2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:13 December (heats and final)
Competitors:46
Nations:40
Win Value:2:00.16
Gold:Kirill Prigoda
Goldnoc:RUS
Silver:Qin Haiyang
Silvernoc:CHN
Bronze:Marco Koch
Bronzenoc:GER
Prev:2016
Next:2021

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2018.[1]

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World recordMarco Koch2:00.44Berlin20 November 2016
Championship recordMarco Koch2:01.21Windsor8 December 2016

The following new records were set during this competition:

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:05.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 6 2:01.64 Q, NR
2 5 4 2:01.82 Q
3 4 4 2:02.83 Q
4 5 1 2:03.23 Q
5 4 5 2:03.41 Q
6 4 3 2:03.51 Q, NR
7 3 4 2:03.84 Q
8 5 5 2:03.88 Q
9 5 8 2:04.02
10 3 7 2:04.37 NR
11 3 3 2:04.68
12 3 2 2:04.85
5 3
14 3 5 2:05.00
15 4 0 2:05.99 NR
16 5 2 2:06.23
17 4 1 2:06.38
18 4 6 2:07.10
19 3 1 2:07.28
20 3 6 2:07.49
21 2 4 2:07.60 NR
22 2 3 2:07.83
23 4 2 2:08.00
24 4 7 2:08.15
25 3 8 2:08.32 NR
26 5 7 2:08.44
27 2 2 2:08.51
28 3 9 2:08.73
29 2 8 2:09.12
30 5 9 2:09.30
31 4 9 2:10.26
32 2 5 2:10.37
33 5 0 2:11.27
34 3 0 2:11.45
35 4 8 2:11.63
36 2 1 2:11.79 NR
37 1 4 2:13.65
38 1 5 2:13.81 NR
39 2 0 2:13.83 NR
40 2 6 2:13.84 NR
41 2 7 2:16.67
42 2 9 2:17.01
43 1 7 2:19.33 NR
44 1 2 2:22.54
45 1 3 2:23.04
46 1 6 2:23.60

Final

The final was held at 19:00.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
5 2:00.16
4 2:01.15 AS
3 2:01.42
4 2 2:02.18
5 6 2:03.12
6 1 2:03.20
7 8 2:03.72
8 7 2:04.15

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Competition Schedule. Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. 19 December 2018.
  2. Web site: Heats results . 2018-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181215160149/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0103EE01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-15 . dead .
  3. Web site: Final results . 2018-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181213114721/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0103EE04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-13 . dead .