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

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
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 WR
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

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	Matthew 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	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	Matthew 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 was held 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	Matthew 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

↑ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
↑ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
↑ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
↑ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
↑ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2023.
↑ "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2023.
↑ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2023.

[1] "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

[2] Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

[3] "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.

[4] "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.

[5] "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2023.

[6] "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2023.

[7] "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2023.

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