Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2017 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	27 July (heats and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Venue:	Danube Arena
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Competitors:	40
Nations:	35
Win Value:	2:06.96
Gold:	Anton Chupkov
Gold Nation:	RUS
Silver:	Yasuhiro Koseki
Silver Nation:	JPN
Bronze:	Ippei Watanabe
Bronze Nation:	JPN
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July		align=left		align=left		2:07.14	CR
28 July		align=left		align=left		2:06.96	CR

The heats were held on 27 July at 10:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	5	2:08.23	Q
2	3	3	2:08.98	Q
3	4	4	2:09.30	Q
4	4	6	2:09.39	Q, WJ
5	3	4	2:09.47	Q
6	3	6	2:09.86	Q
7	5	6	2:09.90	Q
8	5	2	2:09.98	Q
9	4	2	2:10.01	Q
10	5	5	2:10.18	Q
11	3	5	2:10.21	Q
12	5	4	2:10.38	Q
13	5	3	2:10.40	Q
14	4	3	2:10.43	Q
15	3	7	2:11.00	Q
15	4	8	2:11.00	Q, NR
17	3	2	2:11.28
18	5	7	2:11.51
19	5	1	2:11.71
20	3	1	2:12.15
21	5	8	2:12.37
22	4	7	2:12.66
23	5	0	2:13.35
24	4	9	2:13.46
25	4	0	2:13.61
26	4	1	2:14.23
27	3	8	2:14.87
28	2	7	2:15.41
29	2	4	2:15.94
30	3	9	2:16.86
31	2	6	2:17.43
32	2	2	2:18.43
33	5	9	2:18.65
34	3	0	2:19.05
35	2	1	2:20.92
36	2	0	2:23.09
37	2	8	2:24.57
38	1	3	2:26.35
39	1	4	2:28.94
40	1	5	2:30.73
	2	3
	2	5

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 18:14.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:07.72	Q
2	7	2:07.80	Q
3	1	2:08.58	Q
4	6	2:08.64	Q
5	3	2:08.95
6	2	2:09.69
7	5	2:10.14
8	8	2:12.19

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:07.14	Q, CR, ER
2	5	2:07.44	Q
3	3	2:08.40	Q
4	6	2:08.80	Q
5	7	2:09.58
6	1	2:09.61
7	2	2:09.63
8	8	2:09.94	NR

The final was held on 28 July at 18:55.^[5]