Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle
The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals and 5 August with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.Results
Heats
The heats were held at 09:49.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Katie Ledecky | | 1:55.82 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Katinka Hosszú | | 1:56.32 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | Missy Franklin | | 1:56.42 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Shen Duo | | 1:56.75 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Veronika Popova | | 1:57.18 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | | 1:57.34 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 5 | Emma McKeon | | 1:57.78 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 6 | Charlotte Bonnet | | 1:57.99 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | | 1:58.10 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | Michelle Coleman | | 1:58.11 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 5 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | | 1:58.27 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 7 | Guo Junjun | | 1:58.27 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Viktoriya Andreyeva | | 1:58.31 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 7 | Chihiro Igarashi | | 1:58.31 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Nina Rangelova | | 1:58.41 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 8 | Manuella Lyrio | | 1:58.68 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 2 | Melanie Wright | | 1:58.94 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Melania Costa | | 1:59.00 | |
| 19 | 5 | 0 | Louise Hansson | | 1:59.34 | |
| 20 | 7 | 8 | Sachi Mochida | | 1:59.35 | |
| 21 | 6 | 8 | Emily Overholt | | 1:59.61 | |
| 22 | 6 | 2 | Alice Mizzau | | 1:59.68 | |
| 23 | 7 | 7 | Coralie Balmy | | 1:59.70 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | Lisa Zaiser | | 1:59.97 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Anna Kolářová | | 2:00.24 | |
| 26 | 7 | 0 | Katerine Savard | | 2:00.30 | |
| 27 | 7 | 1 | Larissa Oliveira | | 2:00.35 | |
| 28 | 4 | 4 | Cecilie Johannessen | | 2:00.67 | |
| 29 | 4 | 5 | Katarína Listopadová | | 2:00.69 | |
| 30 | 6 | 0 | Evelyn Verrasztó | | 2:00.72 | |
| 31 | 5 | 9 | Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên | | 2:00.80 | |
| 32 | 6 | 9 | Camille Cheng | | 2:00.96 | |
| 33 | 4 | 3 | Theodora Giareni | | 2:01.00 | |
| 34 | 4 | 0 | Danielle Villars | | 2:01.03 | |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | | 2:01.28 | |
| 36 | 4 | 2 | Jessica Camposano | | 2:01.81 | |
| 36 | 4 | 1 | Jasmine Al-Khaldi | | 2:01.81 | |
| 38 | 4 | 9 | Quah Ting Wen | | 2:02.13 | |
| 39 | 3 | 2 | Gaja Natlačen | | 2:02.32 | |
| 40 | 4 | 8 | Kimberly Buys | | 2:02.54 | |
| 41 | 3 | 6 | Gizem Bozkurt | | 2:02.63 | |
| 42 | 4 | 6 | Natthanan Junkrajang | | 2:02.83 | |
| 43 | 3 | 7 | Julia Hassler | | 2:03.08 | |
| 44 | 4 | 7 | Katarina Simonović | | 2:03.21 | |
| 45 | 3 | 1 | Monique Olivier | | 2:03.23 | |
| 46 | 3 | 5 | Elisbet Gámez | | 2:03.56 | |
| 47 | 3 | 4 | Sycerika McMahon | | 2:03.89 | |
| 48 | 3 | 0 | Andrea Cedrón | | 2:04.07 | |
| 49 | 2 | 3 | Sara Pastrana | | 2:06.15 | |
| 50 | 2 | 4 | Rebeca Quinteros | | 2:06.75 | |
| 51 | 2 | 1 | Arianna Sanna | | 2:07.24 | NR |
| 52 | 2 | 5 | Lani Cabrera | | 2:07.75 | |
| 53 | 2 | 7 | Elena Giovannini | | 2:07.84 | |
| 54 | 3 | 9 | Chrysoula Karamanou | | 2:09.01 | |
| 55 | 2 | 2 | Matelita Buadromo | | 2:09.07 | |
| 56 | 2 | 6 | Lydia Musleh | | 2:09.74 | |
| 57 | 2 | 0 | Nadia Tudo | | 2:12.21 | |
| 58 | 2 | 9 | Nikol Merizaj | | 2:14.58 | |
| 59 | 2 | 8 | Ani Poghosyan | | 2:16.22 | |
| 60 | 1 | 4 | Sofia Shah | | 2:18.93 | |
| 61 | 1 | 3 | Kaya Forson | | 2:23.72 | |
| 62 | 1 | 6 | Aminath Shajan | | 2:28.75 | |
| 63 | 1 | 5 | Nada Arkaji | | 2:30.40 | |
| 7 | 9 | Johanna Friedrich | | | |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held on 4 August at 18:44.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Missy Franklin | | 1:56.37 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Veronika Popova | | 1:56.56 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Katie Ledecky | | 1:56.76 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Femke Heemskerk | | 1:56.91 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Emma McKeon | | 1:56.95 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | | 1:57.30 | |
| 7 | 1 | Viktoriya Andreyeva | | 1:58.14 | |
| 8 | 8 | Nina Rangelova | | 1:59.54 | |
Final
The final was held at 18:01.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 7 | Katie Ledecky | | 1:55.16 | |
| 4 | Federica Pellegrini | | 1:55.32 | |
| 5 | Missy Franklin | | 1:55.49 | |
| 4 | 2 | Veronika Popova | | 1:56.16 | |
| 5 | 6 | Katinka Hosszú | | 1:56.19 | NR |
| 6 | 3 | Shen Duo | | 1:56.27 | |
| 7 | 8 | Emma McKeon | | 1:56.41 | |
| 8 | 1 | Femke Heemskerk | | 1:56.79 | |
