Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	August 1, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 2, 2013 (final)
Competitors	37 from 31 nations
Winning time	2:19.41
Medalists
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Barcelona Palau San Jordi

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Rebecca Soni (USA)	2:19.59	London, Great Britain	2 August 2012	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Annamay Pierse (CAN)	2:20.12	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009	^[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
1 August	Semifinal 1	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	WR, CR

The heats were held at 10:37.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:21.74	Q
2	4	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:22.20	Q
3	2	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:23.13	Q
4	4	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.91	Q
5	2	6	Marina García	Spain	2:24.21	Q
6	3	6	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:24.65	Q, NR
7	3	2	Shi Jinglin	China	2:25.73	Q
8	3	5	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:25.91	Q
9	3	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.62	Q
10	4	3	Breeja Larson	United States	2:26.90	Q
11	3	4	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:27.31	Q
12	3	3	Sally Foster	Australia	2:27.41	Q
13	2	7	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	2:27.47	Q
14	2	3		South Korea	2:27.78	Q
15	3	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:28.04	Q, NR
16	4	7	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:28.12	Q
17	4	8	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:28.15
18	4	1	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:28.35	NR
19	4	6	Joline Hostman	Sweden	2:28.41
20	2	8	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:30.49	NR
21	4	2	Tera van Beilen	Canada	2:31.34
22	2	1	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:31.49
23	1	5	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:31.99
24	1	4	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	2:32.55
25	2	9	Esther González	Mexico	2:32.82
26	4	9	Julia Sebastián	Argentina	2:32.88
27	3	9		Latvia	2:33.07
28	1	6	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:33.48	NR
29	2	0	Raminta Dvariškytė	Lithuania	2:33.84
30	2	2	Hanna Dzerkal	Ukraine	2:34.06
31	1	3		South Africa	2:34.41
32	4	0		Romania	2:34.66
33	1	2		Namibia	2:37.47	NR
34	1	7		Cyprus	2:39.65
35	1	8		Papua New Guinea	2:47.99
36	1	0	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	2:55.65	NR
	3	0	Lisa Zaiser	Austria		DSQ
	1	1		Vietnam		DNS
	3	1	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:20.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Q, WR
2	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:23.28	Q
3	7	Sally Foster	Australia	2:24.14	Q
4	3	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:24.19	Q, NR
5	6	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:24.68	Q
6	2	Breeja Larson	United States	2:26.22
7	1		South Korea	2:27.67
8	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:29.30

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:19.85	Q
2	3	Marina García	Spain	2:22.88	Q, NR
3	4	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:23.23	Q
4	6	Shi Jinglin	China	2:25.52
5	1	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	2:25.61
6	7	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	2:25.77
7	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:27.00
8	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:29.86

The final was held at 18:55.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:19.41	NR
	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:20.08
	6	Micah Lawrence	United States	2:22.37
4	2	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:22.96
5	1	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	2:23.01	NR
6	3	Marina García	Spain	2:23.55
7	7	Sally Foster	Australia	2:24.01
8	8	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:25.21

^ "BCN 2013 – Swimming: Schedule". FINA. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
^ Start list
^ Auerbach, Nicole (2 August 2012). "Rebecca Soni sets world record in winning gold". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
^ "Rebecca Soni breaks 200 breast world record again, wins gold". London 2012. NBC Olympics. 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
^ "Pierse sets world breaststroke record". CBC Sports. 30 July 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
^ Heats Results
^ Semifinal Results
^ Final Results