Swimming, FINA Aquatics World Championships, 200 metre butterfly - 200 metre butterfly World Champions, women

1973 Rosemarie Kother
1975 Rosemarie Kother
1978 Tracy Caulkins
1982 Ines Geißler
1986 Mary T. Meagher
1991 Summer Sanders
1994 Liu Limin
1998 Susan O'Neill
2001 Petria Thomas
2003 Otylia Jędrzejczak
2005 Otylia Jędrzejczak
2007 Jessicah Schipper
2009 Jessicah Schipper
2011 Jiao Liuyang