Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	56 from 48 nations
Winning time	1:51.38
Medalists
Ariarne Titmus    Australia   Mallory Comerford    United States   Femke Heemskerk    Netherlands

2018 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.^[1]

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.^[2]

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
	6	5	Yang Junxuan	China
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
	3	5	Jasmine Alkhaldi	Philippines
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.^[3]

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

References