Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200m Breaststroke
Competition:	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	28 July (preliminaries and semifinals), 29 July (final)
Competitors:	65
Nations:	44
Win Value:	2 minutes 09.85 seconds
Gold:	Brendan Hansen
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Mike Brown
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Genki Imamura
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

See main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.

The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the XI FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 28 and 29 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary (morning) and semifinal (evening) heats swam 28 July; the final on 29 July.

Prior to the competition, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:09.04 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on 11 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA;
• CR: 2:09.42 swum by Kosuke Kitajima (Japan) on 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			2:09.85
2			2:11.22
3			2:11.54
4			2:12.42
5			2:12.44
6			2:12.51
7			2:12.62
8			2:12.72

Semifinals

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4			2:10.23	q
2	S1 L5			2:11.26	q
3	S1 L3			2:11.77	q
4	S1 L6			2:12.17	q
5	S2 L3			2:12.20	q
6	S2 L5			2:12.34	q
7	S2 L6			2:12.43	q
8	S2 L4			2:12.50	q
9	S2 L2			2:13.03
10	S1 L1			2:13.56
11	S2 L7			2:14.00
12	S1 L8			2:14.02
13	S1 L7			2:14.68
14	S1 L2			2:14.94
15	S2 L1			2:15.61
16	S2 L8			2:15.80

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L5	Vlad Polyakov		2:12.73	q
2	H7 L4	Brendan Hansen		2:12.74	q
3	H7 L3	Sławomir Kuczko		2:12.76	q
4	H5 L3	Mike Brown		2:12.96	q
5	H6 L3	Grigory Falko		2:13.35	q
6	H5 L4	Genki Imamura		2:13.36	q
7	H5 L6	Loris Facci		2:13.46	q
8	H6 L4	Jim Piper		2:13.47	q
9	H5 L5	Scott Usher		2:13.89	q
10	H6 L7	Igor Borysik		2:14.74	q
11	H7 L2	Daisuke Kimura		2:15.20	q
12	H7 L6	Brenton Rickard		2:15.26	q
13	H7 L1	Jakob Sveinsson		2:15.28	q
14	H6 L5	Dmitry Komornikov		2:15.35	q
15	H5 L7	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov		2:15.65	q
16	H7 L7	Valeriy Dymo		2:15.94	q
17	H4 L4	Mihail Alexandrov		2:16.08
18	H6 L2	Maxim Podoprigora		2:16.33
19	H3 L7	Alexander Dale Oen		2:16.38
20	H6 L6	Richárd Bodor		2:16.82
21	H4 L5	Aleksander Baldin		2:16.83
22	H6 L8	Tom Be'eri		2:16.89
23	H5 L1	Scott Dickens		2:17.28
24	H6 L1	Jiri Jedlicka		2:17.67
25	H3 L4	You Seung-Hun		2:17.89
26	H4 L1	Miguel Molina		2:18.71
26	H5 L2	Martin Gustavsson		2:18.71
28	H3 L1	Alwin de Prins		2:19.11
29	H4 L7	Bradley Ally		2:19.12
30	H5 L8	Wei-Wen Wang		2:19.13
31	H4 L8	Shin Su-Jong		2:20.02
32	H3 L3	Thabang Moeketsane		2:20.38
33	H7 L8	Sofiane Daid		2:20.69
34	H3 L2	Glenn Snyders		2:21.33
34	H4 L3	Andrey Morkovin		2:21.33
36	H4 L6	Hocine Haciane		2:21.98
37	H3 L5	Vorrawuti Aumpiwan		2:23.26
38	H2 L5	Mark Tan		2:23.85
39	H2 L6	M. Akbar Nasution		2:24.07
40	H3 L8	Puneet Rana		2:25.32
41	H2 L4	Herry Yudhianto		2:25.67
42	H2 L3	Leonard Tan		2:28.71
43	H2 L7	Johnny Castillo		2:29.42
44	H3 L6	Maksim Shilov		2:29.57
45	H2 L1	Kevin Hensley		2:30.19
46	H1 L4	Hei Meng Lao		2:30.43
47	H1 L6	Yousuf Alyousuf		2:30.61
48	H1 L8	Youssef Hafdi		2:30.85
49	H2 L2	Alfonso Espinosa		2:31.82
50	H2 L8	Graham Smith		2:32.14
51	H1 L3	Ivane Lekvtadze		2:32.47
52	H1 L5	Chan Wai Ma		2:32.73
53	H1 L7	Amar Shah		2:37.61
54	H1 L2	Chisela Kanchela		2:38.69
-	H1 L1	Aziz Abdul		DQ
-	H4 L2	Ayman Khattab		DNS

References

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.