Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue Foro Italico
Dates30 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
31 July 2009 (final)
Competitors84
Winning time2:07.64
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
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The heats for the men's 200 metre breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July, with the final in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Contents

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World recordFlag of Japan.svg  Kosuke Kitajima  (JPN)2:07.51Tokyo, Japan8 June 2008
Championship recordFlag of Japan.svg  Kosuke Kitajima  (JPN)2:09.42 Barcelona, Spain24 July 2003

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
30 JulyHeat 5 Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania 2:09.28 CR
30 JulyHeat 6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan 2:09.26 CR
30 JulyHeat 7 Henrique Barbosa Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil 2:09.22 CR
30 JulyHeat 8 Loris Facci Flag of Italy.svg Italy 2:08.85 CR
30 JulyHeat 9 Eric Shanteau Flag of the United States.svg United States2:08.55 CR
30 JulySemifinal 1 Christian Sprenger Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:07.31 WR

Results

Heats

RankNameNationalityTimeHeatLaneNotes
1 Eric Shanteau Flag of the United States.svg United States2:08.5594 CR
2 Dániel Gyurta Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:08.7195
3 Loris Facci Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:08.8583 NR
4 Marco Koch Flag of Germany.svg Germany 2:09.0684
5 Henrique Barbosa Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil2:09.2274
6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 2:09.2664
7 Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:09.2858
8 Edoardo Giorgetti Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:09.2987
9 Kristopher Gilchrist Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain2:09.3172 NR
10 Yuta Suenaga Flag of Japan.svg Japan2:09.3385
11 Hugues Duboscq Flag of France.svg France2:09.4593
12 Christian Sprenger Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:09.8278
13 Neil Versfeld Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa2:09.8692 AF
14 Grigory Falko Flag of Russia.svg Russia2:10.2379
15 Igor Borysik Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:10.3977
16 Brenton Rickard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:10.5475
17 Naoya Tomita Flag of Japan.svg Japan2:10.8596
18 Vladislav Polyakov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 2:11.0981
19 Maxim Podoprigora Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:11.1765
20 Chris Christensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:11.4162 NR
21 Richard Webb Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain2:11.7891
22 Paul Kornfeld Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada2:11.8789
23 Valerii Dymo Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:12.0866
24 Johannes Neumann Flag of Germany.svg Germany2:12.1276
25 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2:12.3954 NR
26 Scott Dickens Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada2:12.5788
27 Tales Cerdeira Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil2:12.6273
28 Istvan Mate Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:12.6499
29 William Diering Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa2:12.8482
30 Andrew Bree Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 2:12.9055
31 Laurent Carnol Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 2:13.0067
32 Sandeep Sejwal Flag of India.svg India2:13.2260
33 Alejandro Jacobo Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico2:13.3769 NR
34 Slawomir Wolniak Flag of Poland.svg Poland2:13.8371
35 Tomáš Klobučník Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:14.3352
36 Tom Be'eri Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:14.5990
37 Sławomir Kuczko Flag of Poland.svg Poland2:14.7480
38 Malick Fall Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 2:15.0051
39 Hocine Haciane Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 2:15.3761
40 Gal Nevo Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:15.4943
41 Carlos Almeida Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal2:15.5863
42 Joshua Arreguin Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico2:16.5757
43 Nguyen Huu Viet Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 2:16.8545
44 Zhang Guoying Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China2:17.0768
45 Eetu Karvonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:18.6159
46 Wang Wei-Wen Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2:19.5544
47 Dmitriy Shvetsov Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 2:20.1431
48 Jorge Murillo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 2:20.5353
49 Dmitrii Aleksandrov Flag of Kyrgyzstan (2023).svg  Kyrgyzstan 2:20.6547
50 Wang Shuai Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China2:20.7856
51 Indra Gunawan Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 2:20.8149
52 Tan Jinwen Mark Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:21.4246
53 Wael Koubrousli Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 2:21.6548
54 Daniel Velez Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:22.1938
55 Matthew Charles Smith Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:22.2023
56 Benjamin Guzman Blanco Flag of Chile.svg Chile2:22.2541
57 Ivan Demyanenko Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 2:23.9533
58 Édgar Crespo Flag of Panama.svg  Panama 2:24.0840
59 Agnishwar Jayaprakash Flag of India.svg India2:24.4932
60 Maximilian Siedentopf Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 2:24.7024
61 Ng Jia Hao Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:25.7736
62 Abdulrahman Albader Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait 2:26.1842
63 Juan Guerra Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 2:26.1934
64 Eli Ebenezer Wong Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands 2:26.8339
65 Mubarak Al-Besher Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 2:28.3622
66 Renato Prono Fernandez Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 2:30.1350
67 Rainui Teriipaia Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti 2:30.7537
68 Pedro Luna Llamosas Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 2:31.7630
69 Diguan Pigot Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname 2:32.1526
70 Rafael Alfaro Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 2:32.7425
71 Timur Kartabaev Flag of Kyrgyzstan (2023).svg  Kyrgyzstan 2:33.6935
72 Andrea Agius Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 2:35.0621
73 Hemra Nurmyradov Flag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan 2:36.0020
74 Vincent Perry Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti 2:37.1827
75 Kevin Cheung Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 2:38.3115
76 Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 2:39.4114
77 Pablo Navarrete Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 2:40.5728
78 Serdar Mopyyev Flag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan 2:48.4713
79 Hussain Mubah Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 3:10.5416
Nazih Mezayek Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan DSQ29
Romanos Alyfantis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DSQ70
Melquiades Alvarez Flag of Spain.svg SpainDSQ86
Adam Klein Flag of the United States.svg United StatesDSQ97
Glenn Snyders Flag of New Zealand.svg New ZealandDSQ98

Semifinals

RankNameNationalityTimeHeatLaneNotes
1 Christian Sprenger Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:07.3117 WR
2 Eric Shanteau Flag of the United States.svg United States2:07.4224 AM
3 Brenton Rickard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:07.8918
4 Dániel Gyurta Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:08.0814 ER
5 Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:08.3526
6 Loris Facci Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:08.5025 NR
7 Henrique Barbosa Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil2:08.5623
8 Edoardo Giorgetti Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:08.6316
9 Hugues Duboscq Flag of France.svg France2:09.0027
10 Kristopher Gilchrist Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain2:09.0122 NR
11 Grigory Falko Flag of Russia.svg Russia2:09.3611 NR
12 Marco Koch Flag of Germany.svg Germany2:09.4415
13 Neil Versfeld Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa2:09.6121 AF
14 Yuta Suenaga Flag of Japan.svg Japan2:09.7012
15 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 2:10.1513
16 Igor Borysik Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:10.8228

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeLaneNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Dániel Gyurta Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:07.646 ER
Silver medal icon.svg Eric Shanteau Flag of the United States.svg United States2:07.655
Bronze medal icon.svg Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:07.802 NR
Bronze medal icon.svg Christian Sprenger Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:07.804
5 Brenton Rickard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia2:08.233
6 Edoardo Giorgetti Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:08.868
7 Henrique Barbosa Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil2:09.351
8 Loris Facci Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:10.267

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