The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 June 2022.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 20 June at 09:16.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Yang Junxuan 1:56.58 Q 2 3 5 Madison Wilson 1:56.85 Q 3 3 6 Leah Smith 1:57.22 Q 3 5 5 Penny Oleksiak 1:57.22 Q 5 4 5 Mollie O'Callaghan 1:57.28 Q 6 5 3 Freya Anderson 1:57.53 Q 7 4 1 Janja Šegel 1:57.71 Q 8 4 2 Stephanie Balduccini 1:57.81 Q 9 3 3 Isabel Marie Gose 1:57.94 Q 10 4 3 Charlotte Bonnet 1:58.14 Q 11 4 6 Erika Fairweather 1:58.26 Q 12 4 4 Tang Muhan 1:58.28 Q 13 5 1 Marrit Steenbergen 1:58.33 Q 14 5 2 Taylor Ruck 1:58.41 Q 15 5 6 Claire Weinstein 1:58.76 Q 16 3 2 Katja Fain 1:58.84 Q 17 3 7 Valentine Dumont 1:58.86 18 4 7 Nikolett Pádár 1:58.90 19 5 7 Freya Colbert 1:59.48 20 4 8 Snæfríður Jórunnardóttir 2:00.61 21 3 1 Marlene Kahler 2:00.75 22 3 8 Elisbet Gámez 2:00.86 23 5 8 Daria Golovaty 2:01.01 24 2 5 Karen Durango 2:01.61 25 4 9 Ieva Maļuka 2:02.43 26 3 0 Jung Hyun-young 2:02.64 27 5 9 Sofia Åstedt 2:03.22 28 5 0 Aleksa Gold 2:03.46 29 3 9 Zhanet Angelova 2:05.88 30 2 3 Lucero Mejía 2:06.78 31 2 4 Kamonchanok Kwanmuang 2:07.20 32 2 6 Jehanara Nabi 2:11.13 33 2 2 Natalia Kuipers 2:12.20 34 2 7 Bianca Mitchell 2:13.84 35 1 5 Tilly Collymore 2:15.68 36 2 1 Therese Soukup 2:16.23 37 2 8 Zaira Forson 2:20.83 38 1 4 Charissa Panuve 2:22.93 39 1 3 Keana Santos 2:30.08 4 0 Gan Ching Hwee 5 4 Siobhán Haughey

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 20 June at 19:15.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 3 Freya Anderson 1:56.05 Q 2 1 4 Madison Wilson 1:56.31 Q 3 2 3 Mollie O'Callaghan 1:56.34 Q 4 1 2 Charlotte Bonnet 1:56.54 Q 5 2 4 Yang Junxuan 1:56.75 Q 6 1 1 Taylor Ruck 1:56.80 Q 7 2 2 Isabel Marie Gose 1:56.82 Q 8 1 7 Tang Muhan 1:56.87 Q 9 2 5 Leah Smith 1:56.90 10 2 8 Claire Weinstein 1:56.94 11 2 7 Erika Fairweather 1:57.43 12 1 6 Stephanie Balduccini 1:57.54 13 1 8 Katja Fain 1:58.00 14 2 6 Janja Šegel 1:58.10 15 2 1 Marrit Steenbergen 1:58.93 – 1 5 Penny Oleksiak Disqualified

Final The final was held on 21 June at 18:17.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Yang Junxuan 1:54.92 3 Mollie O'Callaghan 1:55.22 8 Tang Muhan 1:56.25 4 4 Freya Anderson 1:56.68 5 5 Madison Wilson 1:56.85 6 6 Charlotte Bonnet 1:57.24 6 7 Taylor Ruck 1:57.24 8 1 Isabel Marie Gose 1:57.38

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