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

The women's 200 m butterfly at the 2009 World Championships took place on 29 July (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 30 July (finals) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jessicah Schipper Australia	Liu Zige China	Katinka Hosszú Hungary

Records[]

The existing records at the start of the event were:

World record
2:04.18	Liu Zige	Beijing	14 August 2008
Championship record
2:05.61	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Montreal	28 July 2005

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Mary DeScenza	United States	2:04.14	4	3	WR
2	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	2:05.50	4	4
3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:06.21	6	6	NR
4	Samantha Hamill	Australia	2:06.32	4	6
5	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:06.45	5	1	NR
6	Aurore Mongel	France	2:06.66	5	5
7	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:06.67	5	2	NR
8	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:07.01	5	4
9		Japan	2:07.13	5	6
10	Ellen Gandy	Great Britain	2:07.33	6	4
11	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2:07.34	6	3
12	Liu Zige	China	2:07.55	5	3
13		Italy	2:07.84	6	5
14	Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen	Denmark	2:08.54	6	2
15	Magali Rousseau	France	2:08.57	6	7
16	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:08.63	1	8
17		Poland	2:08.72	6	0
18	Tanya Hunks	Canada	2:09.42	4	8
19	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:09.54	4	7
20	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:09.55	4	1	SA
21	Yana Martynova	Russia	2:09.80	4	0
22	Petra Granlund	Sweden	2:09.87	5	7
23	Rita Medrano	Mexico	2:10.29	5	9	NR
24		Great Britain	2:10.32	4	2
25	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:11.41	5	0
26	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	2:11.55	4	5
27	Martina Granström	Sweden	2:11.65	6	8
28	Katheryn Meaklim	South Africa	2:11.75	6	1
29	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:12.90	3	4
30	Gráinne Murphy	Ireland	2:13.66	3	3
31	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	2:13.77	4	9
32	Tetyana Khala	Ukraine	2:13.98	6	9
33		Cuba	2:14.00	3	7
34		Poland	2:14.09	3	5
35	Barbora Zavadova	Czech Republic	2:14.83	3	8
36	Lynette Lim	Singapore	2:15.82	2	2
37	Nina Dittrich	Austria	2:15.95	5	8
38		Philippines	2:16.13	3	9
39	Yasemin Rosenberger	Turkey	2:16.24	3	2
40		Puerto Rico	2:17.56	3	1
41		Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:18.09	3	6
42		Venezuela	2:18.14	3	0
43	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	2:19.84	2	4
44		Chinese Taipei	2:21.05	1	4
45		Singapore	2:21.31	2	5
46		Guatemala	2:21.37	2	3
47		Honduras	2:21.47	2	9
48		Lithuania	2:22.48	2	0
49		Morocco	2:23.32	2	8
50		Malta	2:24.39	1	6
51	Vandita Dhariyal	India	2:25.07	1	2
52		India	2:25.08	1	3
53		Honduras	2:25.51	1	5
54		Morocco	2:26.69	2	1
55		Chile	2:27.49	2	7
56		Sri Lanka	2:39.21	1	7
57		Fiji	2:45.20	1	1

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:04.27	2	5	ER
2	Mary DeScenza	United States	2:04.33	2	4
3	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	2:04.87	1	4	OC
4	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:04.96	1	6
5	Aurore Mongel	France	2:05.09	1	3	NR
6	Liu Zige	China	2:05.29	1	7
7	Samantha Hamill	Australia	2:05.99	1	5
8	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:06.85	2	6
9	Kathleen Hersey	United States	2:06.89	2	7
10	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:07.43	2	3
11	Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen	Denmark	2:07.44	1	1	NR
12		Italy	2:07.59	2	1
13		Japan	2:08.13	2	2
14	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:08.34	1	8
15	Ellen Gandy	Great Britain	2:08.55	1	2
16	Magali Rousseau	France	2:08.94	2	8

Finals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	2:03.41	3	WR
	Liu Zige	China	2:03.90	7	AS
	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:04.28	4
4	Mary Descenza	United States	2:04.41	5
5	Jiao Liuyang	China	2:04.50	6
6	Aurore Mongel	France	2:05.48	2
7	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	2:05.95	8	NR
8	Samantha Hamill	Australia	2:06.11	1

References[]

Worlds 2009 results: Women's 200m Butterfly Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
Worlds 2009 results: Women's 200m Butterfly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
Finals Results