# Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Kaylee McKeown (AUS) | 2:03.14 | Sydney, Australia | 10 March 2023 |
| Competition record | Regan Smith (USA) | 2:03.35 | Gwangju, South Korea | 26 July 2019 |

## Results
### Heats

The Heats were held on 16 February at 09:52.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Claire Curzan | United States | 2:10.50 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Jaclyn Barclay | Australia | 2:10.82 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Gabriela Georgieva | Bulgaria | 2:10.86 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy | Hungary | 2:10.95 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Neutral Independent Athletes | 2:11.34 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Dóra Molnár | Hungary | 2:11.35 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Laura Bernat | Poland | 2:11.51 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Adela Piskorska | Poland | 2:11.65 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel | 2:11.78 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 7 | Sun Mingxia | China | 2:11.79 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 4 | Freya Colbert | Great Britain | 2:12.08 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | África Zamorano | Spain | 2:12.55 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 3 | Lilla Bognar | United States | 2:12.56 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Ingrid Wilm | Canada | 2:12.67 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Cindy Cheung | Hong Kong | 2:13.11 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Hannah Pearse | South Africa | 2:13.26 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Maria Godden | Ireland | 2:13.30 | |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | Camila Rebelo | Portugal | 2:13.33 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Xeniya Ignatova | Kazakhstan | 2:14.22 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Kristen Romano | Puerto Rico | 2:14.46 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Chua Xiandi | Philippines | 2:15.01 | |
| 22 | 2 | 1 | Kim Seung-won | South Korea | 2:17.16 | |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Janja Šegel | Slovenia | 2:17.31 | |
| 24 | 2 | 0 | Celina Márquez | El Salvador | 2:18.69 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Alexia Sotomayor | Peru | 2:20.05 | |
| 26 | 4 | 0 | Natalia Zaiteva | Moldova | 2:20.07 | |
| 27 | 3 | 0 | Carolina Cermelli | Panama | 2:20.33 | |
| 28 | 4 | 9 | Andrea Becali | Cuba | 2:21.54 | |
| 29 | 1 | 4 | Ariana Dirkzwager | Laos | 2:24.69 | |
| 30 | 1 | 5 | Jessica Humphrey | Namibia | 2:26.07 | |
| 31 | 3 | 9 | Ganga Senavirathne | Sri Lanka | 2:29.23 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Aynura Primova | Turkmenistan | 2:33.02 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:20.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Claire Curzan | United States | 2:07.01 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Jaclyn Barclay | Australia | 2:08.85 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy | Hungary | 2:09.42 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Neutral Independent Athletes | 2:09.76 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Gabriela Georgieva | Bulgaria | 2:09.95 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Laura Bernat | Poland | 2:10.00 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 3 | Dóra Molnár | Hungary | 2:10.31 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Freya Colbert | Great Britain | 2:10.67 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel | 2:10.94 | |
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Lilla Bognar | United States | 2:11.26 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | África Zamorano | Spain | 2:11.44 | |
| 12 | 1 | 6 | Adela Piskorska | Poland | 2:11.57 | |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Ingrid Wilm | Canada | 2:11.88 | |
| 14 | 1 | 2 | Sun Mingxia | China | 2:12.07 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | Hannah Pearse | South Africa | 2:13.29 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Cindy Cheung | Hong Kong | 2:13.85 | |

### Final

The final was held on 17 February at 19:16.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Claire Curzan | United States | 2:05.77 |
| | 5 | Jaclyn Barclay | Australia | 2:07.03 |
| | 6 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Neutral Independent Athletes | 2:09.08 |
| 4 | 3 | Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy | Hungary | 2:09.76 |
| 5 | 7 | Laura Bernat | Poland | 2:09.92 |
| 6 | 2 | Gabriela Georgieva | Bulgaria | 2:10.11 |
| 7 | 1 | Dóra Molnár | Hungary | 2:11.01 |
| 8 | 8 | Freya Colbert | Great Britain | 2:11.22 |