2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	21 December (heats and final)
Competitors	34 from 30 nations
Winning time	2:17.85
Medalists
	Evgeniia Chikunova
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 21 December 2021.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Rebecca Soni (USA)	2:14.57	Manchester, Great Britain	18 December 2009
Competition record	Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)	2:16.08	Istanbul, Turkey	16 December 2012

The heats were started at 09:52.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russian Swimming Federation	2:19.56	Q
2	3	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:20.31	Q
3	2	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:20.33	Q
4	2	5	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:20.53	Q
5	4	4	Emily Escobedo	United States	2:21.30	Q
6	4	2	Tessa Cieplucha	Canada	2:21.35	Q
7	3	9	Mona McSharry	Ireland	2:21.59	Q, NR
7	4	3	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:21.59	Q
9	4	5	Maria Temnikova	Russian Swimming Federation	2:21.88
10	3	2	Emelie Fast	Sweden	2:22.02
11	2	3	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:22.11
12	2	0	Tang Qianting	China	2:22.15
13	4	9	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:22.57
14	2	7	Niamh Coyne	Ireland	2:23.03
15	2	8	Eszter Békési	Hungary	2:23.06
16	2	6	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:23.38
17	3	5	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:23.44
18	3	0	Martina Barbeito	Argentina	2:24.70
19	2	9	Justine Delmas	France	2:25.06
20	3	8	Lena Kreundl	Austria	2:25.22
21	4	0	Ana Blažević	Croatia	2:25.30
22	2	2	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	2:25.32
23	4	7	Pamela Alencar	Brazil	2:25.98
24	4	6	Tjasa Vozel	Slovenia	2:26.02
25	1	4	Melissa Rodríguez	Mexico	2:26.22
26	1	5	Anastasia Basisto	Moldova	2:26.41	NR
27	2	1	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	2:26.46
28	4	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:27.89
29	1	3	Phiangkhwan Pawapotako	Thailand	2:28.19
30	3	7	Laura Lahtinen	Finland	2:28.20
31	1	2	Nàdia Tudó	Andorra	2:30.40
32	1	6	Lam Hoi Kiu	Hong Kong	2:31.43
33	1	7	Krista Jurado	Guatemala	2:36.40	NR
34	1	8	Tessa Ip Hen Cheung	Mauritius	2:43.81
	1	1	Emilie Grand'Pierre	Haiti	DNS
	3	1	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia
	3	3	Jessica Vall	Spain
	4	1	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia

The final was held at 18:41.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Emily Escobedo	United States	2:17.85
	4	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russian Swimming Federation	2:17.88
	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:17.96
4	5	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:18.13	NR
5	6	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:19.77
6	7	Tessa Cieplucha	Canada	2:19.99
7	1	Mona McSharry	Ireland	2:20.19	NR
8	8	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:20.70

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
^ Heats results
^ Final results