Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Introduction The heats for the '''women's 200 m breaststroke''' race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July and the final took place in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:'''World record'''    '''2:20.22'''  Beijing, China  15 August 2008'''Championship record'''    '''2:21.72'''  Montreal, Canada  29 July 2005The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 30 July  Heat 6  Annamay Pierse   Canada  2:21.68  '''CR''' 30 July  Semifinal 1  Rebecca Soni   United States  2:20.93  '''CR''' 30 July  Semifinal 2  Annamay Pierse   Canada  2:20.12  '''WR'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Annamay Pierse     2:21.68  6  4  '''CR''' 2  Rebecca Soni     2:22.09  7  4   3  Mirna Jukić     2:22.10  7  5  '''ER''' 4  Nađa Higl     2:23.19  4  7   5  Nanaka Tamura     2:23.22  7  3   6  Rie Kaneto     2:23.50   5  4    6  Martha McCabe     2:23.50  5  5   8  Keri Hehn     2:23.60  7  6   9  Ilaria Scarcella     2:24.20  5  3   10  Rikke Møller-Pedersen     2:24.46  5  9  '''NR''' 11  Jeong Darae     2:25.00  6  7   12  Joline Höstman     2:25.15  7  2  '''NR''' 13  Caroline Ruhnau     2:25.57  7  1   14  Sally Foster     2:26.07  7  7   15  Yuliya Yefimova     2:26.18  6  3  16  Sophie de Ronchi     2:26.45  6  2  17  Marina Garcia     2:26.69  5  2    18  Chiara Boggiatto     2:26.74  7  8  19  Chen Huijia     2:26.82  3  4   20  Sun Ye     2:27.08  5  6  21  Sarah Katsoulis     2:27.32  5  7  22  Sara Nordenstam     2:27.55  6  5  23  Jessica Pengelly     2:27.64  4  4  24  Inna Kapishina     2:27.89  7  0  25  Urte Kazakeviciute     2:28.13  2  3  '''NR''' 26  Petra Chocova     2:28.37  4  9   27  Angeliki Exarchou     2:28.62  6  0   28  Elise Matthysen     2:29.05  5  8   29  Raminta Dvariskyte     2:29.40  3  6  30  Diana Gomes     2:29.80  4  1   31  Anastasia Korotkov     2:30.17  3  1  '''NR''' 32  Patrizia Humplik     2:30.27  6  8   33  Agnieszka Ostrowska     2:30.59  4  3   34  Lia Dekker     2:31.08  6  9   35  Sarra Lajnef     2:31.12  4  2   36  Back Su Yeon     2:31.20  6  1   37  Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir     2:31.39  3  2  '''NR''' 38  Yekaterina Sadovnik     2:31.52  3  8   39  Stacey Tadd     2:32.01  4  0  40  Siow Yi Ting     2:32.09  7  9   41  Fanny Lecluyse     2:32.93  3  5   42  Katheryn Meaklim     2:33.10  4  5   43  Yuliya Banach     2:33.95  4  8   44  Tatiane Sakemi     2:34.11  4  6   45  Valentina Artemyeva     2:34.34  6  1   46  Tanja Šmid     2:37.43  3  7   47  Daniela Victoria     2:37.65  3  0   48  Maxine Heard     2:37.77  2  1  '''NR''' 49  Daniela Lindemeier     2:39.71  2  2  '''NR''' 50  Nibal Yamout     2:43.44  2  5   51  Roanne Ho     2:43.72  2  0   52  Maria Coy     2:44.09  2  6   53  Cheryl Lim     2:44.33  3  9   54  Selma Atic     2:45.00  2  7   55  Chen I-Chuan     2:45.30  2  4   56  Maria Zenoni     2:45.57  2  9  '''NR''' 57  Lei On Kei     2:51.88  2  8   58  Karen Vilorio     2:54.35  1  5   59  Murugaperumal Venpa     3:00.51  1  3  60  Danielle Bernadine Findlay     3:02.16  1  6   61  Aqsa Tariq     3:16.33  1  7   62  Aelia Mehdi     3:31.32  1  1   –  Tea Pikuli     DNS  1  2    –  Dilara Buse Gunaydin     DNS  3  3   –  Hannah Miley     DNS  5  1   –  Stephanie Rasoamanana     DSQ  1  4   –  Carolina Mussi     DSQ  5  0  ===Semifinals=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Annamay Pierse    2:20.12  2  4  '''WR''' 2 Rebecca Soni    2:20.93  1  4   3 Mirna Jukić    2:22.13  2  5   4 Joline Höstman    2:22.24  1  7 '''NR''' 5  Nađa Higl    2:22.28  1  5   6 Martha McCabe     2:22.75  2  6   7  Nanaka Tamura    2:22.83  2  3   8  Rie Kaneto    2:22.92  1  3   9  Keri Hehn     2:23.20  1  6  10  Ilaria Scarcella     2:23.32  2  2  '''NR''' 11  Rikke Moller-Pedersen     2:23.34  1  2 '''NR''' 12  Jeong Darae     2:25.00  2  7   13  Caroline Ruhnau     2:25.36  2  1   14  Yuliya Yefimova     2:26.39  2  8  15  Sally Foster     2:27.03  1  1  16  Sophie de Ronchi     2:28.75  1  8 ===Final=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Lane  Notes   Nađa Higl    2:21.62  2  '''ER'''   Annamay Pierse    2:21.84  4    Mirna Jukić    2:21.97  3  '''NR''' 4  Rebecca Soni    2:22.15  5  5  Rie Kaneto    2:23.03  8  6  Nanaka Tamura   2:23.12 1  7  Martha McCabe    2:23.36 7  8  Joline Höstman    2:23.62  6
References * Final Results* Semifinals Results* Heats Results