Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals); 28 July (final)
Competitors	40 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:06.96
Medalists

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:06.67	Tokyo, Japan	29 January 2017
Competition record	Dániel Gyurta (HUN)	2:07.23	Barcelona, Spain	2 August 2013

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Semifinal	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:07.14	CR
28 July	Final	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.96	CR

The heats were held on 27 July at 10:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:08.23	Q
2	3	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.98	Q
3	4	4	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:09.30	Q
4	4	6	Qin Haiyang	China	2:09.39	Q, WJ
5	3	4	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:09.47	Q
6	3	6	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:09.86	Q
7	5	6	Nic Fink	United States	2:09.90	Q
8	5	2	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:09.98	Q
9	4	2	Mao Feilian	China	2:10.01	Q
10	5	5	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:10.18	Q
11	3	5	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.21	Q
12	5	4	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:10.38	Q
13	5	3	Marco Koch	Germany	2:10.40	Q
14	4	3	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:10.43	Q
15	3	7	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:11.00	Q
15	4	8	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:11.00	Q, NR
17	3	2	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:11.28
18	5	7	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:11.51
19	5	1	Carlos Claverie	Venezuela	2:11.71
20	3	1	Nicholas Quinn	Ireland	2:12.15
21	5	8	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:12.37
22	4	7	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:12.66
23	5	0	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:13.35
24	4	9	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	2:13.46
25	4	0	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:13.61
26	4	1	Thiago Simon	Brazil	2:14.23
27	3	8	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:14.87
28	2	7	Chao Man Hou	Macau	2:15.41
29	2	4	Lee Hsuan-yen	Chinese Taipei	2:15.94
30	3	9	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:16.86
31	2	6	Youssef El-Kamash	Egypt	2:17.43
32	2	2	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:18.43
33	5	9	Kim Jae-youn	South Korea	2:18.65
34	3	0	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:19.05
35	2	1	Adriel Sanes	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:20.92
36	2	0	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan	2:23.09
37	2	8	Arnoldo Herrera	Costa Rica	2:24.57
38	1	3	Santiago Saint-Upery	Uruguay	2:26.35
39	1	4	Felipe Gomes	Malawi	2:28.94
40	1	5	Otto Borgards	El Salvador	2:30.73
	2	3	Wassim Elloumi	Tunisia	DNS
	2	5	Ayrton Sweeney	South Africa	DNS

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 18:14.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:07.72	Q
2	7	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:07.80	Q
3	1	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:08.58	Q
4	6	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:08.64	Q
5	3	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:08.95
6	2	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.69
7	5	Qin Haiyang	China	2:10.14
8	8	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:12.19

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:07.14	Q, CR, ER
2	5	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:07.44	Q
3	3	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:08.40	Q
4	6	Nic Fink	United States	2:08.80	Q
5	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:09.58
6	1	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.61
7	2	Mao Feilian	China	2:09.63
8	8	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:09.94	NR

The final was held on 28 July at 18:55.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.96	CR, ER
	6	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:07.29
	5	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:07.47
4	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.12
5	8	Nic Fink	United States	2:08.56
6	2	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:08.68
7	7	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:09.18
8	1	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:10.37

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