Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Games:	2017 Summer Universiade
Dates:	22 August (heats and semifinals) 23 August (final)
Venue:	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location:	Taipei, Taiwan
Competitors:	50
Nations:	36
Win Value:	2:08.45
Gold:	Andrew Wilson
Gold Nation:	USA
Silver:	Dmitriy Balandin
Silver Nation:	KAZ
Bronze:	Rustam Gadirov
Bronze Nation:	RUS
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 22 and 23 August 2017.^[1]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

The heats were held on 22 August at 9:38.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Andrew Wilson	2:08.37	Q, UR
2	5	4	Mikhail Dorinov	2:10.93	Q
3	7	4	Dmitriy Balandin	2:11.73	Q
4	6	3	Rintaro Okubo	2:11.82	Q
5	7	5	Rustam Gadirov	2:11.86	Q
6	5	6	Yannick Käser	2:12.69	Q
7	6	5	Will Licon	2:13.10	Q
8	7	3	Mamoru Mori	2:13.16	Q
9	7	6	Nicholas Quinn	2:13.54	Q
10	5	3	Flavio Bizzarri	2:13.71	Q
10	7	2	Elijah Wall	2:13.71	Q
12	5	5	Maximilian Pilger	2:13.81	Q
13	7	7	Alex Milligan	2:13.94	Q
14	5	2	Mauro Castillo	2:14.14	Q
15	6	1	George Schroder	2:15.16	Q
16	5	1	Lee Hsuan-yen	2:15.20
17	5	8	Jolann Bovey	2:15.23
18	5	7	Ilya Shymanovich	2:15.30
19	6	2	Kim Jae-youn	2:15.82
20	3	6	Alaric Basson	2:16.19
21	3	1	Arjan Knipping	2:16.20
22	4	3	Darragh Greene	2:16.35
22	6	7	Cai Bing-rong	2:16.35
24	7	8	Johannes Dietrich	2:16.74
25	6	6	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	2:16.79
26	4	1	Raphael Rodrigues	2:16.89
26	4	6	Jacob Garrod	2:16.89
28	6	8	Adam Paulsson	2:17.06
29	3	2	Miikka Ruohoniemi	2:17.22
30	2	5	Chao Man Hou	2:17.48
31	4	8	Teemu Vuorela	2:17.63
32	7	1	Daniils Bobrovs	2:17.67
33	4	5	Andrius Šidlauskas	2:18.67
34	4	2	Oleksandr Karpenko	2:18.82
35	3	7	Felipe Monni	2:19.12
36	4	4	Jorge Murillo	2:19.52
37	2	4	Gerdi Zulfitranto	2:19.66
38	3	4	Marcin Stolarski	2:19.89
39	3	3	Kwok Ka Fai	2:20.04
40	3	5	Aibek Kamzenov	2:20.09
41	4	7	Gabriel Morelli	2:20.39
42	3	8	William Lulek	2:22.84
43	2	3	Jose Galvez	2:24.33
44	2	7	Ayrton Kasemets	2:27.24
45	2	2	Felipe Quiroz	2:27.37
46	2	6	Zandanbal Gunsennorov	2:30.52
47	1	4	Maksim Akavantsev	2:38.25
48	2	1	Rodrigo Guerra	2:39.30
49	2	8	Taveesh Edussuriya	2:50.74
50	1	5	Mohamed Al-Bulushi	4:24.88
	1	3	Matias Pinto

The semifinals were held on 22 August at 19:22.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	Mikhail Dorinov	2:10.31	Q
2	5	Rintaro Okubo	2:11.04	Q
3	3	Yannick Käser	2:12.30	Q
4	6	Mamoru Mori	2:12.38	Q
5	7	Maximilian Pilger	2:12.67
6	2	Elijah Wall	2:13.29
7	1	Mauro Castillo	2:14.87
8	8	Lee Hsuan-yen	2:15.36

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	Rustam Gadirov	2:09.87	Q
2	5	Dmitriy Balandin	2:10.51	Q
2	6	Will Licon	2:10.51	Q
4	4	Andrew Wilson	2:10.73	Q
5	2	Nicholas Quinn	2:12.76
6	1	Alex Milligan	2:13.37
7	7	Flavio Bizzarri	2:14.17
8	8	George Schroder	2:14.42

The final was held on 23 August at 20:00.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	2	Andrew Wilson	2:08.45
	6	Dmitriy Balandin	2:09.70
	4	Rustam Gadirov	2:09.72
4	5	Mikhail Dorinov	2:09.92
5	1	Yannick Käser	2:10.37	NR
6	7	Rintaro Okubo	2:10.72
7	3	Will Licon	2:10.75
8	8	Mamoru Mori	2:12.93