Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle
The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
| World record Championship record | Federica Pellegrini | 1:52.98 | Rome | July 29, 2009 |
Results
Heats
49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 5 | Allison Schmitt | 1:56.66 | Q | |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | 1:56.87 | Q | |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Bronte Barratt | 1:57.37 | Q | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | Ágnes Mutina | 1:57.40 | Q | |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Kylie Palmer | 1:57.42 | Q | |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Femke Heemskerk | 1:57.43 | Q | |
| 7 | 7 | 6 | Silke Lippok | 1:57.53 | Q | |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Lauren Boyle | 1:57.72 | Q | |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Camille Muffat | 1.57.99 | Q | |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | Sara Isakovič | 1:58.01 | Q | |
| 11 | 7 | 8 | Melania Costa Schmid | 1:58.04 | Q | |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Sarah Sjöström | 1:58.26 | Q | |
| 12 | 6 | 8 | Barbara Jardin | 1:58.26 | Q | |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | 1:58.27 | Q | |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Tang Yi | 1:58.30 | Q | |
| 16 | 6 | 2 | Haruka Ueda | 1:58.74 | swimoff | |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Hanae Ito | 1:58.74 | swimoff | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Samantha Cheverton | 1:58.83 | ||
| 19 | 5 | 3 | Veronika Popova | 1:58.89 | ||
| 20 | 7 | 2 | Morgan Scroggy | 1:59.22 | ||
| 21 | 7 | 3 | Zhu Qianwei | 1:59.22 | ||
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Nina Rangelova | 1:59.30 | ||
| 23 | 5 | 7 | Joanne Jackson | 1:59.36 | ||
| 24 | 5 | 2 | Rebecca Adlington | 1:59.40 | ||
| 25 | 4 | 1 | Karin Prinsloo | 1:59.52 | ||
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Pernille Blume | 1:59.96 | ||
| 27 | 6 | 7 | Gabriella Fagundez | 2:00.05 | ||
| 28 | 4 | 3 | Sze Hang Yu | 2:00.52 | ||
| 29 | 4 | 5 | Cecilie Johannessen | 2:00.56 | ||
| 30 | 3 | 3 | Joerdis Steinegger | 2:01.06 | ||
| 31 | 3 | 5 | Melanie Nocher | 2:01.33 | ||
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Daryna Zevina | 2:01.50 | ||
| 33 | 4 | 7 | Anna Stylianou | 2:01.62 | ||
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Liliana Ibanez | 2:01.70 | ||
| 35 | 4 | 8 | Katarina Filova | 2:01.96 | ||
| 36 | 3 | 8 | Katarina Listopadova | 2:02.15 | ||
| 37 | 3 | 7 | Ranohon Amanova | 2:02.89 | ||
| 38 | 3 | 2 | Kim Jungh-Hye | 2:03.13 | ||
| 39 | 3 | 1 | Natthanan Junkrajang | 2:03.68 | ||
| 40 | 2 | 4 | Andrea Cedron | 2:08.10 | ||
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Bayan Jumah | 2:09.08 | ||
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Branka Vranjes | 2:09.64 | ||
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Heather Arseth | 2:10.93 | ||
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Olivia de Maroussem | 2:12.28 | ||
| 45 | 2 | 6 | Ma Cheok Mei | 2:12.39 | ||
| 46 | 2 | 8 | Britany van Lange | 2:16.40 | ||
| 47 | 1 | 3 | Victoria Chentsova | 2:27.86 | ||
| 48 | 1 | 5 | Aure Fanchette | 2:31.88 | ||
| 49 | 1 | 6 | Jennet Saryyeva | 2:41.27 | ||
| – | 1 | 4 | Gouri Kotecha | DNS | ||
| – | 2 | 5 | Victoria Ho | DNS | ||
| – | 3 | 6 | Andreina Pinto | DNS |
Swimoff
As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Haruka Ueda | 1:58.19 | Q | |
| 2 | 5 | Hanae Ito | 1:58.55 |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:14.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Kylie Palmer | 1:56.59 | Q | |
| 2 | 2 | Camille Muffat | 1:56.62 | Q | |
| 3 | 5 | Bronte Barratt | 1:56.90 | Q | |
| 4 | 6 | Silke Lippok | 1:57.02 | Q | |
| 5 | 4 | Allison Schmitt | 1:57.07 | Q | |
| 6 | 7 | Melania Costa Schmid | 1:57.83 | NR | |
| 7 | 8 | Tang Yi | 1:57.91 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Barbara Jardin | 1:58.18 |
Final
The final was held at 18:32.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 5 | Federica Pellegrini | 1:55.58 | |||
| 3 | Kylie Palmer | 1:56.04 | |||
| 6 | Camille Muffat | 1:56.10 | |||
| 4 | 2 | Sarah Sjöström | 1:56.41 | ||
| 5 | 7 | Bronte Barratt | 1:56.60 | ||
| 6 | 8 | Allison Schmitt | 1:56.98 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | 1:57.63 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Silke Lippok | 1:58.26 |