Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | 9 August 2016 (heats & semifinals) 10 August 2016 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 39 from 30 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:07.46 NR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Marathon | ||
10 km | men | women |
The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 9–10 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. [1]
Double Asian Games champion Dmitriy Balandin surprised the field from the outside to become Kazakhstan's first ever gold medalist in swimming. [2] [3] Coming from behind in lane eight, he produced a late surge about the midway of the final leg to upset the pool for an unexpected Olympic triumph with a 2:07.46. [4] [5] U.S. breaststroker Josh Prenot nearly charged to the front at the final stretch, before fading to a runner-up finish in 2:07.53, seven-hundredths of a second behind the Kazakh. [6] Meanwhile, Russia's Anton Chupkov claimed the final podium spot, putting up a time of 2:07.70. [7]
Great Britain's Andrew Willis improved upon his eighth-place feat from London 2012 to finish fourth with a 2:07.78, narrowly missing on a podium by eight-hundredths of a second. [8] Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki seized a comfortable lead throughout the majority of the race but slipped down the order on the home stretch to finish fifth in 2:07.80. [9] Koseki's teammate Ippei Watanabe posted a sixth-place time in 2:07.87, while defending World Champion Marco Koch of Germany (2:08.00) and Prenot's fellow countryman Kevin Cordes (2:08.34) rounded out the top eight. [7]
Earlier in the semifinals, Watanabe threw down a top-seeded time of 2:07.22 to slice 0.06 seconds off the existing Olympic record set by Hungary's defending champion Dániel Gyurta, who had narrowly missed the top sixteen field in the heats. [10] [11]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN) | 2:07.01 | Gifu, Japan | 15 September 2012 | [12] [13] |
Olympic record | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:07.28 | London, United Kingdom | 1 August 2012 | [14] |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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9 August | Semifinal 1 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.22 | OR |
The competition consisted of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round. [1]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 6 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.22 | Q, OR |
2 | 2 | Josh Prenot | United States | 2:07.78 | Q |
3 | 4 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:07.91 | Q |
4 | 3 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:08.20 | Q |
5 | 5 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:09.73 | |
6 | 7 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:10.12 | |
7 | 8 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:11.53 | |
8 | 1 | Carlos Claverie | Venezuela | 2:11.56 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 5 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:07.73 | Q |
2 | 6 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:07.99 | Q |
3 | 4 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:08.08 | Q |
4 | 3 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.12 | Q |
5 | 2 | Mao Feilian | China | 2:09.64 | |
6 | 1 | Li Xiang | China | 2:10.92 | |
7 | 8 | Craig Benson | Great Britain | 2:10.93 | |
8 | 7 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:12.99 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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8 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:07.46 | NR | |
3 | Josh Prenot | United States | 2:07.53 | ||
7 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:07.70 | NR | |
4 | 5 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:07.78 | |
5 | 6 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:07.80 | |
6 | 4 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.87 | |
7 | 1 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.00 | |
8 | 2 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:08.34 |
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