2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke
# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 December 2021.

## Records

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

| World record | Kaylee McKeown (AUS) | 1:58.94 | Brisbane, Australia | 28 November 2020 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition record | Katinka Hosszú (HUN) | 1:59.23 | Doha, Qatar | 5 December 2014 |

## Results

### Heats

The heats were started at 10:49.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | 2 | Isabelle Stadden | United States | 2:03.26 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 6 | Rhyan White | United States | 2:04.08 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Margherita Panziera | Italy | 2:04.58 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Kylie Masse | Canada | 2:04.79 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Belarus | 2:04.98 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | Peng Xuwei | China | 2:05.12 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Kira Toussaint | Netherlands | 2:05.27 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 2:05.36 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Ekaterina Avramova | Turkey | 2:06.00 | |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy | Hungary | 2:06.13 | |
| 11 | 2 | 3 | Katie Shanahan | Great Britain | 2:06.24 | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Liu Yaxin | China | 2:06.29 | |
| 13 | 1 | 5 | Daria Ustinova | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:06.32 | |
| 14 | 3 | 3 | Lena Grabowski | Austria | 2:08.39 | |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Gabriela Georgieva | Bulgaria | 2:08.52 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Andrea Becali | Cuba | 2:12.01 | NR |
| 17 | 2 | 8 | Elizabeth Jiménez | Dominican Republic | 2:14.23 | |
| 18 | 1 | 7 | Florencia Perotti | Argentina | 2:14.36 | |
| 19 | 2 | 1 | Elisabeth Erlendsdóttir | Faroe Islands | 2:14.55 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Nicole Frank | Uruguay | 2:15.71 | |
| 21 | 3 | 7 | Tamara Potocká | Slovakia | 2:16.59 | |
| 22 | 1 | 8 | Samantha van Vuure | Curaçao | 2:22.82 | |
| 23 | 3 | 0 | Chrysoula Karamanou | Cyprus | 2:23.48 | |
| 24 | 1 | 0 | Leilaa Al-Khatib | United Arab Emirates | 2:26.27 | |
| 25 | 2 | 0 | Aishath Sausan | Maldives | 2:43.61 | |
| | 1 | 6 | Hanna Rosvall | Sweden | DNS | |
| | 3 | 1 | Nina Kost | Switzerland | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:23.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 5 | Rhyan White | United States | 2:01.58 | |
| | 6 | Kylie Masse | Canada | 2:02.07 | |
| | 4 | Isabelle Stadden | United States | 2:02.20 | |
| 4 | 7 | Peng Xuwei | China | 2:03.00 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | Margherita Panziera | Italy | 2:03.20 | |
| 6 | 2 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | Belarus | 2:03.26 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kira Toussaint | Netherlands | 2:04.74 | |
| 8 | 8 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 2:06.57 | |
