The heats for the women's 200 m breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July and the final took place in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 2:20.22 Beijing, China 15 August 2008Championship record 2:21.72 Montreal, Canada 29 July 2005 The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 30 July Heat 6 Annamay Pierse Canada 2:21.68 CR 30 July Semifinal 1 Rebecca Soni United States 2:20.93 CR 30 July Semifinal 2 Annamay Pierse Canada 2:20.12 WR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Annamay Pierse 2:21.68 6 4 CR 2 Rebecca Soni 2:22.09 7 4 3 Mirna Jukić 2:22.10 7 5 ER 4 Nađa Higl 2:23.19 4 7 5 Nanaka Tamura 2:23.22 7 3 6 Rie Kaneto 2:23.50 5 4 6 Martha McCabe 2:23.50 5 5 8 Keri Hehn 2:23.60 7 6 9 Ilaria Scarcella 2:24.20 5 3 10 Rikke Møller-Pedersen 2:24.46 5 9 NR 11 Jeong Darae 2:25.00 6 7 12 Joline Höstman 2:25.15 7 2 NR 13 Caroline Ruhnau 2:25.57 7 1 14 Sally Foster 2:26.07 7 7 15 Yuliya Yefimova 2:26.18 6 3 16 Sophie de Ronchi 2:26.45 6 2 17 Marina Garcia 2:26.69 5 2 18 Chiara Boggiatto 2:26.74 7 8 19 Chen Huijia 2:26.82 3 4 20 Sun Ye 2:27.08 5 6 21 Sarah Katsoulis 2:27.32 5 7 22 Sara Nordenstam 2:27.55 6 5 23 Jessica Pengelly 2:27.64 4 4 24 Inna Kapishina 2:27.89 7 0 25 Urte Kazakeviciute 2:28.13 2 3 NR 26 Petra Chocova 2:28.37 4 9 27 Angeliki Exarchou 2:28.62 6 0 28 Elise Matthysen 2:29.05 5 8 29 Raminta Dvariskyte 2:29.40 3 6 30 Diana Gomes 2:29.80 4 1 31 Anastasia Korotkov 2:30.17 3 1 NR 32 Patrizia Humplik 2:30.27 6 8 33 Agnieszka Ostrowska 2:30.59 4 3 34 Lia Dekker 2:31.08 6 9 35 Sarra Lajnef 2:31.12 4 2 36 Back Su Yeon 2:31.20 6 1 37 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 2:31.39 3 2 NR 38 Yekaterina Sadovnik 2:31.52 3 8 39 Stacey Tadd 2:32.01 4 0 40 Siow Yi Ting 2:32.09 7 9 41 Fanny Lecluyse 2:32.93 3 5 42 Katheryn Meaklim 2:33.10 4 5 43 Yuliya Banach 2:33.95 4 8 44 Tatiane Sakemi 2:34.11 4 6 45 Valentina Artemyeva 2:34.34 6 1 46 Tanja Šmid 2:37.43 3 7 47 Daniela Victoria 2:37.65 3 0 48 Maxine Heard 2:37.77 2 1 NR 49 Daniela Lindemeier 2:39.71 2 2 NR 50 Nibal Yamout 2:43.44 2 5 51 Roanne Ho 2:43.72 2 0 52 Maria Coy 2:44.09 2 6 53 Cheryl Lim 2:44.33 3 9 54 Selma Atic 2:45.00 2 7 55 Chen I-Chuan 2:45.30 2 4 56 Maria Zenoni 2:45.57 2 9 NR 57 Lei On Kei 2:51.88 2 8 58 Karen Vilorio 2:54.35 1 5 59 Murugaperumal Venpa 3:00.51 1 3 60 Danielle Bernadine Findlay 3:02.16 1 6 61 Aqsa Tariq 3:16.33 1 7 62 Aelia Mehdi 3:31.32 1 1 – Tea Pikuli DNS 1 2 – Dilara Buse Gunaydin DNS 3 3 – Hannah Miley DNS 5 1 – Stephanie Rasoamanana DSQ 1 4 – Carolina Mussi DSQ 5 0

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Annamay Pierse 2:20.12 2 4 WR 2 Rebecca Soni 2:20.93 1 4 3 Mirna Jukić 2:22.13 2 5 4 Joline Höstman 2:22.24 1 7 NR 5 Nađa Higl 2:22.28 1 5 6 Martha McCabe 2:22.75 2 6 7 Nanaka Tamura 2:22.83 2 3 8 Rie Kaneto 2:22.92 1 3 9 Keri Hehn 2:23.20 1 6 10 Ilaria Scarcella 2:23.32 2 2 NR 11 Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:23.34 1 2 NR 12 Jeong Darae 2:25.00 2 7 13 Caroline Ruhnau 2:25.36 2 1 14 Yuliya Yefimova 2:26.39 2 8 15 Sally Foster 2:27.03 1 1 16 Sophie de Ronchi 2:28.75 1 8

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Nađa Higl 2:21.62 2 ER Annamay Pierse 2:21.84 4 Mirna Jukić 2:21.97 3 NR 4 Rebecca Soni 2:22.15 5 5 Rie Kaneto 2:23.03 8 6 Nanaka Tamura 2:23.12 1 7 Martha McCabe 2:23.36 7 8 Joline Höstman 2:23.62 6

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