Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Competitors	44 from 40 nations
Winning time	2:05.48
Medalists
Qin Haiyang    China   Zac Stubblety-Cook    Australia   Matt Fallon    United States
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2023. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[4]

World record	Zac Stubblety-Cook  (AUS)	2:05.95	Adelaide, Australia	19 May 2022
Competition record	Anton Chupkov  (RUS)	2:06.12	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
28 July	Final	Qin Haiyang	China	2:05.48	WR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 27 July at 11:28. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:08.98	Q
2	3	6	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.29	Q
3	5	5	Matt Fallon	United States	2:09.32	Q
4	3	2	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	2:09.66	Q
5	3	4	Qin Haiyang	China	2:09.86	Q
6	4	3	Josh Matheny	United States	2:09.90	Q
7	4	6	Dong Zhihao	China	2:10.06	Q
8	4	5	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:10.11	Q
9	5	6	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:10.29	Q
10	5	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.47	Q
11	3	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.51	Q
11	5	7	Antoine Marc	France	2:10.51	Q
13	4	8	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.76	Q
14	5	2	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:11.00	Q
15	3	5	Shoma Sato	Japan	2:11.03	Q
16	4	9	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:11.71	Q
17	4	7	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	2:11.92
18	2	5	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:12.21
19	3	1	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:12.29
20	3	0	Adam John Chillingworth	Hong Kong	2:12.30
21	2	2	Ron Polonsky	Israel	2:12.34
22	4	2	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:12.40
23	5	1	Greg Butler	Great Britain	2:12.52
24	5	8	Noah De Schryver	Belgium	2:12.63
25	5	9	Berkay Ömer Öğretir	Turkey	2:12.65
26	3	7	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea	2:12.77
27	5	0	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan	2:12.90
28	4	1	Carles Coll Martí	Spain	2:13.09
29	2	3	Joshua Gilbert	New Zealand	2:13.59
30	4	0	Brayden Taivassalo	Canada	2:13.81
31	3	9	Maximillian Wei Ang	Singapore	2:14.63
32	2	6	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:15.95
33	2	7	Tyler Christianson	Panama	2:17.43
34	2	4	Phạm Thanh Bảo	Vietnam	2:17.89
35	2	9	Liam Davis	Zimbabwe	2:18.45
36	2	1	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	2:18.87
37	2	8	Julio Horrego	Honduras	2:20.70
38	2	0	Adriel Sanes	U.S. Virgin Islands	2:22.20
39	1	3	Luis Sebastian Weekes	Barbados	2:22.94
40	1	5	Jonathan Chung Yee	Mauritius	2:23.21
41	1	4	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar	2:24.01
42	1	6	Andrej Stojanovski	North Macedonia	2:25.40
43	1	2	Bransly Dirksz	Aruba	2:28.73
	4	4	Léon Marchand	France	Did not start
	3	8	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	Disqualified

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 20:43. ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:07.27	Q
2	2	3	Qin Haiyang	China	2:07.70	Q
3	2	5	Matt Fallon	United States	2:07.90	Q
4	2	6	Dong Zhihao	China	2:08.47	Q, WJ
5	1	4	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:08.49	Q
6	1	3	Josh Matheny	United States	2:09.04	Q
7	2	2	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:09.19	Q
8	1	6	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:09.50	Q
9	2	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:09.89
10	1	1	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.93
11	1	5	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	2:10.16
12	1	2	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.57
13	1	7	Antoine Marc	France	2:10.66
14	2	8	Shoma Sato	Japan	2:10.72
15	2	1	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:11.28
16	1	8	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:11.95

Final

The final will start on 28 July at 21:24. ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Qin Haiyang	China	2:05.48	WR
	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:06.40
	3	Matt Fallon	United States	2:07.74
4	6	Dong Zhihao	China	2:08.04	WJ
5	2	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:08.42
6	8	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:08.78
7	1	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:09.50
8	7	Josh Matheny	United States	2:10.41

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Retrieved 17 January 2023.
2. "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". swimswam.com. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
3. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023.
4. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023.
5. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023.
6. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023.
7. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023.