2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	8 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	59
Nations:	45
Win Value:	2:01.21 CR
Gold:	Marco Koch
Goldnoc:	GER
Silver:	Andrew Willis
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Mikhail Dorinov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Marco Koch		2:00.44	Berlin	20 November 2016
Championship record	Dániel Gyurta		2:01.35	Istanbul	14 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:27.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4			2:03.69	Q
2	5	4			2:03.88	Q
3	7	5			2:04.19	Q
4	7	6			2:04.52	Q
5	7	3			2:04.63	Q
6	5	5			2:04.69	Q
	6	3				Q
8	5	6			2:04.93	Q
9	6	4			2:04.96
10	5	3			2:05.11
11	7	2			2:05.15
12	6	6			2:05.53
13	5	0			2:05.84	NR
14	5	1			2:06.54
15	6	8			2:06.73
16	7	1			2:06.83	NR
17	6	2			2:07.91
18	6	5			2:08.05
19	7	0			2:08.51
20	6	1			2:09.78
21	6	7			2:09.87
22	5	8			2:11.20
23	4	7			2:11.34
24	7	7			2:11.42
25	6	9			2:11.44
26	5	9			2:11.47
27	7	9			2:12.19
28	4	6			2:12.44	NR
29	6	0			2:12.63	NR
30	3	4			2:12.68	NR
31	4	4			2:13.53
32	4	9			2:14.52
33	7	8			2:14.66
34	2	3			2:15.12
35	3	1			2:15.28
36	3	3			2:15.29	NR
37	3	2			2:15.34
38	3	0			2:15.39	NR
39	3	8			2:15.71
40	3	6			2:16.02	NR
41	4	0			2:16.13
42	1	3			2:16.99
43	3	5			2:17.30
44	2	2			2:17.43	NR
45	2	4			2:17.48
46	3	9			2:17.57	NR
47	2	6			2:18.50	NR
48	1	5			2:19.38
49	2	5			2:21.40
50	2	0			2:21.97
51	2	1			2:22.42	NR
52	2	7			2:22.58	NR
53	4	5			2:22.75
54	4	3			2:24.03
55	2	9			2:29.00	NR
56	2	8			2:33.75	NR
57	1	4			2:34.57	NR
	4	1
	4	8
	3	7
	4	2
	5	2
	5	7

Final

The final was held at 18:30.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:01.21	CR
	5			2:02.71
	3			2:03.09
4	7			2:03.79
5	6			2:03.96
6	8			2:04.83
7	2			2:04.97
8	1			2:05.40

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. Web site: Heats results . 2017-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170703221819/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00020B00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-07-03 . dead .
3. Web site: Final results . 2017-06-17 . 2019-02-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190214141436/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00020B02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .