# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 20 December 2021.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 2:01.86 | Doha, Qatar | 6 December 2014 |
| Competition record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 2:01.86 | Doha, Qatar | 6 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started at 09:37.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | Kate Douglass | United States | 2:04.24 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Yu Yiting | China | 2:06.48 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 2:06.66 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Bailey Andison | Canada | 2:07.18 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Ilaria Cusinato | Italy | 2:07.70 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 2:08.16 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Maria Ugolkova | Switzerland | 2:08.30 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 7 | Kim Seo-yeong | South Korea | 2:08.60 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 8 | Ellen Walshe | Ireland | 2:08.69 | NR |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 2:08.74 | |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | Katie Shanahan | Great Britain | 2:09.02 | |
| 12 | 2 | 5 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 2:09.15 | |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Irina Shvaeva | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:09.35 | |
| 14 | 4 | 9 | Kristen Romano | Puerto Rico | 2:09.72 | NR |
| 15 | 4 | 1 | Lena Kreundl | Austria | 2:09.76 | |
| 16 | 4 | 6 | Kristýna Horská | Czech Republic | 2:10.16 | |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | Anastasiia Sorokina | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:11.35 | |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Catalina Corró | Spain | 2:11.60 | |
| 19 | 2 | 7 | Nathalia Almeida | Brazil | 2:11.74 | |
| 20 | 1 | 6 | Anja Crevar | Serbia | 2:12.04 | |
| 21 | 4 | 0 | Diana Petkova | Bulgaria | 2:12.59 | NR |
| 22 | 3 | 1 | Chloe Cheng | Hong Kong | 2:12.70 | |
| 23 | 2 | 9 | Ieva Maļuka | Latvia | 2:13.56 | |
| 24 | 3 | 9 | Jinjutha Pholjamjumrus | Thailand | 2:13.91 | |
| 25 | 1 | 4 | Alexandra Dobrin | Romania | 2:14.34 | |
| 25 | 1 | 7 | Nicole Frank | Uruguay | 2:14.34 | NR |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | Alondra Ortíz | Costa Rica | 2:15.00 | |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Florencia Perotti | Argentina | 2:16.84 | |
| 29 | 1 | 5 | Iman Avdić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:17.07 | |
| 30 | 3 | 8 | Maria Romanjuk | Estonia | 2:17.08 | |
| 31 | 1 | 2 | Laura Melo | Colombia | 2:18.68 | NR |
| | 1 | 3 | McKenna DeBever | Peru | DNS | |
| | 1 | 8 | Georgia Damasioti | Greece | DNS | |
| | 2 | 0 | Quah Jing Wen | Singapore | DNS | |
| | 2 | 1 | Nikoleta Trníková | Slovakia | DNS | |
| | 2 | 3 | Costanza Cocconcelli | Italy | DNS | |
| | 2 | 4 | Anastasia Gorbenko | Israel | DNS | |
| | 3 | 6 | Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş | Turkey | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:07.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 2:04.29 | |
| | 5 | Yu Yiting | China | 2:04.48 | NR, WJ |
| | 4 | Kate Douglass | United States | 2:04.68 | |
| 4 | 7 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 2:06.02 | |
| 5 | 6 | Bailey Andison | Canada | 2:06.13 | |
| 6 | 2 | Ilaria Cusinato | Italy | 2:06.92 | |
| 7 | 1 | Maria Ugolkova | Switzerland | 2:07.26 | |
| 8 | 8 | Kim Seo-yeong | South Korea | 2:09.94 | |