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

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:52.98 | Rome | July 29, 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 5 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:56.66 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:56.87 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Bronte Barratt | Australia | 1:57.37 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:57.40 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Kylie Palmer | Australia | 1:57.42 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:57.43 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 6 | Silke Lippok | Germany | 1:57.53 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Lauren Boyle | New Zealand | 1:57.72 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Camille Muffat | France | 1.57.99 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:58.01 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 8 | Melania Costa Schmid | Spain | 1:58.04 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:58.26 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 8 | Barbara Jardin | Canada | 1:58.26 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:58.27 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Tang Yi | China | 1:58.30 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 2 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 1:58.74 | swimoff |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 1:58.74 | swimoff |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Samantha Cheverton | Canada | 1:58.83 | |
| 19 | 5 | 3 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 1:58.89 | |
| 20 | 7 | 2 | Morgan Scroggy | United States | 1:59.22 | |
| 21 | 7 | 3 | Zhu Qianwei | China | 1:59.22 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 1:59.30 | |
| 23 | 5 | 7 | Joanne Jackson | Great Britain | 1:59.36 | |
| 24 | 5 | 2 | Rebecca Adlington | Great Britain | 1:59.40 | |
| 25 | 4 | 1 | Karin Prinsloo | South Africa | 1:59.52 | |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 1:59.96 | |
| 27 | 6 | 7 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 2:00.05 | |
| 28 | 4 | 3 | Sze Hang Yu | Hong Kong | 2:00.52 | |
| 29 | 4 | 5 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 2:00.56 | |
| 30 | 3 | 3 | Joerdis Steinegger | Austria | 2:01.06 | |
| 31 | 3 | 5 | Melanie Nocher | Ireland | 2:01.33 | |
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 2:01.50 | |
| 33 | 4 | 7 | Anna Stylianou | Cyprus | 2:01.62 | |
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Liliana Ibanez | Mexico | 2:01.70 | |
| 35 | 4 | 8 | Katarina Filova | Slovakia | 2:01.96 | |
| 36 | 3 | 8 | Katarina Listopadova | Slovakia | 2:02.15 | |
| 37 | 3 | 7 | Ranohon Amanova | Uzbekistan | 2:02.89 | |
| 38 | 3 | 2 | Kim Jungh-Hye | South Korea | 2:03.13 | |
| 39 | 3 | 1 | Natthanan Junkrajang | Thailand | 2:03.68 | |
| 40 | 2 | 4 | Andrea Cedrón | Peru | 2:08.10 | |
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Bayan Jumah | Syria | 2:09.08 | |
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Branka Vranjes | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:09.64 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Heather Arseth | Mauritius | 2:10.93 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Olivia de Maroussem | Mauritius | 2:12.28 | |
| 45 | 2 | 6 | Ma Cheok Mei | Macau | 2:12.39 | |
| 46 | 2 | 8 | Britany van Lange | Guyana | 2:16.40 | |
| 47 | 1 | 3 | Victoria Chentsova | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:27.86 | |
| 48 | 1 | 5 | Aure Fanchette | Seychelles | 2:31.88 | |
| 49 | 1 | 6 | Jennet Saryyeva | Turkmenistan | 2:41.27 | |
| – | 1 | 4 | Gouri Kotecha | Tanzania | | DNS |
| – | 2 | 5 | Victoria Ho | Jamaica | | DNS |
| – | 3 | 6 | Andreina Pinto | Venezuela | | DNS |

### Swimoff

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 1:58.19 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 1:58.55 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:14.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:55.54 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:56.42 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:56.71 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:57.53 | |
| 5 | 6 | Lauren Boyle | New Zealand | 1:58.09 | |
| 6 | 8 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 1:58.28 | |
| 7 | 2 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:58.52 | |
| 8 | 1 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:59.71 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Kylie Palmer | Australia | 1:56.59 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Camille Muffat | France | 1:56.62 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Bronte Barratt | Australia | 1:56.90 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Silke Lippok | Germany | 1:57.02 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:57.07 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Melania Costa Schmid | Spain | 1:57.83 | NR |
| 7 | 8 | Tang Yi | China | 1:57.91 | |
| 8 | 1 | Barbara Jardin | Canada | 1:58.18 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:55.58 |
| | 3 | Kylie Palmer | Australia | 1:56.04 |
| | 6 | Camille Muffat | France | 1:56.10 |
| 4 | 2 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:56.41 |
| 5 | 7 | Bronte Barratt | Australia | 1:56.60 |
| 6 | 8 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:56.98 |
| 7 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:57.63 |
| 8 | 1 | Silke Lippok | Germany | 1:58.26 |