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

1973 Keena Rothhammer
1975 Shirley Babashoff
1978 Cynthia Woodhead
1982 Annemarie Verstappen
1986 Heike Friedrich
1991 Hayley Lewis
1994 Franziska van Almsick
1998 Claudia Poll
2001 Giaan Rooney
2003 Alena Popchanka
2005 Solenne Figuès
2007 Laure Manaudou
2009 Federica Pellegrini
2011 Federica Pellegrini