Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The Women's 200m Freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 27 March (prelims & semifinals) and 28 March (finals) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.

The World Record in the event was lowered twice during the competition, first by Italy's Federica Pellegrini in semifinals, and then by France's Laure Manaudou in finals.

The existing records at the start of the competition were:

• World Record (WR): 1:56.64, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), 3 August 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
• Championship Record (CR): 1:56.78, Franziska van Almsick (Germany), Rome 1994 (Sep.6.1994).

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1st	Laure Manaudou	France	1:55.52	WR
2nd	Annika Lurz	Germany	1:55.68	NR
3rd	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.97
4th	Katie Hoff	USA	1:57.09	AM
5th	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:57.90
6th	Dana Vollmer	USA	1:58.30
7th	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	1:59.28
8th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:01.53

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.47	Q WR
2	Annika Lurz	Germany	1:56.67	Q
3	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	1:57.19	Q
4	Katie Hoff	USA	1:57.29	Q AM
5	Laure Manaudou	France	1:57.30	Q
6	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:57.78	Q, NR
7	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	1:57.86	Q
8	Dana Vollmer	USA	1:58.71	Q
9	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	1:59.04
10	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:59.12
11	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	1:59.14
12	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:59.25
13	Ida Marko-Varga	Sweden	1:59.56
14	Meike Freitag	Germany	1:59.60
15	Maki Mita	Japan	2:00.29
16	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	2:01.35

Prelims[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Laure Manaudou	France	1:57.66	Q
2	Katie Hoff	USA	1:58.17	Q
3	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:58.24	Q
4	Dana Vollmer	USA	1:58.26	Q
5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	1:58.57	Q
6	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	1:58.80	Q
7	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:58.83	Q
8	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	1:59.14	Q
9	Meike Freitag	Germany	1:59.24	Q
10	Bronte Barratt	Australia	1:59.26	Q
11	Annika Lurz	Germany	1:59.42	Q
12	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	1:59.59	Q
13	Maki Mita	Japan	1:59.72	Q
14	Ida Marko-Varga	Sweden	1:59.74	Q
15	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	1:59.91	Q
16	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	1:59.94	Q
17	Camelia Potec	Romania	2:00.05
18	Yang Yu	China	2:00.10
19	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:00.21
20	Pang Jiaying	China	2:00.71
21	Aurore Mongel	France	2:01.23
22		Japan	2:01.25
23	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	2:01.32
24	Flavia Zoccari	Italy	2:01.49
25	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:02.00
26	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	2:02.04
	Maria Fuster Martinez	Spain
28	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	2:02.17
29	Linda Bank	Netherlands	2:02.35
30		Romania	2:02.60
31	Keo Ra Lee	South Korea	2:02.61
32	Chin Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	2:02.68
33	Micha Jensen	Denmark	2:02.75
34	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	2:02.81
35	Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid	Spain	2:02.84
36	Wendy Trott	South Africa	2:03.09
37	Geneviève Saumur	Canada	2:03.24
38		Belgium	2:03.62
39	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	2:03.80
40	Erin Volcán	Venezuela	2:04.00
41	Elina Partoka	Estonia	2:04.02
42	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	2:04.24
43		Estonia	2:04.39
44	Jana Myskova	Czech Republic	2:04.61
45		South Korea	2:04.74
46	Hang Yu Sze	Hong Kong	2:04.95
47	Heysi Villarreal Navarro	Cuba	2:05.68
48	Maroua Mathlouthi	Tunisia	2:05.69
49	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	2:05.94
50	Pin Chieh Nieh	Chinese Taipei	2:06.29
51		Thailand	2:06.30
52	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	2:06.47
53	Ting Wen Quah	Singapore	2:06.69
54		Philippines	2:06.76
55	Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada	El Salvador	2:06.77
56		Malaysia	2:07.16
57	Mylene Ong	Singapore	2:07.29
58		Zimbabwe	2:07.36
59		Tunisia	2:07.93
60	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn	Thailand	2:08.56
61		Chile	2:08.97
62		Peru	2:09.66
63		Ecuador	2:09.92
64		Philippines	2:10.34
65		Ecuador	2:10.46
66		Faroe Islands	2:10.81
67	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	2:10.87
68		Peru	2:11.05
69		Malta	2:11.22
70		Indonesia	2:11.55
71		Grenada	2:12.10
72	Natasha Moodie	Jamaica	2:12.26
73		Faroe Islands	2:12.45
74	Matana Wellman	Zambia	2:12.64
75	Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra	Honduras	2:12.73
76		Namibia	2:12.93
77		Morocco	2:13.44
78	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	2:13.50
79	Cai Lin Khoo	Malaysia	2:13.63
80		Costa Rica	2:13.64
81		Malta	2:15.08
82		Namibia	2:15.47
83		India	2:16.22
84	Rachel Ah Koy	Fiji	2:17.31
85		Costa Rica	2:17.56
86		Seychelles	2:17.60
87		Papua New Guinea	2:18.20
88	Ngozi Monu	Nigeria	2:19.45
89		Jordan	2:19.73
90	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname	2:20.28
91	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoprimamama	Madagascar	2:20.40
92		India	2:20.65
93		Macau	2:20.73
94	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Uzbekistan	2:22.11
95		Fiji	2:23.07
96		Mauritius	2:23.36
97		Northern Mariana Islands	2:23.42
98		Macedonia	2:23.86
99		Mauritius	2:24.61
100		Madagascar	2:24.64
101	Binta Zahra Diop	Senegal	2:26.26
102		Kenya	2:27.59
103		Zambia	2:28.00
104		Maldives	2:33.98
105	Amber Sikosang Yobech	Palau	2:38.14
106		Palau	2:50.04
--	Katerina Izmailova	Tajikistan	DNS
--		Nigeria	DNS
--		Jordan	DQ

References[]

• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 200m free--Prelims from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-02.
• Worlds results: Women's 200m free--Semifinals from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-02.
• 2007 Worlds results: Women's 200m free--Finals from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 World Championships); Retrieved 2009-07-02.