| Event: | Men's 200m Breaststroke |
| Competition: | 2012 Short Course Worlds |
| Dates: | 14 December (heats and final) |
| Win Value: | 2:01.35 |
| Gold: | Dániel Gyurta |
| Goldnoc: | HUN |
| Silver: | Michael Jamieson |
| Silvernoc: | GBR |
| Bronze: | Viatcheslav Sinkevich |
| Bronzenoc: | RUS |
| Prev: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2014 |
See main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).
The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Dániel Gyurta | align=left | 2:00.67 | 13 December 2009 | |||
| Championship record | align=left | 2:03.12 | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 5 | 2:03.57 | Q | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2:03.64 | Q | ||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 2:03.87 | Q | ||
| 4 | 4 | 3 | 2:03.94 | Q | ||
| 5 | 4 | 5 | 2:03.95 | Q, NR | ||
| 6 | 4 | 4 | 2:04.07 | Q | ||
| 7 | 5 | 3 | 2:04.93 | Q | ||
| 8 | 5 | 4 | 2:06.05 | Q | ||
| 9 | 5 | 5 | 2:06.37 | |||
| 10 | 4 | 6 | 2:07.45 | |||
| 11 | 5 | 2 | 2:07.71 | |||
| 12 | 5 | 6 | 2:07.96 | NR | ||
| 13 | 6 | 8 | 2:08.15 | |||
| 14 | 2 | 9 | 2:08.37 | |||
| 15 | 2 | 0 | 2:09.07 | |||
| 16 | 6 | 3 | 2:09.80 | |||
| 17 | 4 | 2 | 2:09.95 | |||
| 18 | 5 | 7 | 2:10.06 | |||
| 19 | 4 | 7 | 2:10.07 | NR | ||
| 20 | 6 | 8 | 2:10.10 | NR | ||
| 21 | 5 | 1 | 2:10.63 | |||
| 22 | 1 | 1 | 2:10.86 | |||
| 22 | 3 | 3 | 2:10.86 | |||
| 24 | 6 | 7 | 2:12.15 | |||
| 25 | 4 | 1 | 2:12.50 | |||
| 26 | 5 | 8 | 2:12.60 | |||
| 27 | 6 | 1 | 2:13.39 | |||
| 28 | 1 | 6 | 2:14.32 | |||
| 29 | 6 | 0 | 2:14.76 | |||
| 30 | 1 | 3 | 2:15.07 | |||
| 31 | 6 | 9 | 2:16.11 | |||
| 32 | 4 | 0 | 2:16.77 | |||
| 33 | 3 | 5 | 2:16.78 | |||
| 34 | 4 | 8 | 2:16.86 | |||
| 35 | 1 | 5 | 2:17.15 | NR | ||
| 36 | 5 | 9 | 2:17.25 | |||
| 37 | 2 | 8 | 2:17.75 | |||
| 38 | 3 | 4 | 2:17.85 | |||
| 39 | 4 | 9 | 2:18.08 | NR | ||
| 40 | 3 | 7 | 2:21.93 | |||
| 41 | 3 | 0 | 2:23.57 | |||
| 42 | 3 | 6 | 2:24.19 | |||
| 43 | 3 | 9 | 2:26.89 | |||
| 44 | 2 | 4 | 2:28.15 | |||
| 45 | 3 | 8 | 2:28.34 | |||
| 46 | 2 | 5 | 2:35.40 | |||
| 47 | 2 | 6 | 2:40.57 | |||
| 48 | 2 | 2 | 2:41.47 | |||
| 49 | 2 | 3 | 2:50.56 | |||
| 50 | 2 | 1 | 3:05.74 | |||
| 51 | 2 | 7 | 3:08.37 | |||
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 1 | 7 | |||||
| 3 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | 0 | |||||
| 1 | 4 | |||||
| 3 | 1 |
The final was held at 19:36.[2]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |  | 2:01.35 | CR | |||
| 8 |  | 2:03.00 | NR | |||
| 7 |  | 2:03.08 | ||||
| 4 | 4 |  | 2:03.23 | |||
| 5 | 6 | | 2:03.29 | |||
| 6 | 3 |  | 2:03.58 | |||
| 7 | 2 | 2:03.68 | NR | |||
| 8 | 1 | | 2:04.92 |