Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Brendan Hansen (USA)	2:08.50	Victoria, Canada	21 August 2006
Asian Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.42	Barcelona, Spain	24 July 2003
Games Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.97	Busan, South Korea	2 October 2002

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	4	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:15.57
2	2	Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:16.57
3	2	Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:16.78
4	4	Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.81
5	4	Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:18.02
6	3	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:18.36
7	3	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:18.44
8	2	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:19.38
9	3	Chiang Hsin-hung (TPE)	2:19.49
10	1	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:20.72
11	3	Andrey Morkovin (UZB)	2:21.03
12	4	Vorrawuti Aumpiwan (THA)	2:21.39
13	4	Leonard Tan (SIN)	2:22.48
14	3	Gerard Bordado (PHI)	2:23.96
15	2	Nguyễn Hữu Việt (VIE)	2:25.95
16	4	Abdulrahman Al-Bader (KUW)	2:27.90
17	2	Lim Zhi Cong (SIN)	2:28.89
18	3	You Seung-hun (KOR)	2:29.15
19	3	Osama El-Aarag (QAT)	2:31.19
20	3	Wael Koubrousli (LIB)	2:33.35
21	2	Firas Chihade (SYR)	2:33.41
22	4	Lao Hei Meng (MAC)	2:34.10
23	2	Pavel Kuleshov (KGZ)	2:38.38
24	4	Ma Chan Wai (MAC)	2:46.43
25	1	Hassan Ashraf (MDV)	2:54.69
—	1	Guwanç Ataniýazow (TKM)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:12.05
	Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:13.17
	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:13.60
4	Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:14.95
5	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:15.11
6	Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:15.90
7	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:17.89
8	Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.95

• Results