World’s Fastest 200m Butterfly – Women’s Long Course

World Record: Zige Liu 2:01.81
Olympic Record: Summer McIntosh 2:03.03 (NEW)
World Junior Record: Summer McIntosh 2:03.03 (NEW)
Commonwealth Record: Jess Schipper 2:03.41

Top 9 All-time Performers:

1. Zige Liu (27.40, 30.60, 32.00, 31.81) 2:01.81
2. Summer McIntosh (27.38, 31.59, 31.73, 32.33) 2:03.03
3. Jess Schipper (28.21, 32.04, 31.98, 31.18) 2:03.41 
4. Regan Smith (27.60, 31.76, 32.14, 32.34) 2:03.84
5. Zhang Yufei (26.92, 31.37, 32.74, 32.83) 2:03.86
6. Liuyang Jiao (28.49, 32.13, 32.13, 31.31) 2:04.06 
7. Mary Descenza (28.79, 31.78, 31.92, 31.65) 2:04.14
8. Katinka Hosszu (28.71, 32.00, 32.07, 31.49) 2:04.27
9. Natsumi Hoshi (28.32, 32.33, 32.05, 31.99) 2:04.69

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The chart below compares the World’s Fastest 200m Butterfly – Women’s Long Course swimmers. Swimmers and coaches can looks at the individual Splits, Stroke Counts and the first 50m split compared to swimmers 50m PB. All swim data has been collected from our team reviewing race footage where possible.

Women's 200m Butterfly - Long Course
	Zige Liu	Summer McIntosh	Jess Schipper	Regan Smith	Zhang Yufei	Liuyang Jiao	Mary Descenza	Katinka Hosszu	Natsumi Hoshi
Height:	5 ft 11 in 181cm	5 ft 8 in 173cm	5 ft 7 in 170cm	5 ft 7 in 171cm	5 ft 9 in 176cm	5 ft 8 in 173cm	5 ft 10 in 178cm	5 ft 9 in 175cm	5 ft 5 in 164cm
Weight:	148 Ib 67kg		132 Ib 60kg	123 Ib 56kg	126lb 57kg	139 Ib 63kg		150 Ib 68kg	119 lb 54kg
Country:	CHN	CAN	AUS	USA	CHN	CHN	USA	HUN	JPN
DOB:	1989-03-31	2006-08-18	1986-11-19	2002-02-09	1998-04-19	1991-08-06	1984-09-17	1989-05-03	1990-08-21
Meet:	11th Chinese National Games	Olympic Games Paris 2024	13th FINA World Championships 2009	Olympic Games Paris 2024	Tokyo Olympics 2020 (2021)	Olympic Games London 2012	13th FINA World Championships 2009	13th FINA World Championships 2009	Japan National Championships 2012
1st 50m Split	27.40	27.38	28.21	27.60	26.92	28.49	28.79	28.71	28.32
Strokes	20	19	19	19		19			20
Split Time:	27.40	27.38	28.21	27.60	26.92	28.49	28.79	28.71	28.32
50m PB:	26.69	27.26	26.47	26.82	25.76	26.09	27.18	26.62	26.89
Time off 50m PB:	0.71	0.12	1.74		1.16	2.40	1.61	2.09	1.43
Percentage of 50m PB:	102.660%	100.440%	106.573%	103.468%	104.503%	109.199%	105.923%	107.851%	105.318%
2nd 50m Split	30.60	31.59	32.04	31.76	31.37	32.13	31.78	32.00	32.33
Strokes	24	23		24		22			24
Split Time:	58.00	58.97	1:00.25	59.36	58.29	1:00.62	1:00.57	1:00.71	1:00.65
3rd 50m Split	32.00	31.73	31.98	32.14	32.74	32.13	31.92	32.07	32.05
Strokes	25	24		23		23			24
Split Time:	1:30.00	1:30.70	1:32.23	1:31.50	1:31.03	1:32.75	1:32.49	1:32.73	1:32.70
4th 50m Split	31.81	32.33	31.18	32.34	32.83	31.31	31.65	31.49	31.99
Strokes	25	25	24	23		23			25
Total time:	2:01.81	2:03.03	2:03.41	2:03.84	2:03.86	2:04.06	2:04.14	2:04.27	2:04.69

Here is Zige Liu’s 200m Butterfly World Record swim to view.

Here is the list of the Women’s 100m Butterfly Long Course.

Note: World’s Fastest 200m Butterfly – Women’s Long Course Update Aug 2024

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