Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2022 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22 June (heats and semifinals) 23 June (final)
Venue:	Danube Arena
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Competitors:	44
Nations:	40
Win Value:	2:07.07
Gold:	Zac Stubblety-Cook
Gold Nation:	AUS
Silver:	Yu Hanaguruma
Silver Nation:	JPN
Silver2:	Erik Persson
Silver2 Nation:	SWE
Prev:	2019
Next:	2023

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2022.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The heats were started on 22 June at 09:50.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	2:09.09	Q
2	5	6	2:09.15	Q
3	3	6	2:09.36	Q
4	3	5	2:09.58	Q
5	3	7	2:09.69	Q, NR
6	4	3	2:09.86	Q
7	3	4	2:10.05	Q
8	4	5	2:10.20	Q
9	5	5	2:10.27	Q
10	4	4	2:10.33	Q,
11	4	6	2:10.69	Q
12	4	7	2:10.86	Q
13	5	3	2:11.29	Q
14	5	7	2:11.52	Q
15	5	1	2:11.88	Q
16	3	3	2:11.89	Q
17	3	0	2:11.99	Q, NR
18	3	2	2:12.27
19	3	1	2:12.72
20	4	2	2:13.13
21	2	7	2:13.33
22	5	2	2:13.35
23	2	3	2:13.89
24	2	6	2:13.96
25	3	8	2:14.14
26	5	8	2:14.20
27	2	5	2:15.46
28	2	8	2:16.25
29	5	0	2:17.34
30	4	9	2:17.49
31	2	4	2:18.77
32	2	9	2:19.62
33	2	1	2:19.95
34	3	9	2:20.41
35	1	5	2:21.82
36	1	2	2:23.68
37	1	4	2:24.36
38	2	0	2:24.46
39	1	6	2:25.04
40	1	3	2:26.11
	4	0
	4	1
	4	8
	5	9
	1	7
	2	2

The semifinals were started on 22 June at 18:45.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	2:06.72	Q
2	2	3	2:08.74	Q, NR
3	1	3	2:08.75	Q
4	1	5	2:08.84	Q
5	2	6	2:09.04	Q
6	1	4	2:09.17	Q
7	2	2	2:09.23	Q
8	1	6	2:09.69	Q
9	1	2	2:09.81
10	1	7	2:09.85
11	2	5	2:09.89
12	1	1	2:11.00
13	1	8	2:11.05	NR
14	2	1	2:11.01
15	2	8	2:11.44
–	2	7	Disqualified

The final was held on 23 June at 19:28.^[5]