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.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 2:07.51 Tokyo, Japan 8 June 2008Championship record 2:09.42 Barcelona, Spain 24 July 2003 The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 30 July Heat 5 Giedrius Titenis Lithuania 2:09.28 CR 30 July Heat 6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov Kazakhstan 2:09.26 CR 30 July Heat 7 Henrique Barbosa Brazil 2:09.22 CR 30 July Heat 8 Loris Facci Italy 2:08.85 CR 30 July Heat 9 Eric Shanteau 2:08.55 CR 30 July Semifinal 1 Christian Sprenger Australia 2:07.31 WR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Eric Shanteau 2:08.55 9 4 CR 2 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.71 9 5 3 Loris Facci 2:08.85 8 3 NR 4 Marco Koch Germany 2:09.06 8 4 5 Henrique Barbosa 2:09.22 7 4 6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov 2:09.26 6 4 7 Giedrius Titenis 2:09.28 5 8 8 Edoardo Giorgetti 2:09.29 8 7 9 Kristopher Gilchrist 2:09.31 7 2 NR 10 Yuta Suenaga 2:09.33 8 5 11 Hugues Duboscq 2:09.45 9 3 12 Christian Sprenger 2:09.82 7 8 13 Neil Versfeld 2:09.86 9 2 AF 14 Grigory Falko 2:10.23 7 9 15 Igor Borysik 2:10.39 7 7 16 Brenton Rickard 2:10.54 7 5 17 Naoya Tomita 2:10.85 9 6 18 Vladislav Polyakov 2:11.09 8 1 19 Maxim Podoprigora 2:11.17 6 5 20 Chris Christensen 2:11.41 6 2 NR 21 Richard Webb 2:11.78 9 1 22 Paul Kornfeld 2:11.87 8 9 23 Valerii Dymo 2:12.08 6 6 24 Johannes Neumann 2:12.12 7 6 25 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson 2:12.39 5 4 NR 26 Scott Dickens 2:12.57 8 8 27 Tales Cerdeira 2:12.62 7 3 28 Istvan Mate 2:12.64 9 9 29 William Diering 2:12.84 8 2 30 Andrew Bree 2:12.90 5 5 31 Laurent Carnol 2:13.00 6 7 32 Sandeep Sejwal 2:13.22 6 0 33 Alejandro Jacobo 2:13.37 6 9 NR 34 Slawomir Wolniak 2:13.83 7 1 35 Tomáš Klobučník 2:14.33 5 2 36 Tom Be'eri 2:14.59 9 0 37 Sławomir Kuczko 2:14.74 8 0 38 Malick Fall 2:15.00 5 1 39 Hocine Haciane 2:15.37 6 1 40 Gal Nevo 2:15.49 4 3 41 Carlos Almeida 2:15.58 6 3 42 Joshua Arreguin 2:16.57 5 7 43 Nguyen Huu Viet 2:16.85 4 5 44 Zhang Guoying 2:17.07 6 8 45 Eetu Karvonen 2:18.61 5 9 46 Wang Wei-Wen 2:19.55 4 4 47 Dmitriy Shvetsov 2:20.14 3 1 48 Jorge Murillo 2:20.53 5 3 49 Dmitrii Aleksandrov 2:20.65 4 7 50 Wang Shuai 2:20.78 5 6 51 Indra Gunawan 2:20.81 4 9 52 Tan Jinwen Mark 2:21.42 4 6 53 Wael Koubrousli 2:21.65 4 8 54 Daniel Velez 2:22.19 3 8 55 Matthew Charles Smith 2:22.20 2 3 56 Benjamin Guzman Blanco 2:22.25 4 1 57 Ivan Demyanenko 2:23.95 3 3 58 Édgar Crespo 2:24.08 4 0 59 Agnishwar Jayaprakash 2:24.49 3 2 60 Maximilian Siedentopf 2:24.70 2 4 61 Ng Jia Hao 2:25.77 3 6 62 Abdulrahman Albader 2:26.18 4 2 63 Juan Guerra 2:26.19 3 4 64 Eli Ebenezer Wong 2:26.83 3 9 65 Mubarak Al-Besher 2:28.36 2 2 66 Renato Prono Fernandez 2:30.13 5 0 67 Rainui Teriipaia 2:30.75 3 7 68 Pedro Luna Llamosas 2:31.76 3 0 69 Diguan Pigot 2:32.15 2 6 70 Rafael Alfaro 2:32.74 2 5 71 Timur Kartabaev 2:33.69 3 5 72 Andrea Agius 2:35.06 2 1 73 Hemra Nurmyradov 2:36.00 2 0 74 Vincent Perry 2:37.18 2 7 75 Kevin Cheung 2:38.31 1 5 76 Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai 2:39.41 1 4 77 Pablo Navarrete 2:40.57 2 8 78 Serdar Mopyyev 2:48.47 1 3 79 Hussain Mubah 3:10.54 1 6 – Nazih Mezayek DSQ 2 9 – Romanos Alyfantis DSQ 7 0 – Melquiades Alvarez DSQ 8 6 – Adam Klein DSQ 9 7 – Glenn Snyders DSQ 9 8

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Christian Sprenger 2:07.31 1 7 WR 2 Eric Shanteau 2:07.42 2 4 AM 3 Brenton Rickard 2:07.89 1 8 4 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.08 1 4 ER 5 Giedrius Titenis 2:08.35 2 6 6 Loris Facci 2:08.50 2 5 NR 7 Henrique Barbosa 2:08.56 2 3 8 Edoardo Giorgetti 2:08.63 1 6 9 Hugues Duboscq 2:09.00 2 7 10 Kristopher Gilchrist 2:09.01 2 2 NR 11 Grigory Falko 2:09.36 1 1 NR 12 Marco Koch 2:09.44 1 5 13 Neil Versfeld 2:09.61 2 1 AF 14 Yuta Suenaga 2:09.70 1 2 15 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov 2:10.15 1 3 16 Igor Borysik 2:10.82 2 8

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Dániel Gyurta 2:07.64 6 ER Eric Shanteau 2:07.65 5 Giedrius Titenis 2:07.80 2 NR Christian Sprenger 2:07.80 4 5 Brenton Rickard 2:08.23 3 6 Edoardo Giorgetti 2:08.86 8 7 Henrique Barbosa 2:09.35 1 8 Loris Facci 2:10.26 7

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