# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The Women's 200 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the longest of the 3 backstroke events for women at the 2005 Worlds. Preliminary and Semifinals heats were swum 29 July, with the Final heat on 30 July. The top 16 finishers from Prelims advanced to swim again in Semifinals; the top 8 swimmers in Semifinals advanced to swim a third time in the Final.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:06.62, Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary), swum 25 August 1991 in Athens, Greece
* CR: 2:07.40, Cihong He (China), swum 11 September 1994 in Rome, Italy

## Results
### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H4 L5 | Louise Ørnstedt | Denmark | 2:11.52 | q |
| 1 | H6 L4 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:11.52 | q |
| 3 | H5 L5 | Margaret Hoelzer | United States | 2:11.74 | q |
| 4 | H5 L4 | Stanislava Komarova | Russia | 2:11.84 | q |
| 5 | H6 L3 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:12.67 | q |
| 6 | H4 L4 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:12.87 | q |
| 7 | H5 L2 | Tayliah Zimmer | Australia | 2:13.38 | q |
| 8 | H5 L3 | Katy Sexton | Great Britain | 2:13.39 | q |
| 9 | H6 L2 | Hannah McLean | New Zealand | 2:13.59 | q |
| 10 | H4 L6 | Iryna Amshennikova | Ukraine | 2:13.62 | q |
| 11 | H6 L6 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:13.71 | q |
| 12 | H3 L4 | Jeri Moss | United States | 2:13.76 | q |
| 13 | H5 L6 | Annika Liebs | Germany | 2:13.78 | q |
| 14 | H4 L3 | Zhao Jing | China | 2:13.85 | q |
| 15 | H4 L7 | Chen Yanyan | China | 2:14.35 | q |
| 16 | H5 L7 | Duane Rocha | Spain | 2:14.38 | q |
| 17 | H6 L7 | Melissa Corfe | South Africa | 2:14.71 | |
| 18 | H6 L8 | Katarzyna Staszak | Poland | 2:14.75 | |
| 19 | H4 L1 | Kelly Stefanyshyn | Canada | 2:15.23 | |
| 20 | H5 L8 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:15.46 | |
| 21 | H5 L1 | Melissa Ingram | New Zealand | 2:16.48 | |
| 22 | H2 L4 | Gisela Morales | Guatemala | 2:17.17 | |
| 23 | H6 L1 | Giaan Rooney | Australia | 2:17.32 | |
| 24 | H4 L2 | Therese Svendsen | Sweden | 2:17.43 | |
| 25 | H3 L5 | Kateryna Zubkova | Ukraine | 2:17.48 | |
| 25 | H6 L5 | Alexandra Putra | France | 2:17.48 | |
| 27 | H3 L1 | Sadan Derya Erke | Turkey | 2:17.49 | |
| 28 | H3 L2 | Danit Kama | Israel | 2:17.93 | |
| 29 | H3 L8 | Anja Čarman | Slovenia | 2:18.61 | |
| 30 | H4 L8 | Yoo Jin Jung | South Korea | 2:19.57 | |
| 31 | H2 L6 | Jane Kaljonen | Finland | 2:19.67 | |
| 32 | H3 L3 | Anna Gostomelsky | Israel | 2:19.83 | |
| 33 | H3 L6 | Man-Hsu Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:20.37 | |
| 34 | H3 L7 | Lenka Jarosova | Czech Republic | 2:21.11 | |
| 35 | H2 L5 | Berit Aljand | Estonia | 2:22.27 | |
| 36 | H2 L2 | Laura Rodriguez | Dominican Republic | 2:27.78 | |
| 37 | H2 L1 | Valeria Silva | Peru | 2:28.24 | |
| 38 | H1 L6 | Imane Boulaamane | Morocco | 2:28.55 | |
| 39 | H2 L7 | Bernadette Lee | Singapore | 2:30.60 | |
| 40 | H1 L5 | Saida Iskandarova | Uzbekistan | 2:31.42 | |
| 41 | H1 L2 | Jonay Briedenhann | Namibia | 2:32.64 | |
| 42 | H1 L3 | Weng I Kuan | Macau | 2:33.05 | |
| 43 | H2 L8 | QUAH Ting Wen | Singapore | 2:33.16 | |
| 44 | H1 L1 | Sussie Pineda | Honduras | 2:41.02 | |
| - | H2 L3 | Yu Yon Kim | South Korea | DQ | |
| - | H1 L4 | Kiera Aitken | Bermuda | DNS | |
| - | H1 L7 | Mireille Hakimeh | Syria | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | S1 L4 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:09.88 |
| 2 | S1 L3 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:11.17 |
| 3 | S2 L5 | Margaret Hoelzer | USA | 2:11.32 |
| 4 | S1 L5 | Stanislava Komarova | Russia | 2:11.58 |
| 5 | S2 L4 | Louise Ørnstedt | Denmark | 2:11.59 |
| 6 | S2 L3 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:12.05 |
| 7 | S2 L7 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:12.16 |
| 8 | S1 L1 | Zhao Jing | China | 2:12.55 |
| 9 | S2 L2 | Hannah McLean | New Zealand | 2:12.57 |
| 10 | S1 L2 | Iryna Amshennikova | Ukraine | 2:12.64 |
| 11 | S2 L1 | Annika Liebs | Germany | 2:13.35 |
| 12 | S1 L6 | Katy Sexton | Great Britain | 2:13.41 |
| 13 | S1 L7 | Jeri Moss | USA | 2:13.64 |
| 14 | S2 L6 | Tayliah Zimmer | Australia | 2:14.68 |
| 15 | S2 L8 | Chen Yanyan | China | 2:14.92 |
| 16 | S1 L8 | Duane Rocha | Spain | 2:16.50 |

### Final

| Place | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| | 4 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:08.52 |
| | 3 | Margaret Hoelzer | USA | 2:09.94 |
| | 5 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan | 2:10.41 |
| 4 | 7 | Hanae Ito | Japan | 2:10.98 |
| 5 | 1 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:11.44 |
| 6 | 6 | Stanislava Komarova | Russia | 2:12.03 |
| 7 | 2 | Louise Ørnstedt | Denmark | 2:12.93 |
| 8 | 8 | Zhao Jing | China | 2:13.10 |