The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.

Qualification

Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 2:11.08. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 2:15.67. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.

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

Results Heats The Heats were held on 16 February at 09:52.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Claire Curzan 2:10.50 Q 2 2 4 Jaclyn Barclay 2:10.82 Q 3 2 2 Gabriela Georgieva 2:10.86 Q 4 4 5 Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy 2:10.95 Q 5 4 3 Anastasiya Shkurdai    Neutral Independent Athletes 2:11.34 Q 6 3 6 Dóra Molnár 2:11.35 Q 7 3 5 Laura Bernat 2:11.51 Q 8 2 5 Adela Piskorska 2:11.65 Q 9 3 2 Anastasia Gorbenko 2:11.78 Q 10 4 7 Sun Mingxia 2:11.79 Q 11 3 4 Freya Colbert 2:12.08 Q 12 4 6 África Zamorano 2:12.55 Q 13 2 3 Lilla Bognar 2:12.56 Q 14 2 6 Ingrid Wilm 2:12.67 Q 15 4 2 Cindy Cheung 2:13.11 Q 16 3 7 Hannah Pearse 2:13.26 Q 17 2 7 Maria Godden 2:13.30 18 3 3 Camila Rebelo 2:13.33 19 3 1 Xeniya Ignatova 2:14.22 20 4 1 Kristen Romano 2:14.46 21 4 8 Chua Xiandi 2:15.01 22 2 1 Kim Seung-won 2:17.16 23 2 8 Janja Šegel 2:17.31 24 2 0 Celina Márquez 2:18.69 25 3 8 Alexia Sotomayor 2:20.05 26 4 0 Natalia Zaiteva 2:20.07 27 3 0 Carolina Cermelli 2:20.33 28 4 9 Andrea Becali 2:21.54 29 1 4 Ariana Dirkzwager 2:24.69 30 1 5 Jessica Humphrey 2:26.07 31 3 9 Ganga Senavirathne 2:29.23 32 1 3 Aynura Primova 2:33.02

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:20.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Claire Curzan 2:07.01 Q 2 1 4 Jaclyn Barclay 2:08.85 Q 3 1 5 Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy 2:09.42 Q 4 2 3 Anastasiya Shkurdai    Neutral Independent Athletes 2:09.76 Q 5 2 5 Gabriela Georgieva 2:09.95 Q, NR 6 2 6 Laura Bernat 2:10.00 Q 7 1 3 Dóra Molnár 2:10.31 Q 8 2 7 Freya Colbert 2:10.67 Q 9 2 2 Anastasia Gorbenko 2:10.94 10 2 1 Lilla Bognar 2:11.26 11 1 7 África Zamorano 2:11.44 12 1 6 Adela Piskorska 2:11.57 13 1 1 Ingrid Wilm 2:11.88 14 1 2 Sun Mingxia 2:12.07 15 1 8 Hannah Pearse 2:13.29 16 2 8 Cindy Cheung 2:13.85

Final The final was held on 17 February at 19:16.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Claire Curzan 2:05.77 5 Jaclyn Barclay 2:07.03 6 Anastasiya Shkurdai    Neutral Independent Athletes 2:09.08 4 3 Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy 2:09.76 5 7 Laura Bernat 2:09.92 6 2 Gabriela Georgieva 2:10.11 7 1 Dóra Molnár 2:11.01 8 8 Freya Colbert 2:11.22

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