2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	32 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:00.35
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2022.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Kirill Prigoda (RUS)	2:00.16	Hangzhou, China	13 December 2018
Competition record	Kirill Prigoda (RUS)	2:00.16	Hangzhou, China	13 December 2018

The heats were started at 11:39.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	2:02.43	Q
2	5	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:02.75	Q
3	4	4	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:03.64	Q
4	4	5	Qin Haiyang	China	2:03.81	Q
5	3	6	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:03.93	Q, NR
6	3	4	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:04.01	Q
7	5	6	Marco Koch	Germany	2:04.08	Q
8	3	5	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	2:04.37	Q
9	4	6	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:04.57	NR
10	5	3	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:04.99
11	4	3	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:05.14
12	3	3	Charlie Swanson	United States	2:05.51
13	2	3	James Dergousoff	Canada	2:06.17
14	4	1	Adam Chillingworth	Hong Kong	2:06.46	NR
15	4	2	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:06.62
16	5	8	David Schlicht	Australia	2:06.72
17	5	1	Berkay Ogretir	Turkey	2:07.12
18	1	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	2:07.31
19	3	8	Maximillian Ang	Singapore	2:08.12	NR
20	4	8	Josh Gilbert	New Zealand	2:08.27
21	5	2	Andrius Sidlauskas	Lithuania	2:08.69
22	3	1	Christoffer Haarsaker	Norway	2:08.80
23	2	1	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:08.91
24	2	2	Kian Keylock	South Africa	2:11.20
25	2	5	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:11.37
26	2	8	Cai Bing-rong	Chinese Taipei	2:11.66
27	2	7	Adriel Sanes	United States Virgin Islands	2:12.69
28	2	4	Jonathan Cook	Philippines	2:12.91
29	1	5	Liam Davis	Zimbabwe	2:13.99
	1	3	Mohammed Al-Maher	Saudi Arabia	Disqualified
	3	2	Carl Aitkaci	France
	3	7	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia
	2	6	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	Did not start
	4	7	Carles Coll	Spain
	5	7	Sun Jiajun	China

The final was held at 19:51.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	2:00.35	AS
	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:01.60	AM
	6	Qin Haiyang	China	2:02.22
4	3	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:02.53
5	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:03.19
6	2	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:03.33	NR
7	1	Marco Koch	Germany	2:05.01
	8	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	Disqualified