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2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming) Singapore, Singapore World Aquatics Championships Arena LCM (50m) Meet Central How To Watch SwimSwam Preview Index Entry Book Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL
World Record: 2:17.55, Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS) – 2023 World Junior Record: 2:19.64, Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes (TUR) – 2015 Championship Record: 2:19.11, Rikke Pedersen (DEN) – 2013 2023 World Champion: Tatjana Smith (RSA), 2:20.80 2024 Olympic Champion: Kate Douglass (USA), 2:19.24 Kate Douglass (USA), 2:18.50 CR Evgeniia Chikunova (NAB), 2:19.96 Kaylene Corbett (RSA) / Alina Zmushka (NAA), 2:23.52 – Angharad Evans (GBR), 2:24.21 Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU), 2:24.25 Ellie McCartney (IRL), 2:25.22 Clara Rybak-Andersen (DEN), 2:25.36Kate Douglass broke her own American Record as well as the Championship Record previously held by Rikee Pedersen as Douglass swam to a 2:18.50 to win gold in the 200 breaststroke. That broke her previous American record of a 2:19.24 that she swam at the Paris Olympics for gold. Pedersen’s Championship Record was a 2:19.11 from the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona.
Split Comparison
Douglass- 2025 Worlds Douglass- 2024 Olympics Pederson- 2013 50 31.51 31.83 31.8 100 35.03 35.26 35.47 150 35.61 35.81 35.62 200 36.35 36.34 36.22 2:18.50 2:19.24 2:19.11Douglass was consistently faster on each of her 50s compared to her time from Paris. The lone exception is she came home 0.01 seconds slower on the final 50. Douglass was also faster than Pederson on the first three 50s.
The swim marks the 4th sub-2:19 swim for the event as Douglass is now the #2 performer ever behind World Record holder Evgeniia Chikunova who notably won silver today.
All-Time Performances, Women’s 200 Breaststroke (LCM)
Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS), 2:17.55 – 2023 Kate Douglass (USA), 2:18.50 – 2025 Tatjana Smith (RSA), 2:18.95 – 2021 Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS), 2:18.98 – 2024 Tatjana Smith (RSA), 2:19.01 – 2024Douglass has been under the 2:20 mark now eight times in her career. The only other Americans to have ever been under 2:20 are Rebecca Soni and Lilly King, who each got under 2:20 once over their careers.
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