Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The heats for the women's 200 m breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July and the final took place in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nađa Higl Serbia	Annamay Pierse Canada	Mirna Jukić Austria

Records[]

World Record (WR)
2:20.22	Rebecca Soni	Beijing	15 August 2008
Championship Record (CR)
2:21.72	Leisel Jones	Montreal	29 July 2005

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Annamay Pierse	Canada	2:21.68	6	4	CR
2	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:22.09	7	4
3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:22.10	7	5	ER
4	Nađa Higl	Serbia	2:23.19	4	7
5		Japan	2:23.22	7	3
6	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.50	5	4
6	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:23.50	5	5
8	Keri Hehn	United States	2:23.60	7	6
9	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	2:24.20	5	3
10	Rikke Møller-Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.46	5	9	NR
11	Jeong Darae	South Korea	2:25.00	6	7
12	Joline Höstman	Sweden	2:25.15	7	2	NR
13	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	2:25.57	7	1
14	Sally Foster	Australia	2:26.07	7	7
15	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:26.18	6	3
16	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:26.45	6	2
17		Spain	2:26.69	5	2
18	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	2:26.74	7	8
19	Chen Huijia	China	2:26.82	3	4
20	Sun Ye	China	2:27.08	5	6
21	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	2:27.32	5	7
22	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	2:27.55	6	5
23	Jessica Pengelly	South Africa	2:27.64	4	4
24	Inna Kapishina	Belarus	2:27.89	7	0
25	Urte Kazakeviciute	Lithuania	2:28.13	2	3	NR
26	Petra Chocova	Czech Republic	2:28.37	4	9
27	Angeliki Exarchou	Greece	2:28.62	6	0
28	Elise Matthysen	Belgium	2:29.05	5	8
29	Raminta Dvariskyte	Lithuania	2:29.40	3	6
30	Diana Gomes	Portugal	2:29.80	4	1
31		Israel	2:30.17	3	1	NR
32		Switzerland	2:30.27	6	8
33		Poland	2:30.59	4	3
34	Lia Dekker	Netherlands	2:31.08	6	9
35	Sarra Lajnef	Tunisia	2:31.12	4	2
36		South Korea	2:31.20	6	1
37	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:31.39	3	2	NR
38	Yekaterina Sadovnik	Kazakhstan	2:31.52	3	8
39	Stacey Tadd	Great Britain	2:32.01	4	0
40	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:32.09	7	9
41	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:32.93	3	5
42	Katheryn Meaklim	South Africa	2:33.10	4	5
43		Israel	2:33.95	4	8
44	Tatiane Sakemi	Brazil	2:34.11	4	6
45	Valentina Artemyeva	Russia	2:34.34	6	1
46	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	2:37.43	3	7
47		Venezuela	2:37.65	3	0
48		Zimbabwe	2:37.77	2	1	NR
49		Namibia	2:39.71	2	2	NR
50	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	2:43.44	2	5
51	Roanne Ho	Singapore	2:43.72	2	0
52		Guatemala	2:44.09	2	6
53		Singapore	2:44.33	3	9
54		Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:45.00	2	7
55	Chen I-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	2:45.30	2	4
56		Dominican Republic	2:45.57	2	9	NR
57		Macau	2:51.88	2	8
58	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:54.35	1	5
59		India	3:00.51	1	3
60		Zambia	3:02.16	1	6
61		Pakistan	3:16.33	1	7
62		Pakistan	3:31.32	1	1
–		Albania	DNS	1	2
–	Dilara Buse Gunaydin	Turkey	DNS	3	3
–	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	DNS	5	1
–		Madagascar	DSQ	1	4
–	Carolina Mussi	Brazil	DSQ	5	0

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Annamay Pierse	Canada	2:20.12	2	4	WR
2	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:20.93	1	4
3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:22.13	2	5
4	Joline Höstman	Sweden	2:22.24	1	7	NR
5	Nađa Higl	Serbia	2:22.28	1	5
6	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:22.75	2	6
7		Japan	2:22.83	2	3
8	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:22.92	1	3
9	Keri Hehn	United States	2:23.20	1	6
10	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	2:23.32	2	2	NR
11		Denmark	2:23.34	1	2	NR
12	Jeong Darae	South Korea	2:25.00	2	7
13	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	2:25.36	2	1
14	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:26.39	2	8
15	Sally Foster	Australia	2:27.03	1	1
16	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:28.75	1	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Nađa Higl	Serbia	2:21.62	2	ER
	Annamay Pierse	Canada	2:21.84	4
	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:21.97	3	NR
4	Rebecca Soni	USA	2:22.15	5
5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.03	8
6		Japan	2:23.12	1
7	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:23.36	7
8	Joline Höstman	Sweden	2:23.62	6