Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 28, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 29, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	57
Nations:	48
Win Value:	2:08.41
Gold:	Dániel Gyurta
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Kosuke Kitajima
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronze:	Christian vom Lehn
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 with the final.

Records

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

Results

Heats

55 swimmers participated in 8 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	2	2:10.33	Q
2	8	5	2:10.67	Q
3	8	3	2:10.77	Q
4	6	4	2:10.78	Q
5	7	3	2:11.06	Q
6	7	4	2:11.17	Q
7	6	8	2:11.51	Q
8	7	6	2:11.59	Q
9	6	3	2:11.86	Q
10	5	7	2:12.38	Q
11	8	2	2:12.54	Q
12	6	2	2:12.56	Q
13	6	6	2:12.69	Q
14	6	7	2:12.69	Q
15	8	4	2:12.73	Q
16	8	7	2:12.78	Q
17	8	8	2:13.02
18	7	7	2:13.13
19	5	4	2:13.17
20	8	1	2:13.18
21	7	5	2:13.51
22	7	1	2:13.54
23	8	6	2:13.56
24	5	6	2:13.75
25	5	1	2:13.84
26	6	1	2:13.90
27	5	5	2:14.36
28	4	6	2:14.68
29	4	5	2:14.86
30	7	2	2:14.99
31	4	1	2:15.41	NR
32	5	3	2:15.45
33	7	8	2:15.70
34	3	3	2:16.53
35	4	4	2:16.67
36	3	4	2:17.38
37	4	7	2:18.32
38	3	7	2:18.42
39	4	2	2:18.65
40	4	3	2:18.72
41	4	8	2:18.89
42	3	2	2:19.71
43	3	5	2:21.51
44	3	8	2:21.65	NR
45	3	6	2:22.82
46	2	3	2:23.35
47	2	4	2:23.78
48	3	1	2:23.96
49	2	5	2:24.60
50	2	7	2:27.08
51	2	6	2:27.21
52	1	5	2:28.21
53	1	4	2:30.78
54	2	2	2:30.98
55	1	3	2:35.35
–	5	8		DNS
–	6	5		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:56.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	2:08.81	Q
2	5	2:08.92	Q
3	4	2:09.44	Q
4	6	2:10.49	Q
5	1	2:11.27	Q
6	2	2:11.68
7	8	2:12.07
8	7	2:12.23

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	2:10.03	Q
2	3	2:10.54	Q
3	4	2:11.43	Q
4	6	2:11.63
5	1	2:11.72
6	8	2:11.98
7	2	2:12.15
8	7	2:12.32

Final

The final was held at 19:33.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	5	2:08.41
	4	2:08.63
	3	2:09.06
4	6	2:09.28
5	7	2:10.67
6	8	2:11.07
7	1	2:11.17	NR
8	2	2:11.29

External links

2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120522224351/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_125_Heat1_Men_200_Breast.pdf. 2012-05-22.