| Women 200m Breaststroke V Swimming World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Monday, 18th August - Gold Medal: Silke Hoerner, East Germany | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | Ag | pts |  | 1. Silke Horner |   East Germany | 2:27.40 | WR |   | 5 | 20 | 908 |  | 2. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova |   Bulgaria | 2:27.66 |   | +0.26s | 4 | 22 | 903 |  | 3. Allison Higson |   Canada | 2:31.34 |   | +3.94s | 6 | 13 | 839 |  | 4. Sylvia Gerasch |   East Germany | 2:32.06 |   | +4.66s | 1 | 17 | 827 |  | 5. Cindy Ounpuu |   Canada | 2:32.32 |   | +4.92s | 8 |   | 823 |  | 6. Susan Rapp |   United States | 2:32.48 |   | +5.08s | 7 | 21 | 820 |  | 7. Ingrid Lempereur |   Belgium | 2:32.50 |   | +5.10s | 3 | 17 | 820 |  | 8. Manuela Dalla Valle |   Italy | 2:33.83 |   | +6.43s | 2 | 23 | 799 |   
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| Final B |   | time |   | gap | L | Ag |  | 9. Jenny Hau |   United States | 2:33.63 |   |   | 4 |   |  | 10.Hiroko Nagasaki |   Japan | 2:35.45 |   | +1.82s | 5 | 18 |  | 11.Britta Dahm |   West Germany | 2:36.34 |   | +2.71s | 3 | 17 |  | 12.Petra Van Staveren |   Netherlands | 2:36.54 |   | +2.91s | 2 | 20 |  | 13.Pascaline Louvrier |   France | 2:36.59 |   | +2.96s | 6 | 14 |  | 14.Susannah Brownsdon |   Great Britain | 2:37.34 |   | +3.71s | 1 | 20 |  | 15.Yelena Volkova |   Soviet Union | 2:38.12 |   | +4.49s | 7 | 18 |  | 16.Anna Rosengren |   Sweden | 2:39.56 |   | +5.93s | 8 | 26 |   
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Heats - Monday, 18th August | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. | 
| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 7. Cindy Ounpuu |   Canada | 2:34.29 |   | +2.77s | - |   | 1.  |  | 8. Sylvia Gerasch |   East Germany | 2:34.31 |   | +2.79s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 10.Hiroko Nagasaki |   Japan | 2:35.41 |   | +3.89s | - | 18 | 3.  |  | 12.Pascaline Louvrier |   France | 2:37.15 |   | +5.63s | - | 14 | 4.  |  | 15.Anna Rosengren |   Sweden | 2:37.85 |   | +6.33s | - | 26 | 5.  |  | 19.Alicia Maria Boscatto |   Argentina | 2:39.62 |   | +8.10s | - | 26 | 6.  |  | 27.Maria Santalo |   Finland | 2:47.29 |   | +15.77s | - |   | 7.  |  | 28.Paula Lamego |   Portugal | 2:51.08 |   | +19.56s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 1. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova |   Bulgaria | 2:31.52 |   |   | - | 22 | 1.  |  | 4. Allison Higson |   Canada | 2:33.36 |   | +1.84s | - | 13 | 2.  |  | 9. Jenny Hau |   United States | 2:34.63 |   | +3.11s | - |   | 3.  |  | 11.Britta Dahm |   West Germany | 2:36.54 |   | +5.02s | - | 17 | 4.  |  | 20.Petra Hillenius |   Netherlands | 2:40.13 |   | +8.61s | - | 18 | 5.  |  | 21.Helena Kalvehed |   Sweden | 2:41.26 |   | +9.74s | - | 18 | 6.  |  | 23.Silvia Parera |   Spain | 2:44.05 |   | +12.53s | - | 16 | 7.  |  | 29.Georgia Mauri |   Costa Rica | 2:53.75 |   | +22.23s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 2. Silke Horner |   East Germany | 2:32.60 |   | +1.08s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 3. Ingrid Lempereur |   Belgium | 2:33.00 |   | +1.48s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 5. Manuela Dalla Valle |   Italy | 2:33.63 |   | +2.11s | - | 23 | 3.  |  | 17.Helene Bjornstadt |   Norway | 2:38.21 |   | +6.69s | - |   | 4.  |  | 22.Franzi Nydegger |   Switzerland | 2:41.60 |   | +10.08s | - |   | 5.  |  | 25.Sigrid Niehaus |   Costa Rica | 2:44.95 |   | +13.43s | - | 21 | 6.  |  | 30.Kathy L Ruiz |   Puerto Rico | 2:54.03 |   | +22.51s | - |   | 7.  |  | -. Souad Debbiche |   Tunisia | DSQ |   |   | - |   |   |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 6. Susan Rapp |   United States | 2:33.94 |   | +2.42s | - | 21 | 1. |  | 13.Petra Van Staveren |   Netherlands | 2:37.40 |   | +5.88s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 14.Yelena Volkova |   Soviet Union | 2:37.71 |   | +6.19s | - | 18 | 3. |  | 16.Susannah Brownsdon |   Great Britain | 2:38.02 |   | +6.50s | - | 20 | 4. |  | 18.Ute Hasse |   West Germany | 2:39.36 |   | +7.84s | - | 22 | 5.  |  | 24.Georgiana Magalhaes |   Brazil | 2:44.84 |   | +13.32s | - |   | 6.  |  | 26.Ragnheildur Runolfsdottir |   Iceland | 2:45.07 |   | +13.55s | - | 19 | 7.  |   
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