# Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats and semifinals took place 25 July, with the final being held on 26 July.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
| World record | Wu Yanyan (CHN) | 2:09.72 | Shanghai, China | 17 October 1997 |
| World record | Wu Yanyan (CHN) | 2:10.88 | Perth, Australia | 16 January 1998 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:14.07 | Q |
| 2 | Martha Bowen | United States | 2:14.23 | Q |
| 3 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:14.88 | Q |
| 4 | Nicole Hetzer | Germany | 2:15.07 | Q, WD |
| 4 | Lori Munz | Australia | 2:15.07 | Q |
| 6 | Cristina Teuscher | United States | 2:15.23 | Q |
| 7 | Tomoko Hagiwara | Japan | 2:15.47 | Q |
| 8 | Jennifer Reilly | Australia | 2:16.15 | Q |
| 9 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 2:16.16 | Q |
| 10 | Oxana Verevka | Russia | 2:16.70 | Q |
| 11 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:16.79 | Q |
| 12 | Sara Nordenstam | Sweden | 2:17.23 | Q |
| 13 | Qi Hui | China | 2:18.49 | Q |
| 14 | Miriana Bosevska | North Macedonia | 2:18.56 | Q |
| 15 | Ayane Sato | Japan | 2:18.83 | Q |
| 16 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:19.20 | Q |
| 17 | Tatiana Rouba | Spain | 2:19.39 | WD |
| 17 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 2:19.39 | Q |
| 19 | Alenka Kejžar | Slovenia | 2:19.47 | |
| 20 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:19.99 | |
| 21 | Hana Netrefová | Czech Republic | 2:20.06 | |
| 22 | Helen Nolfolk | New Zealand | 2:21.03 | |
| 23 | Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir | Iceland | 2:22.66 | |
| 24 | Yi Ting Siow | Malaysia | 2:23.02 | |
| 25 | Wai Yen Sia | Malaysia | 2:24.86 | |
| 26 | Kuan Chia-Hsien | Chinese Taipei | 2:28.07 | |
| 27 | Yang Chin-Kuei | Chinese Taipei | 2:29.53 | |
| 28 | Maria Wong | Peru | 2:29.67 | |
| 29 | Xenavee Pangelinan | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:29.84 | |
| 30 | Ayeisha Collymore | Trinidad and Tobago | 2:30.35 | |
| 31 | Khadisa Ciss | Senegal | 2:31.23 | |
| 32 | Shun Kwan Andrea Chum | Macau | 2:35.64 | |
| 33 | Perla Martinez | Honduras | 2:38.26 | |
| 34 | Weng Lam Cheong | Macau | 2:42.07 | |
| 35 | Lasm Meledje | Ivory Coast | 2:45.10 | |
| – | Jennifer Fratesi | Canada | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:13.07 | Q |
| 2 | Martha Bowen | United States | 2:13.55 | Q |
| 3 | Oxana Verevka | Russia | 2:13.56 | Q |
| 4 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:14.11 | Q |
| 5 | Tomoko Hagiwara | Japan | 2:14.22 | Q |
| 6 | Cristina Teuscher | United States | 2:14.37 | Q |
| 7 | Qi Hui | China | 2:14.40 | Q |
| 8 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:14.42 | Q |
| 9 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 2:15.40 | |
| 10 | Lori Munz | Australia | 2:16.10 | |
| 11 | Jennifer Reilly | Australia | 2:16.32 | |
| 12 | Sara Nordenstam | Sweden | 2:17.17 | |
| 13 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 2:17.78 | |
| 14 | Ayane Sato | Japan | 2:18.56 | |
| 15 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:19.11 | |
| 16 | Miriana Bosevska | North Macedonia | 2:19.22 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Martha Bowen | United States | 2:11.93 |
| | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:12.30 |
| | Qi Hui | China | 2:12.46 |
| 4 | Oxana Verevka | Russia | 2:13.62 |
| 5 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:13.78 |
| 6 | Cristina Teuscher | United States | 2:14.82 |
| 7 | Tomoko Hagiwara | Japan | 2:14.93 |
| 8 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:15.15 |