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

Women's 200 Breaststroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	28 July (prelims, semifinals) 29 July (final)
Competitors	42 from 32 nations
Winning time	2 minutes 21.72 seconds
Medalists
Leisel Jones    Australia   Anne Poleska    Germany   Mirna Jukić    Austria
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The Women's 200 Breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 28–29 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 28 July, with the Prelims^[1] during the morning session and the Semifinals^[2] during the evening session. The Final ^[3] swam in the evening session on 29 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:22.44, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 12 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA
• CR: 2:22.99, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results[]

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5	Anne Poleska		2:27.31	q
2	H6 L4	Leisel Jones		2:27.63	q
3	H5 L3	Megumi Taneda		2:28.06	q
4	H6 L2			2:28.45	q
5	H5 L4	Mirna Jukić		2:28.47	q
6	H6 L5	Chiara Boggiatto		2:28.75	q
7	H4 L2	Suzaan van Biljon		2:29.02	q
8	H4 L3			2:29.07	q
9	H5 L7			2:29.80	q
10	H5 L5	Kristen Caverly		2:30.03	q
11	H5 L6			2:30.52	q
12	H6 L7	Diana Gomes		2:30.59	q
13	H6 L8	Christin Petelski		2:30.75	q
14	H5 L1			2:30.82	q
15	H6 L6	Sara Pérez		2:30.93	q
16	H4 L4	Tara Kirk		2:31.48	q
17	H4 L1	Kathleen Stoody		2:32.18
18	H4 L8	Yi Ting Siow		2:32.47
19	H5 L8			2:32.48
20	H6 L3	Kirsty Balfour		2:32.93
21	H4 L6	Elena Bogomazova		2:33.41
22	H3 L4	Ina Kapishina		2:33.80
23	H6 L1			2:33.93
24	H4 L7	Marina Kuč		2:34.04
25	H3 L6			2:34.89
26	H3 L7			2:34.94
27	H3 L2	Eeva Saarinen		2:35.60
28	H3 L8			2:35.75
29	H2 L4	Petra Chocova		2:35.98
30	H5 L2	Angeliki Exarchou		2:36.18
31	H2 L1	Annabelle Carey		2:36.72
32	H2 L5			2:38.54
33	H3 L1			2:41.11
34	H2 L7	Nicolette Teo		2:42.71
35	H2 L3			2:43.61
36	H2 L6	Alia Atkinson		2:44.17
37	H2 L2			2:44.22
38	H1 L4			2:44.80
39	H1 L5			2:52.20
40	H1 L3	Mayumi Raheem		2:56.09
--	--	Julie Hjorth-Hansen		DNS
--	--	Smiljana Marinović		DNS

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:25.30	q
2	S2 L4	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:26.22	q
3	S2 L3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:26.85	q
4	S1 L8	Tara Kirk	USA	2:27.31	q
5	S2 L5	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:27.70	q
6	S1 L5		Poland	2:27.96	q
7	S2 L6	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:28.09	q
8	S1 L2	Kristen Caverly	USA	2:28.82	q
9	S1 L3	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	2:28.87
10	S2 L2		South Africa	2:28.90
11	S2 L8	Sara Pérez	Spain	2:29.56
12	S2 L7		Japan	2:29.68
13	S1 L6		Russia	2:30.23
14	S1 L7	Diana Gomes	Portugal	2:30.29
15	S1 L1		South Korea	2:30.33
16	S2 L1	Christin Petelski	Canada	2:31.18

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:21.72	WR
2	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:25.84
3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:27.11
4	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:27.65
5		Poland	2:27.85
6	Tara Kirk	USA	2:28.60
6	Kristen Caverly	USA	2:28.60
8	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:29.44

References[]