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

The heats for the women's 200 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 28 July and the final took place in the evening session of 29 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Federica Pellegrini Italy	Allison Schmitt United States	Dana Vollmer United States

Records[]

The existing records at the start of the event were:

World Record (WR)
1:54.47	Federica Pellegrini	Riccione	8 March 2009
Championships Record (CR)
1:55.52	Laure Manaudou	Melbourne	28 March 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Dana Vollmer	United States	1:55.98	9	5
2	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:56.75	10	5
3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	1:56.81	8	5
4	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:56.84	9	2	NR
5	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:56.99	9	4
6	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:57.22	10	4
7	Coralie Balmy	France	1:57.30	9	3
8	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	1:57.32	8	2
9	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	1:57.44	9	6
10	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:57.63	8	7
11	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:57.64	10	3
12	Yang Yu	China	1:57.83	8	6
13	Pang Jiaying	China	1:57.91	8	4
14	Stephanie Rice	Australia	1:58.06	8	3
15		Australia	1:58.10	9	7
16	Elena Sokolova	Russia	1:58.14	9	1	NR
17	Haruka Ueda	Japan	1:58.27	10	7
18	Heather MacLean	Canada	1:58.42	10	2
19	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:58.58	8	8
20		Canada	1:58.63	8	1
21	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	1:59.11	10	8	NR
22	Gabriella Fagundez	Sweden	1:59.54	10	1
23	Erica Buratto	Italy	2:00.08	9	0
24	Katarina Filova	Slovakia	2:00.11	6	3
25	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	2:00.21	8	0
26	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	2:00.60	8	9
27	Yang Chin-Kuei	Chinese Taipei	2:01.00	7	3
28		South Korea	2:01.17	7	5
29	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	2:01.28	7	8
30	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	2:01.33	9	9
31	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli	Argentina	2:01.35	7	7
32		Austria	2:01.58	7	6
33	Katarzyna Wilk	Poland	2:01.72	10	9
34		Norway	2:01.98	7	2
35		Cuba	2:02.17	6	6
36	Yanel Pinto	Venezuela	2:02.32	5	7	NR
37		Ireland	2:02.46	7	0
38		Ireland	2:02.72	7	1
39		Colombia	2:02.97	5	9	NR
40		Belgium	2:03.01	7	9
41	Elina Partoka	Estonia	2:03.28	7	4
42	Christine Mailliet	Luxembourg	2:03.59	6	9
43	Katarina Listopadova	Slovakia	2:03.62	5	4
44	Liliana Ibanez	Mexico	2:03.73	6	7	NR
45	Amanda Lim	Singapore	2:03.89	6	4
46	Pamela Benitez	El Salvador	2:03.96	6	1
47		Philippines	2:04.26	5	6
48	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:04.36	1	9
49		Ecuador	2:04.51	5	5
50	Annika Saarnak	Estonia	2:05.15	5	1
51		Venezuela	2:05.27	5	3
52		South Korea	2:05.29	5	2
53		Puerto Rico	2:05.88	4	2	NR
54	Maroua Mathlouthi	Tunisia	2:06.23	6	8
55		Zimbabwe	2:06.64	6	0
56	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	2:07.37	3	3	NR
57	Ranohon Amanova	Uzbekistan	2:07.45	4	4
58		Zimbabwe	2:07.52	4	7
59	Khoo Cai Lin	Malaysia	2:07.53	6	2
60		Chinese Taipei	2:08.31	5	8
61		Lithuania	2:08.47	5	0
62		Chile	2:09.20	4	5
63	Andrea Cedron	Peru	2:09.54	4	2
64		Albania	2:10.04	3	7
65	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname	2:10.14	3	0
66		Seychelles	2:11.34	2	5
67		Peru	2:11.47	4	6
68		Bolivia	2:11.60	2	4
69		Macau	2:12.52	4	0
70		India	2:12.57	2	1
71	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	2:12.68	4	9
72		Jordan	2:13.64	3	4
73		Malta	2:14.08	3	6
74		Syria	2:15.27	3	8
75		Vietnam	2:15.71	4	8
76	Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra	Honduras	2:15.76	2	7
77		French Polynesia	2:15.87	2	2
78	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	2:16.39	2	9
79		Grenada	2:16.92	2	3
80		Kenya	2:18.12	1	5
81		Dominican Republic	2:18.24	2	0
82		Mauritius	2:18.83	2	8
83		Macau	2:19.04	3	9
84	Sylvia Brunlehner	Kenya	2:19.20	1	3
85		Aruba	2:19.31	3	5
86		Fiji	2:23.93	1	6
87		Zambia	2:24.45	1	2
88	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	2:27.63	1	7
89		Pakistan	2:32.58	1	1
90		Palau	2:32.72	1	0
91	Osisang Chilton	Palau	2:33.88	1	8
–	Rovena Marku	Albania	DNS	1	4
–		Namibia	DNS	2	6
–		Egypt	DNS	6	5
–	Lotte Friis	Denmark	DNS	9	8
–	Hanae Ito	Japan	DNS	10	0
–	Camelia Potec	Romania	DNS	10	6
–		Malta	DSQ	3	2

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:53.67	1	3	WR
2	Dana Vollmer	United States	1:55.29	2	4	AM
3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	1:55.54	2	5	NR
4	Allison Schmitt	United States	1:56.11	1	4
5	Yang Yu	China	1:56.19	1	7
6	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:56.47	1	5	NR
7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:56.51	1	2
8	Pang Jiaying	China	1:56.58	2	1
9	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	1:56.62	2	2
10	Coralie Balmy	France	1:56.79	2	6
11	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.86	2	7
12	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	1:57.00	1	6
13	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	1:57.04	2	3
14		Australia	1:57.43	2	8
15	Elena Sokolova	Russia	1:57.96	1	8	NR
16	Stephanie Rice	Australia	1:58.33	1	1

Final[]

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	WR
	6	Allison Schmitt	USA	1:54.96	AM
	5	Dana Vollmer	USA	1:55.64
4	3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	1:55.88
5	2	Yang Yu	China	1:56.28
6	8	Pang Jiaying	China	1:56.47
7	7	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:56.70
8	1	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:57.50

References[]

2009 Worlds results: Women's 200m Free Prelims from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
2009 Worlds results: Women's 200m Free Semifinals from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
Finals Results