Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	25 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 26 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	40
Win Value:	2 minutes 10.69 seconds
Gold:	Brendan Hansen
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Maxim Podoprigora
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Kosuke Kitajima
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Previous:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place on 25 July, with the final being held on 26 July.^[3]

Records

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

World record		2:10.16	Barcelona, Spain	align=right	29 July 1992
Championship record		2:11.23	Perth, Australia	align=right	11 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:12.26	Q
2	2:13.35	Q
3	2:13.50	Q
4	2:13.56	Q
5	2:13.58	Q
6	2:13.73	Q
7	2:14.33	Q
8	2:14.72	Q
9	2:15.09	Q
10	2:15.62	Q
11	2:15.64	Q
12	2:15.84	Q
13	2:15.95	Q
14	2:16.51	Q
15	2:16.80	Q
16	2:17.09	Q
17	2:17.35
18	2:17.91
19	2:18.73
20	2:18.90
21	2:19.23
22	2:19.78
23	2:20.09
24	2:20.52
25	2:21.85
26	2:22.42
27	2:22.51
28	2:22.94
29	2:23.71
30	2:24.76
31	2:26.70
32	2:27.29
33	2:27.52
34	2:28.72
35	2:31.01
36	2:33.60
37	2:34.76
38	2:36.06
39	2:54.23
40	2:54.65
–	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	2:11.65	Q
2	2:12.21	Q
3	2:12.34	Q
4	2:12.70	Q
5	2:13.13	Q
6	2:13.27	Q
7	2:13.40	Q
8	2:13.75	Q
9	2:14.11
10	2:15.27
11	2:15.32
12	2:15.87
13	2:16.61
14	2:17.02
–	DSQ
–	DSQ

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	2:10.69	CR
	2:11.09
	2:11.21
4	2:11.31
5	2:11.38
6	2:11.51
7	2:12.89
8	2:13.19

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019205413/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay4.html#200BreastM . 19 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041205211023/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay4Final.html#200BreastM . 5 December 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019121403/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsM200breast.html . 19 October 2004 .