# Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Liu Zige (CHN) | 2:01.81 | Jinan, China | 21 October 2009 |
| Competition record | Jessicah Schipper (AUS) | 2:03.41 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 26 July at 10:17.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 6 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:07.25 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 3 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:07.50 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Mireia Belmonte | Spain | 2:07.59 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:07.72 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.73 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | An Se-hyeon | South Korea | 2:08.06 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:08.06 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 7 | Stefania Pirozzi | Italy | 2:08.84 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Hali Flickinger | United States | 2:08.84 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Dakota Luther | United States | 2:08.86 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 5 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 2:08.98 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 4 | Suzuka Hasegawa | Japan | 2:09.10 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 2:09.12 | Q, WD |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Alys Thomas | Great Britain | 2:09.13 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Hiroko Makino | Japan | 2:09.14 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:09.21 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 2 | Martina van Berkel | Switzerland | 2:09.34 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | 7 | Park Su-jin | South Korea | 2:09.44 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:09.77 | |
| 20 | 2 | 6 | Svetlana Chimrova | Russia | 2:09.86 | |
| 21 | 2 | 3 | Charlotte Atkinson | Great Britain | 2:10.68 | |
| 22 | 3 | 0 | Klaudia Naziębło | Poland | 2:11.34 | |
| 23 | 4 | 9 | Barbora Závadová | Czech Republic | 2:12.09 | NR |
| 24 | 2 | 0 | María José Mata | Mexico | 2:12.82 | |
| 25 | 2 | 9 | Anna Ntountounaki | Greece | 2:12.90 | |
| 26 | 4 | 8 | Anastasia Guzhenkova | Russia | 2:13.65 | |
| 27 | 3 | 8 | Helena Gasson | New Zealand | 2:13.71 | |
| 28 | 3 | 9 | Maj Howardsen | Denmark | 2:13.88 | |
| 29 | 2 | 8 | Isabella Paéz | Venezuela | 2:14.98 | |
| 30 | 1 | 4 | Azra Avdic | Peru | 2:15.09 | |
| 31 | 4 | 0 | Virginia Bardach | Argentina | 2:15.15 | |
| 32 | 1 | 5 | Alicia Mancilla | Guatemala | 2:20.58 | |
| 33 | 1 | 3 | Damini Gowda | India | 2:28.95 | |
| 34 | 1 | 2 | Lara Aklouk | Jordan | 2:32.35 | |
| 35 | 1 | 6 | Alania Suttie | Samoa | 2:35.11 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 18:25.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:06.63 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Suzuka Hasegawa | Japan | 2:07.01 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:07.11 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | An Se-hyeon | South Korea | 2:07.82 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Hali Flickinger | United States | 2:07.89 | |
| 6 | 1 | Hiroko Makino | Japan | 2:07.95 | |
| 7 | 8 | Martina van Berkel | Switzerland | 2:08.71 | |
| 8 | 2 | Dakota Luther | United States | 2:09.55 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:06.29 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Mireia Belmonte | Spain | 2:06.71 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:07.37 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.67 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Stefania Pirozzi | Italy | 2:08.62 | |
| 6 | 1 | Alys Thomas | Great Britain | 2:08.72 | |
| 7 | 8 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:09.31 | |
| 8 | 7 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 2:10.58 | |

### Final

The final was held on 27 July at 18:34.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Mireia Belmonte | Spain | 2:05.26 | |
| | 4 | Franziska Hentke | Germany | 2:05.39 | |
| | 7 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 2:06.02 | |
| 4 | 8 | An Se-hyeon | South Korea | 2:06.67 | NR |
| 5 | 2 | Zhang Yufei | China | 2:07.06 | |
| 6 | 6 | Suzuka Hasegawa | Japan | 2:07.43 | |
| 7 | 1 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 2:07.58 | |
| 8 | 5 | Zhou Yilin | China | 2:07.67 | |