Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Competitors	54 from 46 nations
Winning time	2:06.12 WR
Medalists
Anton Chupkov    Russia   Matthew Wilson    Australia   Ippei Watanabe    Japan
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The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.^[1][2]

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

World record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:06.67	Tokyo, Japan	29 January 2017
Competition record	Anton Chupkov (RUS)	2:06.96	Budapest, Hungary	28 July 2017

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
25 July	Semifinal 1	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.83	CR
	Semifinal 2	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:06.67	=WR
26 July	Final	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.12	WR

The heats were held on 25 July at 11:08.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:07.29	Q
2	6	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:08.22	Q
3	5	3	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.70	Q
4	4	2	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.87	Q
5	4	5	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:09.05	Q
5	6	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:09.05	Q
7	5	2	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:09.39	Q
8	6	6	Andrew Wilson	United States	2:09.61	Q
9	5	4	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:09.68	Q
9	6	5	Josh Prenot	United States	2:09.68	Q
11	6	7	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.72	Q
12	4	3	Qin Haiyang	China	2:09.86	Q
13	5	5	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:09.90	Q
14	4	6	Kazuki Kohinata	Japan	2:09.92	Q
15	4	8	Mykyta Koptyelov	Ukraine	2:09.94	Q
16	6	0	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.32	Q
17	4	1	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:10.61
18	5	8	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.65
19	5	0	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:10.66
20	5	7	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.77
21	5	6	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.88
22	4	7	Zhang Ruixuan	China	2:10.89
23	6	1	Maximilian Pilger	Germany	2:11.35
24	3	5	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:11.65	NR
25	3	7	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:11.78	NR
26	6	2	Aleksandr Palatov	Russia	2:12.06
27	5	9	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	2:12.19
28	3	4	Valentin Bayer	Austria	2:12.27
29	4	0	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:12.83
30	6	9	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea	2:13.48
31	4	9	Berkay-Ömer Öğretir	Turkey	2:13.62
32	3	2	Alaric Basson	South Africa	2:13.73
33	6	8	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:13.80
34	3	1	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:13.97
35	2	7	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan	2:14.82	NR
36	3	9	Phạm Thanh Bào	Vietnam	2:14.90
37	2	6	Cai Bing-rong	Chinese Taipei	2:15.18
38	3	0	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:15.48
39	2	2	Gabriel Mastromatteo	Canada	2:15.61
40	3	8	Carlos Mahecha	Colombia	2:15.68
41	3	6	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	2:15.91
42	2	4	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:17.07
43	2	3	Michael Ng	Hong Kong	2:17.41
44	2	9	Adriel Sanes	Virgin Islands	2:17.57
45	3	3	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:17.79
46	2	1	Taichi Vakasama	Fiji	2:18.23
47	1	3	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	2:18.64
48	1	4	Liam Davis	Zimbabwe	2:20.33	NR
49	2	8	Josué Dominguez	Dominican Republic	2:23.21
50	2	0	Tasi Limtiaco	Micronesia	2:23.26
51	1	5	Arnoldo Herrera	Costa Rica	2:25.70
52	1	6	Shuvam Shrestha	Nepal	2:38.79
	2	5	Miguel Chávez	Mexico	DSQ
	5	1	Caio Pumputis	Brazil

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 20:44.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.83	Q
2	6	Andrew Wilson	United States	2:07.86	Q
3	5	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.00	Q
4	1	Kazuki Kohinata	Japan	2:08.42
5	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.51
6	2	Josh Prenot	United States	2:08.77
7	7	Qin Haiyang	China	2:09.11
8	8	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.68

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:06.67	Q, =WR
2	3	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:07.95	Q
3	2	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:08.04	Q
4	7	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:08.19	Q
5	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.28	Q
6	6	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:08.48	NR
7	1	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:08.52
8	8	Mykyta Koptyelov	Ukraine	2:09.96

The final was held on 26 July at 21:26.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.12	WR
	4	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:06.68
	7	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:06.73
4	6	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:07.36
5	8	Marco Koch	Germany	2:07.60
6	3	Andrew Wilson	United States	2:08.10
7	1	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:08.25
8	2	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.39