The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordChampionship recordSarah Sjöström1:50.78Doha7 December 2014

Results Heats The heats were held at 10:16.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 4 Katinka Hosszú 1:53.07 Q 2 9 7 Mallory Comerford 1:53.71 Q 3 9 4 Federica Pellegrini 1:54.10 Q 4 8 8 Taylor Ruck 1:54.26 Q 5 7 4 Veronika Popova 1:54.32 Q 6 8 3 Katerine Savard 1:54.81 Q 7 7 3 Leah Smith 1:54.93 Q 8 8 5 Manuella Lyrio 1:55.19 Q 9 9 5 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 1:55.76 10 9 8 Chihiro Igarashi 1:55.92 11 7 6 Shen Duo 1:56.06 12 9 2 Tomomi Aoki 1:56.08 13 8 6 Larissa Oliveira 1:56.15 14 9 3 Ai Yanhan 1:56.33 15 8 7 Reva Foos 1:56.41 16 9 1 Signe Bro 1:56.52 17 8 2 Marrit Steenbergen 1:56.59 18 9 0 Maria Ugolkova 1:56.65 19 7 5 Carla Buchanan 1:56.73 20 9 6 Daria Mullakaeva 1:56.96 21 7 1 Jemma Schlicht 1:57.18 22 8 1 Sharon van Rouwendaal 1:57.47 23 7 8 Sze Hang Yu 1:57.59 24 1 6 Georgia Coates 1:57.68 25 8 9 Martina Elhenická 1:58.30 26 7 2 Barbora Seemanová 1:58.62 27 6 6 Delfina Pignatiello 2:00.20 28 6 1 Helena Moreno 2:00.79 29 8 0 Gaja Natlacen 2:00.98 30 6 3 Elisbet Gámez 2:01.08 NR 31 6 4 Anastasia Bogdanovski 2:01.27 32 7 0 Natthanan Junkrajang 2:01.28 33 6 2 Julia Hassler 2:01.48 34 7 9 Monique Olivier 2:01.56 35 5 8 Karen Torrez 2:01.89 36 6 8 Jasmine Alkhaldi 2:01.95 37 9 9 Diana Durães 2:01.97 38 6 7 Jessica Cattaneo 2:02.04 39 5 7 Nejla Karić 2:02.54 40 2 0 Felicity Passon 2:02.89 41 7 7 Isabel Gose 2:03.12 42 6 9 Andrea Cedrón 2:03.30 43 5 1 Lauren Hew 2:03.46 44 5 0 Allyson Ponson 2:03.67 45 6 5 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn 2:04.10 46 4 2 Sara Pastrana 2:04.91 47 4 3 Kelsie Campbell 2:04.93 48 5 3 Marina Chan 2:05.18 49 5 5 Ines Marin 2:05.22 50 5 4 Nicole Rautemberg 2:05.40 51 5 9 Kimiko Raheem 2:05.97 52 4 5 Gabriella Doueihy 2:06.90 53 4 7 Fatima Alkaramova 2:07.07 54 4 1 Rosalee Mira Santa Ana 2:07.20 55 4 6 Malavika Vishwanath 2:07.22 56 6 0 Sara Nysted 2:07.41 57 5 6 Sarah Hadj-Abderrahmane 2:08.33 58 4 4 Lani Cabrera 2:08.44 59 5 2 Arianna Sanna 2:08.50 60 3 4 Ireyra Tamayo Periñan 2:08.81 61 4 8 Rahaf Baqleh 2:10.53 62 3 7 Fernanda Archila 2:10.62 63 3 2 Ani Poghosyan 2:10.64 64 3 6 Jeanne Boutbien 2:10.97 65 2 2 Stefania Piccardo 2:11.99 66 2 7 Sonia Tumiotto 2:12.20 67 3 5 McKayla Treasure 2:12.32 68 3 0 Alison Jackson 2:12.57 69 3 8 Yara Lima 2:12.86 70 2 3 Enkhkhuslen Batbayar 2:12.98 71 2 5 Long Chi Wai 2:13.37 72 3 3 Catharine Cooper Gomez 2:13.89 73 3 9 Choi Weng Tong 2:15.52 74 2 1 Gabriela Hernandez 2:16.55 75 2 6 Tiana Rabarijaona 2:17.31 76 2 8 Diana Basho 2:17.40 77 2 4 Annah Auckburaullee 2:17.75 78 3 1 Sophia Shah 2:19.69 79 1 5 Osisang Chilton 2:20.57 80 2 9 Alesia Neziri 2:24.83 81 1 7 Charissa Panuve 2:26.98 82 1 4 Aminath Shajan 2:30.51 83 1 3 Angel de Jesus 2:31.59 84 1 2 Ruthie Long 2:34.03 4 0 Dara Al-Bakry 4 9 Naomy Grand'Pierre

Final The final was held at 18:39.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Federica Pellegrini 1:51.73 4 Katinka Hosszú 1:52.28 6 Taylor Ruck 1:52.50 WJR, NR 4 2 Veronika Popova 1:53.39 5 5 Mallory Comerford 1:53.79 6 7 Katerine Savard 1:54.21 7 1 Leah Smith 1:54.49 8 8 Manuella Lyrio 1:55.51

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