Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Championship:	Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16 February (heats and semifinals) 17 February (final)
Venue:	Aspire Dome
Location:	Doha, Qatar
Competitors:	32
Nations:	29
Win Value:	2:05.77
Gold:	Claire Curzan
Gold Nation:	USA
Silver:	Jaclyn Barclay
Silver Nation:	AUS
Bronze:	Anastasiya Shkurdai
Prev:	2023
Next:	2025

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.^[1] ^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[3]

The Heats were held on 16 February at 09:52.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	2:10.50	Q
2	2	4	2:10.82	Q
3	2	2	2:10.86	Q
4	4	5	2:10.95	Q
5	4	3	2:11.34	Q
6	3	6	2:11.35	Q
7	3	5	2:11.51	Q
8	2	5	2:11.65	Q
9	3	2	2:11.78	Q
10	4	7	2:11.79	Q
11	3	4	2:12.08	Q
12	4	6	2:12.55	Q
13	2	3	2:12.56	Q
14	2	6	2:12.67	Q
15	4	2	2:13.11	Q
16	3	7	2:13.26	Q
17	2	7	2:13.30
18	3	3	2:13.33
19	3	1	2:14.22
20	4	1	2:14.46
21	4	8	2:15.01
22	2	1	2:17.16
23	2	8	2:17.31
24	2	0	2:18.69
25	3	8	2:20.05
26	4	0	2:20.07
27	3	0	2:20.33
28	4	9	2:21.54
29	1	4	2:24.69
30	1	5	2:26.07
31	3	9	2:29.23
32	1	3	2:33.02

The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:20.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	2:07.01	Q
2	1	4	2:08.85	Q
3	1	5	2:09.42	Q
4	2	3	2:09.76	Q
5	2	5	2:09.95	Q, NR
6	2	6	2:10.00	Q
7	1	3	2:10.31	Q
8	2	7	2:10.67	Q
9	2	2	2:10.94
10	2	1	2:11.26
11	1	7	2:11.44
12	1	6	2:11.57
13	1	1	2:11.88
14	1	2	2:12.07
15	1	8	2:13.29
16	2	8	2:13.85

The final was held on 17 February at 19:16.^[6]

Web site: Schedule. 1 November 2023. 1 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231101033353/https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2023/10/02/ad5051df-a960-47a9-8eef-0beccae7c822/DOHA_2024_SCHEDULES_06.pdf. live.
Web site: Start list. omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. 10 February 2024. 13 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240213170931/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000202EE0101FFFFFFFFFF00.pdf. live.
Web site: Records book. omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. 10 February 2024. 3 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240203115839/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001180000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1F.pdf. live.
Web site: Heats results. omegatiming.com. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240216125146/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000202EE0101FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.
Web site: Semifinals results. omegatiming.com. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240216163422/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000202EE0102FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.
Web site: Final results. omegatiming.com. 17 February 2024. 17 February 2024. 17 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240217162651/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000202EE0104FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.