# 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:50.43 | Eindhoven | 12 August 2017 |
| Championship record | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:50.78 | Doha | 7 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started at 09:59.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 1 | Mallory Comerford | United States | 1:52.52 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Ariarne Titmus | Australia | 1:52.66 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Veronika Andrusenko | Russia | 1:54.11 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:54.16 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 1:54.22 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:54.46 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Wang Jianjiahe | China | 1:54.63 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Barbora Seemanová | Czech Republic | 1:54.82 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Manuella Lyrio | Brazil | 1:54.87 | |
| 9 | 6 | 5 | Yang Junxuan | China | 1:54.87 | |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Larissa Oliveira | Brazil | 1:54.88 | |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Chihiro Igarashi | Japan | 1:55.21 | |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Annika Bruhn | Germany | 1:55.31 | |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Anastasia Guzhenkova | Russia | 1:55.44 | |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Leah Smith | United States | 1:55.52 | |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Tomomi Aoki | Japan | 1:55.60 | |
| 17 | 4 | 6 | Carla Buchanan | Australia | 1:55.64 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Katja Fain | Slovenia | 1:56.71 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Erica Musso | Italy | 1:56.85 | |
| 20 | 6 | 7 | Reva Foos | Germany | 1:56.91 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Elisbet Gámez Matos | Cuba | 1:58.37 | |
| 22 | 6 | 1 | Marlene Kahler | Austria | 1:58.65 | |
| 23 | 6 | 0 | Diana Durães | Portugal | 1:59.30 | |
| 24 | 6 | 8 | Boglárka Kapás | Hungary | 1:59.41 | |
| 25 | 6 | 9 | Laura Benková | Slovakia | 1:59.87 | |
| 26 | 5 | 0 | Paige Flynn | New Zealand | 1:59.97 | |
| 27 | 5 | 9 | Natthanan Junkrajang | Thailand | 2:00.30 | |
| 28 | 4 | 7 | Ho Nam Wai | Hong Kong | 2:00.49 | |
| 29 | 4 | 9 | Ieva Maluka | Latvia | 2:01.01 | |
| 30 | 3 | 3 | Ines Marin | Chile | 2:01.16 | |
| 31 | 3 | 1 | Rachel Tseng | Singapore | 2:01.31 | |
| 31 | 3 | 5 | Jasmine Alkhaldi | Philippines | 2:01.31 | |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | McKenna DeBever | Peru | 2:01.50 | |
| 34 | 5 | 8 | Selen Özbilen | Turkey | 2:01.67 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Lamija Medošević | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:03.03 | |
| 36 | 3 | 2 | Shivani | India | 2:03.70 | |
| 37 | 1 | 7 | Enkhkhuslen Batbayar | Mongolia | 2:04.84 | NR |
| 38 | 3 | 0 | Elizaveta Rogozhnikova | Kyrgyzstan | 2:05.41 | NR |
| 39 | 3 | 8 | Nicole Rautemberg | Paraguay | 2:05.47 | |
| 40 | 3 | 6 | Gabriela Santis | Guatemala | 2:05.76 | |
| 41 | 3 | 9 | Ani Poghosyan | Armenia | 2:06.75 | NR |
| 42 | 2 | 9 | Mya Azzopardi | Malta | 2:06.77 | |
| 43 | 2 | 7 | Nadia Tudo Cubells | Andorra | 2:07.63 | |
| 44 | 1 | 3 | Karla Abarca | Nicaragua | 2:09.14 | |
| 45 | 2 | 5 | Leedia Alsafadi | Jordan | 2:11.17 | |
| 46 | 2 | 2 | Lorna Doorman | Zimbabwe | 2:12.83 | |
| 47 | 2 | 4 | Tinatin Kevlishvili | Georgia | 2:13.74 | |
| 48 | 2 | 3 | Lidia Boguslawska | United States Virgin Islands | 2:13.89 | |
| 49 | 1 | 6 | Inana Suleiman | Syria | 2:14.43 | |
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Thimali Bandera | Sri Lanka | 2:14.83 | |
| 51 | 2 | 8 | Bianca Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 2:15.17 | |
| 52 | 1 | 5 | Araoluwa Oyetunji | Nigeria | 2:16.23 | |
| 53 | 2 | 6 | Eleonora Singsombath | Laos | 2:20.13 | NR |
| 54 | 1 | 2 | Charissa Panuve | Tonga | 2:27.08 | |
| 55 | 2 | 1 | Jin Ju Thompson | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:27.89 | |
| 56 | 2 | 0 | Amanda Poppe | Guam | 2:36.63 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Ariarne Titmus | Australia | 1:51.38 | OC |
| | 4 | Mallory Comerford | United States | 1:51.81 | NR |
| | 6 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 1:52.36 | |
| 4 | 7 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:53.18 | |
| 5 | 1 | Wang Jianjiahe | China | 1:53.23 | |
| 6 | 2 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 1:53.83 | |
| 7 | 3 | Veronika Andrusenko | Russia | 1:54.26 | |
| 8 | 8 | Barbora Seemanová | Czech Republic | 1:54.82 | |