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

The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 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 | Annamay Pierse | Canada | 2:20.12 | Rome | July 30, 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

38 swimmers participated in 5 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Rebecca Soni | United States | 2:23.30 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 6 | Rikke Pedersen | Denmark | 2:25.86 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Yuliya Yefimova | Russia | 2:25.98 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:26.73 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | Marina García Urzainqui | Spain | 2:26.96 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 6 | Sally Foster | Australia | 2:27.07 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Annamay Pierse | Canada | 2:27.14 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | Martha McCabe | Canada | 2:27.16 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | Sun Ye | China | 2:27.17 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Rie Kaneto | Japan | 2:27.17 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Nađa Higl | Serbia | 2:27.39 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 8 | Back Su-Yeon | South Korea | 2:27.43 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Sara El Bekri | Morocco | 2:27.48 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 1 | Fanny Lecluyse | Belgium | 2:27.67 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Chiara Boggiatto | Italy | 2:27.84 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 1 | Stacey Tadd | Great Britain | 2:27.88 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 5 | Ji Liping | China | 2:27.91 | |
| 18 | 3 | 4 | Satomi Suzuki | Japan | 2:27.98 | |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Jeong Darae | South Korea | 2:28.14 | |
| 20 | 5 | 8 | Molly Renshaw | Great Britain | 2:28.35 | |
| 21 | 4 | 3 | Sara Nordenstam | Norway | 2:28.88 | |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Joline Höstman | Sweden | 2:28.88 | |
| 23 | 4 | 7 | Rebecca Kemp | Australia | 2:29.82 | |
| 24 | 2 | 4 | Jenna Laukkanen | Finland | 2:30.51 | |
| 25 | 2 | 3 | Martina Moravčíková | Czech Republic | 2:31.46 | |
| 26 | 3 | 8 | Tanja Smid | Slovenia | 2:32.26 | |
| 27 | 2 | 6 | Raminta Dvariskyte | Lithuania | 2:33.79 | |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | Evghenia Tanasienco | Moldova | 2:34.00 | NR |
| 29 | 2 | 5 | Tessa Brouwer | Netherlands | 2:34.93 | |
| 30 | 2 | 7 | Talanova Daria | Kyrgyzstan | 2:38.07 | |
| 31 | 1 | 5 | Lei On Kei | Macau | 2:41.62 | |
| 32 | 1 | 6 | Matelita Buadromo | Fiji | 2:44.01 | |
| 33 | 2 | 8 | Maria Coy | Guatemala | 2:45.32 | |
| 34 | 2 | 1 | Nibal Yamout | Lebanon | 2:45.35 | |
| 35 | 1 | 3 | Ana Maria Castellanos | Honduras | 2:45.63 | |
| 36 | 1 | 4 | Jessica Stephenson | Guyana | 2:46.28 | |
| 37 | 1 | 2 | Daniela Lindemeier | Namibia | 2:47.56 | |
| 38 | 1 | 2 | Anum Bandey | Pakistan | 2:58.85 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:20.

#### Semifinals 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Rikke Pedersen | Denmark | 2:24.80 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Martha McCabe | Canada | 2:24.86 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Rie Kaneto | Japan | 2:25.41 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Fanny Lecluyse | Belgium | 2:25.92 | |
| 5 | 5 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:25.99 | |
| 6 | 3 | Sally Foster | Australia | 2:26.43 | |
| 7 | 7 | Back Su-Yeon | South Korea | 2:26.61 | |
| 8 | 8 | Stacey Tadd | Great Britain | 2:26.73 | |

#### Semifinals 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Rebecca Soni | United States | 2:21.03 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Yuliya Yefimova | Russia | 2:23.66 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Sun Ye | China | 2:24.59 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Annamay Pierse | Canada | 2:24.73 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Nađa Higl | Serbia | 2:25.56 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Marina García Urzainqui | Spain | 2:25.79 | |
| 7 | 1 | Sara El Bekri | Morocco | 2:26.74 | |
| 8 | 8 | Chiara Boggiatto | Italy | 2:28.14 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:52.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Rebecca Soni | United States | 2:21.47 | |
| | 5 | Yuliya Yefimova | Russia | 2:22.22 | NR |
| | 7 | Martha McCabe | Canada | 2:24.81 | |
| 4 | 3 | Sun Ye | China | 2:25.09 | |
| 5 | 1 | Rie Kaneto | Japan | 2:25.36 | |
| 6 | 8 | Nađa Higl | Serbia | 2:25.93 | |
| 7 | 2 | Rikke Pedersen | Denmark | 2:26.56 | |
| 8 | 6 | Annamay Pierse | Canada | 2:27.00 | |