# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The Women's 200m Individual Medley event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 24 and 25 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinals heats were 24 July; the Final was 25 July.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:09.72 swum by Yanyan Wu (China) on 17 October 1997 in Shanghai, China
* CR: 2:10.75 swum by Yana Klochkova (Ukraine) on 21 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Katie Hoff | USA | 2:10.41 | CR |
| 2 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:11.13 | |
| 3 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:13.32 | |
| 4 | Whitney Myers | USA | 2:13.90 | |
| 5 | Katarzyna Baranowska | Poland | 2:14.39 | |
| 6 | Brooke Hanson | Australia | 2:14.70 | |
| 7 | Maiko Fujino | Japan | 2:15.27 | |
| 8 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:16.09 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L4 | Katie Hoff | USA | 2:11.71 | q |
| 2 | S1 L5 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:13.40 | q |
| 3 | S1 L4 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:13.68 | q |
| 4 | S2 L5 | Brooke Hanson | Australia | 2:13.83 | q |
| 5 | S1 L3 | Katarzyna Baranowska | Poland | 2:13.86 | q |
| 6 | S1 L6 | Whitney Myers | USA | 2:14.03 | q |
| 7 | S2 L3 | Maiko Fujino | Japan | 2:15.13 | q |
| 8 | S2 L8 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:16.30 | q |
| 9 | S2 L1 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:16.62 | |
| 10 | S1 L8 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:16.69 | |
| 11 | S2 L2 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:16.77 | |
| 12 | S1 L7 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:17.02 | |
| 13 | S1 L1 | Julie Hjorth-Hansen | Denmark | 2:17.09 | |
| 14 | S2 L7 | Yoo-Sun Nam | South Korea | 2:17.57 | |
| 15 | S1 L2 | Ji Yeon Jung | South Korea | 2:17.91 | |
| 16 | S2 L6 | Yafei Zhou | China | 2:18.29 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H5 L4 | Katie Hoff | United States | 2:12.38 | q |
| 2 | H5 L5 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:13.67 | q |
| 3 | H3 L4 | Brooke Hanson | Australia | 2:14.49 | q |
| 4 | H4 L4 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:14.51 | q |
| 5 | H3 L2 | Maiko Fujino | Japan | 2:15.45 | q |
| 6 | H3 L5 | Katarzyna Baranowska | China | 2:15.46 | q |
| 7 | H4 L3 | Yafei Zhou | China | 2:16.03 | q |
| 8 | H4 L5 | Whitney Myers | United States | 2:16.50 | q |
| 9 | H5 L2 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:16.61 | q |
| 10 | H3 L1 | Ji Yeon Jung | South Korea | 2:16.84 | q |
| 11 | H5 L8 | Yoo-Sun Nam | South Korea | 2:16.92 | q |
| 12 | H4 L2 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:16.95 | q |
| 13 | H3 L3 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:17.04 | q |
| 14 | H5 L7 | Julie Hjorth-Hansen | Denmark | 2:17.28 | q |
| 15 | H3 L6 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:17.36 | q |
| 16 | H5 L3 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:17.41 | q |
| 17 | H4 L6 | Jing Zhao | China | 2:17.83 | |
| 18 | H3 L7 | Aiko Morishita | Japan | 2:18.14 | |
| 19 | H4 L7 | Man-Hsu Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:18.59 | |
| 20 | H4 L1 | Daria Beliakina | Russia | 2:18.67 | |
| 21 | H5 L1 | Simona Păduraru | Romania | 2:19.38 | |
| 22 | H4 L8 | Nina Dittrich | Austria | 2:19.76 | |
| 23 | H5 L6 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:19.89 | |
| 24 | H2 L4 | Louise Jansen | Denmark | 2:20.34 | |
| 25 | H3 L8 | Yi Ting Siow | Malaysia | 2:22.36 | |
| 26 | H2 L5 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 2:22.72 | |
| 27 | H2 L6 | Alia Atkinson | Jamaica | 2:26.08 | |
| 28 | H2 L7 | Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir | Iceland | 2:27.97 | |
| 29 | H2 L1 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 2:28.41 | |
| 30 | H2 L3 | Mylene Ong | Singapore | 2:29.80 | |
| 31 | H1 L4 | Dannielle Van Zijl | Namibia | 2:30.61 | |
| 32 | H2 L2 | Laura Rodriguez | Dominican Republic | 2:30.87 | |
| 33 | H1 L5 | Imane Boulaamane | Morocco | 2:33.61 | |
| 34 | H2 L8 | Jonay Briedenhann | Namibia | 2:34.15 | |
| 35 | H1 L3 | Parita Parekh | India | 2:41.05 | |
| 36 | H1 L6 | Kiran Khan | Pakistan | 2:41.75 | |
| 37 | H1 L7 | Sana Wahid | Pakistan | 2:57.68 | |
| 38 | H1 L2 | Aminath Rouya | Maldives | 3:02.89 | |