2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	7 December
Competitors	43 from 34 nations
Winning time	2:16.92
Medalists
Kanako Watanabe    Japan   Rie Kaneto    Japan   Rikke Møller Pedersen    Denmark

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) will be held on 7 December.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:14.57	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.08	Istanbul	16 December 2012

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:05.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:18.45	Q
2	5	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:18.80	Q
3	3	7	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:18.95	Q
4	3	5	Shi Jinglin	China	2:18.98	Q
5	4	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:19.16	Q
6	5	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.24	Q
7	4	3	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:19.49	Q
8	5	6	Mariia Astashkina	Russia	2:19.71	Q
9	3	3	Sally Hunter	Australia	2:20.06
10	3	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:20.08
11	4	2	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:20.13
12	5	1	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	2:21.16
13	3	6	He Yun	China	2:21.52
14	4	9	Emma Reaney	United States	2:21.58
15	5	7	Jessica Vall Montero	Spain	2:21.66
16	4	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:22.36
17	3	1	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:22.69
18	4	7	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	2:22.78
19	5	3	Viktoria Güneş	Turkey	2:22.93
20	5	8	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:22.96
21	5	2	Hanna Dzerkal	Ukraine	2:23.63
22	3	8	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	2:23.71
23	5	0	Melanie Margalis	United States	2:23.74
24	3	2	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	2:25.37
25	4	8	Ana Radić	Croatia	2:26.44
26	5	9	Emily Visagie	South Africa	2:26.65
27	2	4	Jovana Bogdanović	Serbia	2:26.92
28	4	6	Amit Ivry	Israel	2:26.97
29	4	0	Tatjana Schoenmaker	South Africa	2:28.25
30	2	2	Fanni Gyurinovics	Hungary	2:29.62
31	2	6	Lin Pei-wun	Chinese Taipei	2:29.73
32	3	0	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	2:33.03
33	2	3	Ana Carla Carvalho	Brazil	2:33.64
34	2	5	Gülşen Samanci	Turkey	2:34.07
35	2	1	Antonia Roth	Namibia	2:34.33
36	2	9	María Burgos	Puerto Rico	2:37.73
37	2	8	Lei On Kei	Macau	2:39.38
38	2	0	Sofía López	Paraguay	2:39.90
39	1	4	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	2:40.78
40	1	3	San Su Moe Theint	Myanmar	2:51.56
41	1	6	Bonita Imsirovic	Botswana	2:55.30
42	1	5	Chade Nersicio	Curaçao	3:02.15
—	3	9	Maria Marzocchi	Seychelles		DNS
—	2	7	Daniela Lindemeier	Namibia		DSQ

Final

The final were held at 18:28.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	2:16.92
02 !	2	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:17.43
03 !	7	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:17.83
4	3	Kierra Smith	Canada	2:18.30
5	6	Shi Jinglin	China	2:18.64
6	8	Mariia Astashkina	Russia	2:18.95
7	1	Martha McCabe	Canada	2:19.17
8	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:19.65

References