The women's 200 breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 28–29 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 28 July, with the PrelimsWorlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Prelims results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05. during the morning session and the SemifinalsWorlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05. during the evening session. The Final Worlds 2005 results: Women's 200m Breaststroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-05. swam in the evening session on 29 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were: WR: 2:22.44, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 12 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA CR: 2:22.99, Amanda Beard (USA) swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results

Preliminaries Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H4 L5 Anne Poleska 2:27.31 q 2 H6 L4 Leisel Jones 2:27.63 q 3 H5 L3 Megumi Taneda 2:28.06 q 4 H6 L2 Katarzyna Dulian 2:28.45 q 5 H5 L4 Mirna Jukić 2:28.47 q 6 H6 L5 Chiara Boggiatto 2:28.75 q 7 H4 L2 Suzaan van Biljon 2:29.02 q 8 H4 L3 Ekaterina Kormatcheva 2:29.07 q 9 H5 L7 Tamaryn Laubscher 2:29.80 q 10 H5 L5 Kristen Caverly 2:30.03 q 11 H5 L6 Nanaka Tamura 2:30.52 q 12 H6 L7 Diana Gomes 2:30.59 q 13 H6 L8 Christin Petelski 2:30.75 q 14 H5 L1 Seul-Ki Jung 2:30.82 q 15 H6 L6 Sara Pérez 2:30.93 q 16 H4 L4 Tara Kirk 2:31.48 q 17 H4 L1 Kathleen Stoody 2:32.18 18 H4 L8 Yi Ting Siow 2:32.47 19 H5 L8 Josefin Wede 2:32.48 20 H6 L3 Kirsty Balfour 2:32.93 21 H4 L6 Elena Bogomazova 2:33.41 22 H3 L4 Ina Kapishina 2:33.80 23 H6 L1 Kelly Bentley 2:33.93 24 H4 L7 Marina Kuč 2:34.04 25 H3 L6 Su Yeon Back 2:34.89 26 H3 L7 Binan Wu 2:34.94 27 H3 L2 Eeva Saarinen 2:35.60 28 H3 L8 Tamara Sambrailo 2:35.75 29 H2 L4 Petra Chocova 2:35.98 30 H5 L2 Angeliki Exarchou 2:36.18 31 H2 L1 Annabelle Carey 2:36.72 32 H2 L5 Chenfei Ma 2:38.54 33 H3 L1 Man-Hsu Lin 2:41.11 34 H2 L7 Nicolette Teo 2:42.71 35 H2 L3 Yu-Chia Tong 2:43.61 36 H2 L6 Alia Atkinson 2:44.17 37 H2 L2 Qiyu Sandy Mo 2:44.22 38 H1 L4 Dannielle Van Zijl 2:44.80 39 H1 L5 Sin Ian Lei 2:52.20 40 H1 L3 Mayumi Raheem 2:56.09 -- -- Julie Hjorth-Hansen DNS -- -- Smiljana Marinović DNS

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S1 L4 Leisel Jones 2:25.30 q 2 S2 L4 Anne Poleska 2:26.22 q 3 S2 L3 Mirna Jukić 2:26.85 q 4 S1 L8 Tara Kirk 2:27.31 q 5 S2 L5 Megumi Taneda 2:27.70 q 6 S1 L5 Katarzyna Dulian 2:27.96 q 7 S2 L6 Suzaan van Biljon 2:28.09 q 8 S1 L2 Kristen Caverly 2:28.82 q 9 S1 L3 Chiara Boggiatto 2:28.87 10 S2 L2 Tamaryn Laubscher 2:28.90 11 S2 L8 Sara Pérez 2:29.56 12 S2 L7 Nanaka Tamura 2:29.68 13 S1 L6 Ekaterina Kormatcheva 2:30.23 14 S1 L7 Diana Gomes 2:30.29 15 S1 L1 Seul-Ki Jung 2:30.33 16 S2 L1 Christin Petelski 2:31.18

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Leisel Jones 2:21.72 WR 2 Anne Poleska 2:25.84 3 Mirna Jukić 2:27.11 4 Megumi Taneda 2:27.65 5 Katarzyna Dulian 2:27.85 6 Tara Kirk 2:28.60 6 Kristen Caverly 2:28.60 8 Suzaan van Biljon 2:29.44

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