arevalo | Ecuador | 2:22.39 | NR |
| 34 | 1 | 6 | Ma Cheok Mei | Macau | 2:27.59 | |
| 35 | 1 | 3 | Nibal Yamout | Lebanon | 2:27.93 | |
| 36 | 1 | 7 | Daniella van den Berg | Aruba | 2:30.02 | |
| 37 | 1 | 2 | Loreen Whitfield | American Samoa | 2:31.97 | |
| | 4 | 6 | Rita Medrano | Mexico | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:24.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Stephanie Rice | Australia | 2:09.65 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ariana Kukors | United States | 2:09.83 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:10.08 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Julia Wilkinson | Canada | 2:11.76 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Mireia Belmonte Garcia | Spain | 2:12.37 | |
| 6 | 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:12.51 | |
| 7 | 8 | Fanny Lecluyse | Belgium | 2:13.68 | NR |
| 8 | 1 | Barbora Závadová | Czech Republic | 2:14.03 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 2:10.65 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 2:10.95 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Caitlin Leverenz | United States | 2:11.15 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:11.71 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:12.21 | |
| 6 | 1 | Erica Morningstar | Canada | 2:12.67 | |
| 7 | 8 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | Great Britain | 2:13.26 | |
| 8 | 2 | Choi Hye-Ra | South Korea | 2:15.90 | |

### Final

The final was held 19:17.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 3 | Ye Shiwen | China | 2:08.90 |
| | 6 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 2:09.00 |
| | 5 | Ariana Kukors | United States | 2:09.12 |
| 4 | 4 | Stephanie Rice | Australia | 2:09.65 |
| 5 | 7 | Caitlin Leverenz | United States | 2:10.40 |
| 6 | 1 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:11.24 |
| 7 | 2 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 2:11.36 |
| 8 | 8 | Julia Wilkinson | Canada | 2:16.18 |