The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 with the final.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordChristian Sprenger 2:07.31 RomeJuly 30, 2009

Results

Heats 55 swimmers participated in 8 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 2 Giedrius Titenis 2:10.33 Q 2 8 5 Christian vom Lehn 2:10.67 Q 3 8 3 Eric Shanteau 2:10.77 Q 4 6 4 Dániel Gyurta 2:10.78 Q 5 7 3 Michael Jamieson 2:11.06 Q 6 7 4 Kosuke Kitajima 2:11.17 Q 7 6 8 Michael Brown 2:11.51 Q 8 7 6 Andrew Willis 2:11.59 Q 9 6 3 Melquiades Alvarez 2:11.86 Q 10 5 7 Glenn Snyders 2:12.38 Q 11 8 2 Neil Versfeld 2:12.54 Q 12 6 2 Laurent Carnol 2:12.56 Q 13 6 6 Lennart Stekelenburg 2:12.69 Q 14 6 7 Choi Kyu-Woong 2:12.69 Q 15 8 4 Naoya Tomita 2:12.73 Q 16 8 7 Ákos Molnár 2:12.78 Q 17 8 8 Huang Chaosheng 2:13.02 18 7 7 Elliott Keefer 2:13.13 19 5 4 Igor Borysik 2:13.17 20 8 1 Maksym Shemberev 2:13.18 21 7 5 Brenton Rickard 2:13.51 22 7 1 Xue Ruipeng 2:13.54 23 8 6 Hugues Duboscq 2:13.56 24 5 6 Sławomir Kuczko 2:13.75 25 5 1 Jakob Sveinsson 2:13.84 26 6 1 Craig Calder 2:13.90 27 5 5 Andrew Dickens 2:14.36 28 4 6 Nuttapong Ketin 2:14.68 29 4 5 Carlos Almeida 2:14.86 30 7 2 Anton Lobanov 2:14.99 31 4 1 Jorge Murillo 2:15.41 NR 32 5 3 Hunor Mate 2:15.45 33 7 8 Vladislav Polyakov 2:15.70 34 3 3 Tomáš Klobučník 2:16.53 35 4 4 Mattia Pesce 2:16.67 36 3 4 Édgar Crespo 2:17.38 37 4 7 Sofiane Daid 2:18.32 38 3 7 Irakli Bolkvadze 2:18.42 39 4 2 Martti Aljand 2:18.65 40 4 3 David Oliver Mercado 2:18.72 41 4 8 Indra Gunawan 2:18.89 42 3 2 Azad Al-Barazi 2:19.71 43 3 5 Aleksandrov Dmitrii 2:21.51 44 3 8 Pedro Pinotes 2:21.65 NR 45 3 6 Juan Guerra 2:22.82 46 2 3 Eli Ebenezer Wong 2:23.35 47 2 4 Genaro Britez 2:23.78 48 3 1 Timothy Ferris 2:23.96 49 2 5 Jordy Groters 2:24.60 50 2 7 Wael Koubrousli 2:27.08 51 2 6 Diguan Pigot 2:27.21 52 1 5 Benjamin Schulte 2:28.21 53 1 4 Andrew Rutherfurd 2:30.78 54 2 2 Tarco Liobet 2:30.98 55 1 3 Mamitina Ramanantsoa 2:35.35 – 5 8 Panagiotis Samilidis DNS – 6 5 Alexander Dale Oen DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:56.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Kosuke Kitajima 2:08.81 Q 2 5 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.92 Q 3 4 Christian vom Lehn 2:09.44 Q 4 6 Andrew Willis 2:10.49 Q 5 1 Choi Kyu-Woong 2:11.27 Q 6 2 Glenn Snyders 2:11.68 7 8 Ákos Molnár 2:12.07 8 7 Laurent Carnol 2:12.23

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Eric Shanteau 2:10.03 Q 2 3 Michael Jamieson 2:10.54 Q 3 4 Giedrius Titenis 2:11.43 Q 4 6 Michael Brown 2:11.63 5 1 Lennart Stekelenburg 2:11.72 6 8 Naoya Tomita 2:11.98 7 2 Melquiades Alvarez 2:12.15 8 7 Neil Versfeld 2:12.32

Final The final was held at 19:33. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.41 4 Kosuke Kitajima 2:08.63 3 Christian vom Lehn 2:09.06 4 6 Eric Shanteau 2:09.28 5 7 Michael Jamieson 2:10.67 6 8 Giedrius Titenis 2:11.07 7 1 Choi Kyu-Woong 2:11.17 NR 8 2 Andrew Willis 2:11.29

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.