The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 December 2022.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started at 11:05.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 5 Marrit Steenbergen 1:52.83 Q 2 5 4 Siobhán Haughey 1:53.39 Q 3 4 3 Erin Gemmell 1:53.47 Q 4 5 3 Barbora Seemanová 1:53.67 Q 5 5 5 Rebecca Smith 1:53.85 Q 6 3 5 Leah Neale 1:54.05 Q 7 5 7 Taylor Ruck 1:54.15 Q 8 3 4 Madison Wilson 1:54.18 Q 9 5 6 Hali Flickinger 1:54.20 10 3 3 Katja Fain 1:54.96 11 3 7 Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir 1:55.34 NR 12 5 1 Helena Bach 1:55.79 13 4 2 Valentine Dumont 1:55.80 14 5 2 Chihiro Igarashi 1:56.22 15 5 8 Batbayaryn Enkhkhüslen 1:56.46 NR 16 4 6 Stephanie Balduccini 1:57.09 17 4 7 Elisbet Gámez 1:57.11 NR 18 3 6 Giovanna Diamante 1:57.44 19 3 8 Caitlin Deans 1:57.93 20 3 1 Sofia Åstedt 1:58.04 21 2 2 Hur Yeon-kyung 1:58.41 22 2 6 Inés Marín 1:58.79 NR 23 2 3 Merve Tuncel 1:59.32 24 2 5 Martina Cibulková 2:02.20 25 2 4 Iman Avdić 2:02.30 26 2 8 Lucero Mejía 2:02.57 NR 27 2 1 Sasha Gatt 2:03.72 28 2 7 Julimar Ávila 2:04.28 NR 29 1 4 Ani Poghosyan 2:04.30 NR 30 1 5 Jehanara Nabi 2:06.32 NR 31 1 3 Kaltra Meca 2:10.75 32 1 1 Darýa Semýonowa 2:12.43 33 1 6 Lubaina Ali Suspended Member Federation 2:13.65 34 1 2 Charissa Panuve 2:17.97 35 1 7 Jhnayali Tokome-Garap 2:24.23 1 8 Maha Al-Shehhi 3 2 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 4 1 Laura Lahtinen 4 4 Li Bingjie 4 8 Gan Ching Hwee
Final The final was held at 20:36.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Siobhán Haughey 1:51.65 2 Rebecca Smith 1:52.24 4 Marrit Steenbergen 1:52.28 4 3 Erin Gemmell 1:52.56 5 6 Barbora Seemanová 1:52.66 NR 6 7 Leah Neale 1:52.84 7 1 Taylor Ruck 1:52.88 8 8 Madison Wilson 1:53.39
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