# Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The heats for the women's 200 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 28 July and the final took place in the evening session of 29 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

## Records

| World record | Federica Pellegrini (ITA) | 1:54.47 | Riccione, Italy | 8 March 2009 |
| Championship record | Laure Manaudou (FRA) | 1:55.52 | Melbourne, Australia | 28 March 2007 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 28 July | Semifinal 1 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:53.67 | WR |
| 29 July | Final | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:52.98 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 1:55.98 | 9 | 5 | |
| 2 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:56.75 | 10 | 5 | |
| 3 | Joanne Jackson | Great Britain | 1:56.81 | 8 | 5 | |
| 4 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:56.84 | 9 | 2 | NR |
| 5 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:56.99 | 9 | 4 | |
| 6 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:57.22 | 10 | 4 | |
| 7 | Coralie Balmy | France | 1:57.30 | 9 | 3 | |
| 8 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 1:57.32 | 8 | 2 | |
| 9 | Caitlin McClatchey | Great Britain | 1:57.44 | 9 | 6 | |
| 10 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:57.63 | 8 | 7 | |
| 11 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:57.64 | 10 | 3 | |
| 12 | Yang Yu | China | 1:57.83 | 8 | 6 | |
| 13 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:57.91 | 8 | 4 | |
| 14 | Stephanie Rice | Australia | 1:58.06 | 8 | 3 | |
| 15 | Ellen Fullerton | Australia | 1:58.10 | 9 | 7 | |
| 16 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 1:58.14 | 9 | 1 | NR |
| 17 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 1:58.27 | 10 | 7 | |
| 18 | Heather MacLean | Canada | 1:58.42 | 10 | 2 | |
| 19 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:58.58 | 8 | 8 | |
| 20 | Alexandra Gabor | Canada | 1:58.63 | 8 | 1 | |
| 21 | Jördis Steinegger | Austria | 1:59.11 | 10 | 8 | NR |
| 22 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 1:59.54 | 10 | 1 | |
| 23 | Erica Buratto | Italy | 2:00.08 | 9 | 0 | |
| 24 | Katarina Filova | Slovakia | 2:00.11 | 6 | 3 | |
| 25 | Quah Ting Wen | Singapore | 2:00.21 | 8 | 0 | |
| 26 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 2:00.60 | 8 | 9 | |
| 27 | Yang Chin-Kuei | Chinese Taipei | 2:01.00 | 7 | 3 | |
| 28 | Lee Jae Young | South Korea | 2:01.17 | 7 | 5 | |
| 29 | Natthanan Junkrajang | Thailand | 2:01.28 | 7 | 8 | |
| 30 | Anna Stylianou | Cyprus | 2:01.33 | 9 | 9 | |
| 31 | Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli | Argentina | 2:01.35 | 7 | 7 | |
| 32 | Verena Klocker | Austria | 2:01.58 | 7 | 6 | |
| 33 | Katarzyna Wilk | Poland | 2:01.72 | 10 | 9 | |
| 34 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 2:01.98 | 7 | 2 | |
| 35 | Heysi Villareal | Cuba | 2:02.17 | 6 | 6 | |
| 36 | Yanel Pinto | Venezuela | 2:02.32 | 5 | 7 | NR |
| 37 | Clare Dawson | Ireland | 2:02.46 | 7 | 0 | |
| 38 | Niamh O'Sullivan | Ireland | 2:02.72 | 7 | 1 | |
| 39 | Juanita Barreto Barreto | Colombia | 2:02.97 | 5 | 9 | NR |
| 40 | Sascha Van den Branden | Belgium | 2:03.01 | 7 | 9 | |
| 41 | Elina Partoka | Estonia | 2:03.28 | 7 | 4 | |
| 42 | Christine Mailliet | Luxembourg | 2:03.59 | 6 | 9 | |
| 43 | Katarina Listopadova | Slovakia | 2:03.62 | 5 | 4 | |
| 44 | Liliana Ibanez | Mexico | 2:03.73 | 6 | 7 | NR |
| 45 | Amanda Lim | Singapore | 2:03.89 | 6 | 4 | |
| 46 | Pamela Benitez | El Salvador | 2:03.96 | 6 | 1 | |
| 47 | Erica Cirila Totten | Philippines | 2:04.26 | 5 | 6 | |
| 48 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 2:04.36 | 1 | 9 | |
| 49 | Nicole Marmol | Ecuador | 2:04.51 | 5 | 5 | |
| 50 | Annika Saarnak | Estonia | 2:05.15 | 5 | 1 | |
| 51 | Yennifer Marquez | Venezuela | 2:05.27 | 5 | 3 | |
| 52 | Jung Ha-eun | South Korea | 2:05.29 | 5 | 2 | |
| 53 | Kristina Bernice Lennox | Puerto Rico | 2:05.88 | 4 | 2 | NR |
| 54 | Maroua Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 2:06.23 | 6 | 8 | |
| 55 | Kimberley Eeson | Zimbabwe | 2:06.64 | 6 | 0 | |
| 56 | Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | Papua New Guinea | 2:07.37 | 3 | 3 | NR |
| 57 | Ranohon Amanova | Uzbekistan | 2:07.45 | 4 | 4 | |
| 58 | Nicole Horn | Zimbabwe | 2:07.52 | 4 | 7 | |
| 59 | Khoo Cai Lin | Malaysia | 2:07.53 | 6 | 2 | |
| 60 | Ting Sheng-Yo | Chinese Taipei | 2:08.31 | 5 | 8 | |
| 61 | Aiste Dobrovolskaite | Lithuania | 2:08.47 | 5 | 0 | |
| 62 | Raffaella Rodoni Palma | Chile | 2:09.20 | 4 | 5 | |
| 63 | Andrea Cedron | Peru | 2:09.54 | 4 | 2 | |
| 64 | Sara Abdullahu | Albania | 2:10.04 | 3 | 7 | |
| 65 | Chinyere Pigot | Suriname | 2:10.14 | 3 | 0 | |
| 66 | Shannon Austin | Seychelles | 2:11.34 | 2 | 5 | |
| 67 | Daniela Miyahara Coello | Peru | 2:11.47 | 4 | 6 | |
| 68 | Karen Milenka Torrez Guzman | Bolivia | 2:11.60 | 2 | 4 | |
| 69 | Fong Man Wai | Macau | 2:12.52 | 4 | 0 | |
| 70 | Talasha Prabhu | India | 2:12.57 | 2 | 1 | |
| 71 | Nibal Yamout | Lebanon | 2:12.68 | 4 | 9 | |
| 72 | Miriam Hatamleh | Jordan | 2:13.64 | 3 | 4 | |
| 73 | Talisa Pace | Malta | 2:14.08 | 3 | 6 | |
| 74 | Diana Al Zamel | Syria | 2:15.27 | 3 | 8 | |
| 75 | Vo Thi Thanh Vy | Vietnam | 2:15.71 | 4 | 8 | |
| 76 | Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra | Honduras | 2:15.76 | 2 | 7 | |
| 77 | Noelyn Faussane | French Polynesia | 2:15.87 | 2 | 2 | |
| 78 | Karen Vilorio | Honduras | 2:16.39 | 2 | 9 | |
| 79 | Ayesha Noel | Grenada | 2:16.92 | 2 | 3 | |
| 80 | Pina Ercolano | Kenya | 2:18.12 | 1 | 5 | |
| 81 | Nicole Huerta | Dominican Republic | 2:18.24 | 2 | 0 | |
| 82 | Tin Hon Ko Adeline Mei-Li | Mauritius | 2:18.83 | 2 | 8 | |
| 83 | Che Lok In | Macau | 2:19.04 | 3 | 9 | |
| 84 | Sylvia Brunlehner | Kenya | 2:19.20 | 1 | 3 | |
| 85 | Ashley Bransford | Aruba | 2:19.31 | 3 | 5 | |
| 86 | Tieri Erasito | Fiji | 2:23.93 | 1 | 6 | |
| 87 | Danielle Bernadine Findlay | Zambia | 2:24.45 | 1 | 2 | |
| 88 | Cheyenne Rova | Fiji | 2:27.63 | 1 | 7 | |
| 89 | Mahnoor Maqsood | Pakistan | 2:32.58 | 1 | 1 | |
| 90 | Maria Gibbons | Palau | 2:32.72 | 1 | 0 | |
| 91 | Osisang Chilton | Palau | 2:33.88 | 1 | 8 | |
| – | Rovena Marku | Albania | DNS | 1 | 4 | |
| – | Jonay Briedenhann | Namibia | DNS | 2 | 6 | |
| – | Dina Hegazy | Egypt | DNS | 6 | 5 | |
| – | Lotte Friis | Denmark | DNS | 9 | 8 | |
| – | Hanae Ito | Japan | DNS | 10 | 0 | |
| – | Camelia Potec | Romania | DNS | 10 | 6 | |
| – | Melinda Sue Micallef | Malta | DSQ | 3 | 2 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:53.67 | 1 | 3 | WR |
| 2 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 1:55.29 | 2 | 4 | AM |
| 3 | Joanne Jackson | Great Britain | 1:55.54 | 2 | 5 | NR |
| 4 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:56.11 | 1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Yang Yu | China | 1:56.19 | 1 | 7 | |
| 6 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:56.47 | 1 | 5 | NR |
| 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:56.51 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:56.58 | 2 | 1 | |
| 9 | Caitlin McClatchey | Great Britain | 1:56.62 | 2 | 2 | |
| 10 | Coralie Balmy | France | 1:56.79 | 2 | 6 | |
| 11 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:56.86 | 2 | 7 | |
| 12 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 1:57.00 | 1 | 6 | |
| 13 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 1:57.04 | 2 | 3 | |
| 14 | Ellen Fullerton | Australia | 1:57.43 | 2 | 8 | |
| 15 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 1:57.96 | 1 | 8 | NR |
| 16 | Stephanie Rice | Australia | 1:58.33 | 1 | 1 | |

### Final

| Place | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:52.98 | WR |
| | 6 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:54.96 | AM |
| | 5 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 1:55.64 | |
| 4 | 3 | Joanne Jackson | Great Britain | 1:55.88 | |
| 5 | 2 | Yang Yu | China | 1:56.28 | |
| 6 | 8 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:56.47 | |
| 7 | 7 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:56.70 | |
| 8 | 1 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:57.50 | |